Modernization

Distracted Drivers May Actually Benefit From Using Tech While Driving

What we really need is technology that holds us accountable for our driving behaviors and encourages us to focus on the road, not our phones.

Modernization

Moran pushes MGT in the Senate

The MGT Act's Republican sponsor discusses the bill's prospects for passage.

Ideas

How to Spot Problems Before You Start Moving to the Cloud

Simply knowing these challenges exist is half the battle of solving any potential migration problems.

Digital Government

How Apple Watches Could Detect a Stroke

The watch currently has a basic heart rate sensor to monitor a wearer's pulse during exercise, but what if it could do more?

Modernization

Signal Jammers Stymie First Responders, and DHS Wants It To Stop

Though they're banned in the U.S., illegally imported jammers could delay emergency responders.

Modernization

Senate looks to tackle overseas data access

The Senate is exploring options to resolve conflicts when U.S. law enforcement has a warrant for electronic data that a U.S. provider is storing overseas and the host country has laws preventing the disclosure of the data.

Modernization

MGT's Senate sponsors push committee to act

The appropriators supporting an IT modernization bill are urging a key authorizing committee to vote up the bill and send it to the Senate floor.

Ideas

What If We Stored Our Data in Space?

A space-based cloud storage network could protect sensitive data from the outside world and looming data security regulations.

Modernization

Apple Wants to Teach You How to Code Apps

Learn to code, the iPhone way.

Modernization

GSA chief: Central IT fund is a start, not a remedy

While President Trump's budget proposal includes a $228 million investment for a general IT modernization fund, the head of the agency overseeing the fund sees the initial investment as more of a proof of concept than a panacea.

Digital Government

The Bumps, Cuts and Zeros in Trump’s Tech Budget

Federal IT sees an overall boost in spending, but many research programs take a hit.

Modernization

Buy vs. build to reduce insider threats

Commercially supported open source comes with both cost and security benefits.

Modernization

GOP continues push to privatize air traffic control

Have the stars finally aligned behind a long-planned push to outsource air traffic control operations?

Modernization

Pentagon Mapmakers Want To Tap Mobile Ad Technology. Here's Why.

NGA is scoping private-sector technology at incubators in Boston, Austin and New York.

Modernization

Data center optimization savings falls short

Agencies are reporting far less than the estimated $4 billion in savings by consolidating data centers because of inconsistent reporting and incomplete strategic plans.

Modernization

Leaked budget document shows MGT funding in place

A spreadsheet of the Trump administration's 2018 budget request leaked to the group Third Way indicates support for a technology modernization fund.

Modernization

GAO to Agencies: Get a Data Center Plan

A handful of agencies are doing the bulk of the government's consolidation and that's a problem, GAO said.