Digital Government
How Navy’s Warship Shop Uses Data to Do More with Less
A Navy program office turned to an analytics and visualization tool to help explain its workforce decisions.
Digital Government
Top Federal IT Contracts to Watch for in 2017
This year will offer more contracting opportunities valued at far less than the number of contracts that went out to bid in 2016.
Digital Government
What’s Up With the Office of Management and Budget Website?
Currently, the integral agency—a repository for memoranda issued by the executive branch—is without a website.
Digital Government
Harris Sells Federal IT Business
The deal is reflective of what analysts believe will be a busy year for mergers among IT contractors.
Digital Government
Industry Group to Trump: Halting EPA Contracts is Bad for Business
Part of the contracting community voiced “serious concerns” over the move, calling on EPA and the new administration to “share as much information publicly as possible” about the validity, rationale and duration of contract suspensions.
Modernization
IBM's $62M Army Private Cloud Contract is About Ditching Legacy Systems
As part of the Army Private Cloud Enterprise program, IBM will build an IT infrastructure at the Army’s Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Alabama.
Digital Government
Trump’s Nominee to Lead OMB Wants Better Data
Rep. Mick Mulvaney suggested bad data leads to bad policy decisions.
Digital Government
NOAA's First Images from Next-Gen Geostationary Satellite
GOES-16 enters the testing phase, beaming back images with four times higher resolution than other NOAA satellites.
Digital Government
New Category Management Brass Coming to GSA
The Office of Information Technology Category welcomes two officials from FCC and Treasury.
Digital Government
US Digital Service Gets New Leader
Former Google guy Matt Cutts will serve as acting administrator.
Digital Government
Why GAO’s Bid Protest Dismissals for Alliant 2 Are a Big Deal
The Alliant sequel emphasizes value, not lowest price.
Modernization
Microsoft Gets Big Cloud Win in Defense Department
A provisional authorization means military customers and DOD agencies can use Microsoft’s cloud for compute, storing, networking and database services.
Digital Government
GAO Denies Alliant 2 Protests, Evaluations to Come
The protests questioned GSA's self-scoring system and baseline price.
Digital Government
Outgoing DOD CIO Defends Pentagon's IT Modernization Efforts
DOD CIO Terry Halvorsen announced his retirement and defended the Joint Information Environment and the Joint Regional Security Stacks.
Digital Government
Transportation Secretary Nominee Wants Agency to ‘Keep Pace’ with Innovation
Elaine Chao emphasized a need to keep up with emerging tech to make public security and safety gains.
Digital Government
Tech Trade Group to New Congress: Let’s Collaborate
The Information Technology Industry Council outlined four priority areas that share commonalities with Trump’s agenda.
Cybersecurity
Is DC's Subway Ready for a Cyberattack?
Only five days into 2017, Metro experienced its first meltdown of the year as a computer glitch left its control center unable to communicate with tracks for about 10 minutes.
Digital Government
Here's Why Defense IT Firms Should Brace for Merger Mania
Companies that excel in emerging technologies—like cloud computing and internet of things—will be prime targets.
Digital Government
White House Leaves Trump a Tech To-Do List
The Office of Science and Technology's exit memo features many recommendations to keep the country's tech edge.
Digital Government