Conklin checks in as CIO at the world’s largest library

Judith Conklin, newly installed CIO at the Library of Congress, talks about remote work infrastructure, continuity of operations and upgrades to essential services.

The unemployment insurance system is set to get a tech makeover -- but it needs much more, the Biden administration says

The Labor Department has launched an overhaul of the technology that runs the unemployment insurance system, which was overwhelmed by claims and plagued by fraud during the pandemic. But the agency says Congress must act to fix deeper problems.

Napa County installs AI-based early fire detection

The pole-mounted artificial intelligence-based system uses optical and heat sensors to detect and analyze smoke plumes that indicate fire.

Out-of-State Toll Scofflaws Vex State Authorities

States such as New Jersey are losing millions when out-of-state drivers fail to pay their tolls, fines and fees. Some states are looking at reciprocal agreements.

Removing Urban Highways Can Improve Neighborhoods Blighted by Decades of Racist Policies

COMMENTARY | At least 28 cities have begun or are planning to partly or fully remove highways that have isolated Black neighborhoods.

Cloud can help speed FOIA response

Centralized, cloud-based repositories that consolidate information make it easier for agencies to search for data needed to fulfill Freedom of Information Act requests.

Rethinking backups to combat ransomware

A backup system that is a virtual device not only manages the storing of the agency’s data on physical media but it also creates a virtualized copy of that data for production.

Flash Flooding Highlights Immediate Dangers of Climate Change – Again

Elected officials and activists say state and local governments need to do more now.

Deadly Auto Crashes Up, Despite Less Driving

New federal statistics show that a troubling trend with a rise in fatalities on the nation's roadways continued into this year.

How the Deepfake Task Force can improve the emergency alert system

Standards established by the Deepfake Task Force will enable the creation of a more powerful, flexible and reliable emergency alert system that can create messages in hundreds of languages and dialects – via text, audio or video.

40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast.

One of the country’s most important sources of fresh water is in peril, the latest victim of the accelerating climate crisis.

Integrating cloud-native security and DevSecOps workflows

Six tips for agency IT managers wrestling with cloud-native security issues and processes.

Federal 100’s cloud champions

Many of this year’s winners were chosen for their work advancing cloud computing and network infrastructure to power remote work, secure agency systems and facilitate collaboration on COVID-19 research and vaccine development and distribution.

4 ways the pandemic forced local governments to rethink budgeting and technology

Due to the lasting impacts of COVID-19, governments have realized that the old ways of budgeting are no longer sustainable, and new technologies are needed to accelerate digital transformation.

FedRAMP leans into OSCAL for streamlining authorizations

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program is pushing adoption of the Open Security Controls Assessment Language to enable automated reviews.

Argonne unwraps testbed supercomputer to prep for exascale

Argonne National Laboratory has announced the Polaris high-performance computer, a testbed system to help get software and applications ready to run on future exascale machines.

IRS beefs up compute power for fraud detection

When IRS ran a test of its fraud-detection algorithm on a GPU-accelerated platform across 4 terabyes of data, processing speeds increased 10-fold.

Cloud-native incident management streamlines emergency response

The CommandCentral cloud-native solution links data and workflows from an initial 911 call all the way through the criminal justice system.

VA readies cloud-based data platform

VA Data Commons features computing infrastructure, co-located data and commonly used software services, tools, and apps for managing, analyzing and sharing data.

Endpoint protection: Securing the pieces that make up the whole

If properly tuned and configured, endpoint detection and response solutions that incorporate artificial intelligence, threat hunting at scale and vulnerability management for IT hygiene can help agencies stop known and unknown threats in real-time. 

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