Digital Government
Pentagon Launches Open-Source Experiment
Code.mil would let the public contribute to unclassified code written by federal employees.
Digital Government
GSA moves one step closer to replacing DUNS
The General Services Administration released an RFI looking for input on an open numbering system for federal procurement.
Digital Government
Congress presses VA to go commercial on IT
The Department of Veterans Affairs must decide whether to keep and improve its home-grown Vista heath record system or move to a commercial provider. Legislators are growing tired of waiting for an answer.
People
How agencies can take a page out of industry's open playbooks
To truly innovate, government must holistically consider a combination of people, processes and technology.
Digital Government
Education Dept. Builds Show and Tell Space for Developers
There's a new GitHub repository for anything built with Education Department data.
Digital Government
Dickerson to Congress: USDS is delivering results
The U.S. Digital Services' report to Congress details 2016 accomplishments across government.
Ideas
Creating a More Secure and High-Quality Open-Source Supply Chain
There are a few strategies agency administrators can adopt to help their open-source supply chains remain secure and reliable.
Ideas
Low Code, Not Open Source, is Key to Federal IT Agility
The government should eliminate code, not try to develop open-source methods.
Digital Government
SEC's open data rule could come before end of Obama administration
Open data advocates may get a long sought after change to data standards in filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Digital Government
Open source is so much more than free code
The former Department of Veterans Affairs CIO shows how successful development and use of open source software requires collaboration, transparency and a commitment to management.
Emerging Tech
To Dodge Regulators, Self-Driving Car Startup Released All Its Code for Free
What’s not available? The wealth of data necessary for the algorithms to actually function.
Modernization
Patent Office Joins Open Source Movement
The office has published the source code for an app that lets users track the status of trademarks.
Digital Government
White House Launches Federal Software Code's New Home
U.S. Chief Information Officer Tony Scott unveiled Code.gov on Thursday.
People
White House opens Code.gov repository
The Obama administration has launched a central code resource for digital tool development as part of its open source software policy.
Digital Government
Here’s How the Pentagon Wants to Use Social Media On the Battlefield
Artificial intelligence will weave open-source and satellite data into useful intelligence in real time, the Pentagon’s No. 2 says.
Emerging Tech
Agencies Try a Tool That Digs Up What Google Doesn't
Parts of the government are using a deep web search engine that teaches itself to return better search results.
Digital Government
Cost of Electronic Access to US Court Filings Faces Major Legal Test of Its Own
Users are charged 10 cents per page to view litigant documents.
Digital Government
White House open-sources chatbot
With 1.5 million messages coming in since the August launch of its Facebook Messenger bot, the White House has opened the code to developers and non-developers alike.
Artificial Intelligence
Elon Musk’s OpenAI Is Using Reddit to Teach AI to Speak Like Humans
The goal of this project is to allow a robot to become smart enough to not only recognize speech, but to also use the data it gathers to formulate appropriate responses on its own.
Ideas