Modernization
VA Launches VITAL Training Ahead of First Electronic Health Records Rollout
Veterans Affairs officials learned some lessons from their Defense Department counterparts and developed an immersive training program focused on how the new EHR system can fix issues clinicians encounter every day.
Ideas
Agencies to Security Industry: Automate Cloud Compliance Faster
Cloud providers also want faster, more efficient FedRAMP compliance, and today, this is well in reach.
Ideas
How Congress Turns Citizens' Voices into Data Points
No matter why or how people contact their elected officials, they all want one basic thing: They want someone to listen.
Modernization
Treasury floats $1B cloud buy
The Department of Treasury has released a new acquisition road map designed to shepherd the IRS into the cloud era while emphasizing buying to support shared services.
Modernization
Can AI decide if work is 'inherently governmental?'
The Department of Health and Human Services is using a recurrent network to get smarter about its acquisition efforts.
Ideas
I Won’t Buy My Teenagers Smartphones
Denying a teen a smartphone in 2019 is a tough decision, and one that requires an organized and impenetrable defense.
Emerging Tech
Interior Expects to More Than Triple Drone Flights by 2025
Unmanned aircraft offer the department a cheaper, faster and safer way to conduct operations across 500 million acres of federal lands.
Digital Government
Rep. Will Hurd Highlights Plans For Final 14 Months in Congress
The Texas congressman laid out his priorities with humor and passion at a summit in Washington this week.
Modernization
GSA Answers 105 Questions About Transition From DUNS To Unique IDs
By the end of next year, all organizations working with the government will have a new identifier. This major shift has generated some questions, which GSA is trying to answer.
Modernization
Feds Look to Application Programming Interfaces as Gateways to Modernization
The technology can boost partnerships and lead to new solutions across federal agencies.
Modernization
GSA Awards First Task Orders Under $2.5 Billion Payroll Modernization Contract
Under the orders, Carahsoft Technology Corporation and Grant Thornton will roll out commercial payroll systems that would be available for all civilian agencies.
Digital Government
The Pentagon Needs to Make More Software Open Source, Watchdog Says
The White House in 2016 required every agency to make at least 20 percent of its custom software available for reuse across the government, but the Pentagon isn’t even halfway there, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Digital Government
OMB Finalizes Long-Awaited Update to Internet Connection Policy
But practitioners will have to wait a few months more for the final use cases on which the policy is based.
Modernization
Twin shared-spectrum efforts close in on milestones
Two trailblazing efforts backed by DARPA and the FCC to share radio spectrum among federal and commercial users will hit significant milestones in the coming weeks.
Modernization
GSA makes first orders on payroll shared service BPA
GSA issued about $10 million in task orders for shared payroll services under its NewPay initiative.
Emerging Tech
Device Offers a Way to Communicate During Disasters
A new tool called “Panacea’s Cloud” could give first responders a way to communicate during a natural or human-made disaster when devices such as cell phones may not work.
Modernization
Inside Defense Digital Service’s User-Centered Approach
Designing with users—not for them—has been a key to the agency’s innovative success.
Modernization
Who defends the Internet?
Much of the underlying architecture that powers the internet is under increasing threat -- and it's not clear who in government or industry can or should take the lead to protect it.
Modernization
Pentagon’s DEOS Contract Protested
The Government Accountability Office will make a decision on the protest by Dec. 18
Digital Government