Modernization
Forest Service Seeks Online Storefront for Digital Maps
The vendors may also digitally enhance Forest Service base maps to make them more interactive.
Modernization
FAA Considers Putting Nextgen Weather System in the Cloud
The proposed system should be operational in 2019.
Modernization
Why Google Pays Apple $1 Billion a Year
As of March, something like 80 percent of Google's phone-search profits came from Apple devices.
Modernization
Defense and the intelligence community pursue conflicting cloud plans
Roadmaps for shifting computer work to collaborative online environments follow different construction designs.
Digital Government
Raytheon's 'Google for Spies' Tracks You from Social-Media Sharing — and Fast
Program culls information from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla.
Digital Government
New York's Real-Time Snow Plow Map to Get its First Major Test This Weekend
With a foot of snow in New York City all but assured by Saturday morning, PlowNYC is about to hit the big time.
Modernization
GSA Seeks Governmentwide Mobile Device Management Contracts
The government hopes to save on MDM and other mobile services by buying in bulk.
Modernization
The Supercharged Technology Behind the Nemo Blizzard Emergency Alert
Why did the National Weather Service's notification work when others failed?
Cybersecurity
How Can a President's E-Mail Get Hacked?
A hacker known as Guccifer got into "at least six separate e-mail accounts" of Bush family members.
Digital Government
Agencies Will Shutter Nearly 400 Data Centers Before October
Officials have closed 38 centers over the past two months.
Digital Government
Government Culture Inhibits Shared Services
The will and technology are there but silos and limited risk tolerance are a hindrance, CIO Council official says.
Modernization
BlackBerry Z10 has not sold well in home-market Canada
Despite lackluster sales, analysts remain cautiously optimistic.
Digital Government
Analysis: Is big data to Barack Obama what big oil was to George W. Bush?
Data-collection practices are at odds with some EU policies.
Cybersecurity
Somebody hacked the Fed during the Super Bowl
During the hack, information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product.
Modernization
White House to host Open Data Day Hackathon
Administration officials want clever programmers to improve the API that drives the 'We The People' petitioning system.
Digital Government
Feds want a more robust insurance database before Obamacare rollout
The government will use the contractor-managed repository to evaluate providers and update Healthcare.gov.
Modernization
China may (or may not) be behind the Twitter hack
Twitter revealed that roughly a quarter million accounts have been compromised by hackers.
Digital Government
Why did the lights go out at the Super Bowl?
Entergy New Orleans who provides power to the Super Dome called the outage an abnormality.
Modernization
Menu of safety-approved cloud products grows to three
CGI joins Autonomic Resources on the elite FedRAMP-authorized supplier list.
Modernization