Modernization
GSA plans new cloud buying vehicle to support modernization at all levels of government
The General Services Administration is soliciting feedback from industry on a planned new blanket purchase agreement to provide cloud infrastructure, storage, software and services to federal agencies and state and local governments.
Artificial Intelligence
Automatic Government
This Nextgov ebook examines how agencies employ automation and other variants of artificial intelligence software to improve service delivery and mission outcomes.
Policy
Billions of Federal Dollars to Close Broadband Gaps are About to Start Flowing
The FCC has launched a program that provides $50 subsidies to help households pay internet bills and also approved rules for a $7 billion fund for libraries and schools.
Modernization
VA expecting claims backlog to peak this summer
Recent additions to the backlog of veterans affected by Agent Orange are going to add to an expected spike in the backlog of pending benefits claims at the Veterans Benefits Administration, but agency officials are still aiming to get the levels closer to pre-pandemic numbers by the end of fiscal year 2022.
Digital Government
Survey: 1 in 3 Experience Slow Service Engaging With Government
Despite progress, a recent survey indicates agencies still have room to improve service delivery.
Ideas
Modernizing Container Security Is Essential to Secure Application Development
Most traditional security tools agencies rely on aren’t designed to effectively show what’s going on inside of a container.
Emerging Tech
Pentagon Preps to Experiment with Robotic Surgery, Augmented Reality Via 5G
A request for product proposals is in the pipeline.
Digital Government
Pentagon Publishes Five Data Decrees
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks also mandated assessments of certain data efforts in a May 5 memo.
Modernization
Funding is only part of the answer for UI modernization
State workforce agencies have funding for unemployment modernization and administration thanks to pandemic relief legislation but there are policy impediments, experts said.
Cybersecurity
Energy Department Leading White House Interagency Response to Pipeline Attack
The hack highlights jurisdictional issues on pipeline cybersecurity.
Modernization
Lawmakers Say It’s Past Time OMB Issued IDEA Act Guidance
After two years in limbo and a pandemic forcing more adoption of digital services, House lawmakers want to see real guidance issued in the next 45 days.
Modernization
Justice Official Recommends Supreme Court Reject Oracle’s JEDI Petition
Oracle has not won at any level of court despite numerous bid protests against the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract.
Digital Government
3 Companies Settle Over Millions of Fake Comments on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rollback
Broadband companies funded an effort responsible for 8.5 million fraudulent comments supporting the repeal, according to a New York attorney general report.
Digital Government
Coalition Urges Congress to Boost Funding for Census Modernization
A group of Census experts and data users are asking appropriators to provide $2 billion in funding to the Census Bureau in fiscal 2022.
Ideas
How Design Thinking Can Improve Public Sector IT
With its push to provide faster, more predictable and higher quality software, public sector IT organizations may have discounted the need for design.
Emerging Tech
Army to Equip First Unit With Augmented Reality Headsets By Fall
Top Army officials told Congress the first unit will be equipped with the Integrated Visual Augmentation System headsets by the first quarter of fiscal year 2022.
Modernization
Government needs a massive investment in FedRAMP
A well-funded shared service could relieve an authorization bottleneck and bring essential cloud services to the government market.
Modernization
How the Army Software Factory Preps Soldiers for Future Battlefields
Program lead Maj. Vito Errico said the project is focused on helping the Army figure out how to organize product teams for the future force.
Ideas
Why We Remember More by Reading – Especially Print – than from Audio or Video
Learning is generally more successful when it’s on paper than onscreen.
Modernization