Modernization
Cloud Computing Contributed $214 Billion to U.S. GDP in 2017
Exponential economic growth in the internet sector isn’t showing any signs of slowing down.
Emerging Tech
DARPA Highlights 10 Focus Areas for Innovative Small Businesses
The agency also stood up an in-house startup accelerator to propel the most promising tech to the commercial market.
Artificial Intelligence
IBM Launches ‘Watson-as-a-Service’ for Government
The company is making a version of its big-name artificial intelligence program available across any cloud provider.
Cybersecurity
CISA Makes Tech and Cyber Centerpieces of National Emergency Comms Plan
The public has a month to weigh in on the updated strategy.
Emerging Tech
Are America’s Companies Ready to Fight Russia & China? New Study Aims to Find Out.
Reagan Institute panel sets out to identify the ‘National Security Innovation Base’ from workforce skills to technologies, labs, companies and academia.
Emerging Tech
Microsoft Stands By Its $480 Million Pentagon Contract
The company reaffirmed its commitment to provide the Army with augmented reality headsets despite resistance from employees.
Digital Government
Why the Amazon Pushback Is Also About Immigrants
After the HQ2 cancellation in Queens, Amazon’s connections to federal immigration enforcement are drawing scrutiny and criticism in other cities, too.
Digital Government
Previous Incumbent Protests NASA’s $2.9 Billion IT Support Contract
NASA’s main IT services contract has a new name and a new vendor, but the old vendor isn’t ready to bow out.
Ideas
Why 2019 is the Year to Try Project Management as a Service
Better project management means better mission outcomes.
Emerging Tech
Trump Science Adviser Stresses the Benefits of Private Research Funding
Kelvin Droegemeier tells academic groups he favors stronger industry ties.
Policy
New York’s Ejection of Amazon Is the Start of a Movement
NYC lawmakers who led a resistance campaign against HQ2 are declaring victory. And already, they have plans to escalate their opposition to tax incentives.
Modernization
DISA Announces a New Impact Level 5 Certification
PTC Cloud Services joins an elite group of cloud offerings to meet some of the Defense Department’s most stringent security requirements.
Digital Government
When Amazon Went From Big to Unbelievably Big
The data on the company’s real-estate holdings reveal a remarkable inflection point.
Modernization
Microsoft Introduces Cloud Offerings for Where Networks Aren’t
The company's offerings are to support disaster response and military efforts in remote or network-deprived locations.
Ideas
When Regulating New Tech Harms Public Safety
Facial recognition technology is new and nascent, but not a departure from the innate abilities humans are born with. Efforts by states to limit its use harms public safety and deters innovation.
Ideas
Apple’s Empty Grandstanding About Privacy
The company enables the surveillance that supposedly offends its values.
Digital Government
How Some Contractors Successfully Weathered the Shutdown
Tech and defense contractors share lessons learned during this lengthy government shutdown.
Digital Government
Stopgap Spending Measure Doesn’t Fix Federal Contractors’ Problems
Rebooting the government after a shutdown is not an immediate process and contractors are waiting for invoices to be paid.
Digital Government
Tech Industry Group Names New Leader
After a strategy change late last year, the Information Technology Industry Council has picked a new chief executive officer.
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