Modernization
Esper: No White House pressure on JEDI
Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters that he "never felt pressure from the White House" with regard to the award to Microsoft of the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract.
Digital Government
Trump's Federal Personnel Point Person to Step Down
Margaret Weichert will leave the White House after nearly three years of pushing an aggressive agenda.
Emerging Tech
Marine Corps Looks to Virtual Reality as a Recruitment Tool
It’s the first time the Marine Corps Recruiting Command ever explored procuring VR flight simulators on an enterprise level.
Modernization
Judge Puts Pentagon's Giant JEDI Cloud Contract On Hold
The up-to-$10 billion cloud contract is enjoined until “further notice from the court” while Amazon pursues a lawsuit.
Modernization
Securing the Government Cloud
In this special report, Nextgov distills what you need to know about federal cloud security.
Artificial Intelligence
Labor Department Joins GSA’s AI Center of Excellence to Automate Procurement Tools
Labor becomes the sixth agency to join the Centers of Excellence program and the first of 2020.
Ideas
Longer Thumbs Lead to More Smartphone Touch Errors
It's not your big, dumb thumbs, it's your long, dumb thumbs.
Modernization
Court orders temporary block on JEDI
JEDI, the Defense Department’s multi-billion-dollar cloud procurement, is officially on hold, according to a federal court announcement Feb. 13.
Modernization
How DOD plans to automate classified cloud provisioning
The Pentagon wants to automate cloud provisioning at the classified level, and a stop-work order on its $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud program won't help, the department said.
Modernization
New Bipartisan Bill Would Codify GSA’s Centers of Excellence Program
The “light touch” legislation was introduced by Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Mark Meadows, R-N.C.
Modernization
Federal Contracting Community Shreds FBO Replacement Site in Letter to GSA
“If this had the same notoriety as Healthcare.gov, people would have been fired.”
Modernization
Frustrated by Flawed Broadband Maps, States Are Trying to Create Their Own
The Federal Communications Commission’s broadband maps underestimate the number of households that lack internet service. State agencies are trying to gather better data.
Modernization
Executive order looks to safeguard GPS infrastructure
Federal agencies are being tasked with developing guidance to protect signaling and spectrum capabilities that undergird GPS and other services.
Modernization
VA looks to boost health record spend to modernize infrastructure
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking an 82% increase in 2021 spending on the massive electronic health record modernization as part of a move to increase the tempo of the project, account for infrastructure gaps and implement a scheduling solution.
Modernization
NASA Will Only Tolerate So Much Danger
An investigation into what really went wrong with Boeing's last space mission turned up serious issues.
Digital Government
Trump’s Budget Pushes Bonuses and Reskilling to Build Up IT Workforce
The budget calls for reskilling 400,000 federal employees using OMB’s Reskilling Academy as a model.
Modernization
Army accelerates push to the cloud
The Army wants 2020 to be the year of the cloud and hopes to carry that momentum into 2021 with its cloud implementation plan.
Modernization
VA’s Electronic Health Records System Won’t Make Its First Go-Live Deadline
Training was supposed to start this week ahead of deployment in March, but Veterans Affairs officials said that timeline has been pushed out.
Modernization
The Army turns to automation for officer assignments
The Army is hoping a little automation and more "back of the resume" data will better tell an officer's story when searching for next assignment and crack down on nepotism.
Modernization