Author Archive
Amanda Ziadeh
Management
Wiring up the connected city
The Connected City Blueprint identifies smart cities’ connectivity options, their benefits and the value propositions.
Cybersecurity
DHS to demo cyber defenses at RSA
The Department of Homeland Security’s booth will feature 12 government-funded solutions that are ready for pilot deployment and commercialization.
Digital Government
Advice for the incoming class of CDOs
A new report aims to flatten the learning curve for new chief data officers.
Management
County adopts smarter emergency alerting
Berkeley County, W.Va., is implementing a mass public safety notification system.
Management
California looks to expand agile vendor pool
The state’s Department of Technology plans to include up to 30 vendors in the next phase of the prequalification program.
Management
Trapped drivers opt-in for emergency alerts
The Pennsylvania Turnpike’s 511PAConnect system lets motorists stuck in traffic send information and receive incident updates from emergency response teams.
Digital Government
Syracuse gets early warnings on water main breaks and fires
The city is leveraging teamwork, data and open source code to build models to help it predict water main breaks and fatal house fires.
Infrastructure
Hyperconverged solution streamlines transit IT
San Francisco’s transit agency is using Nutanix’s enterprise cloud solution to improve service delivery and reduce its data center footprint.
Management
San Francisco takes on local flooding with Adopt a Drain
The city modified the open source code from Boston’s Adopt a Hydrant program, which lets residents volunteer to shovel out fire hydrants buried by snowstorms.
Digital Government
Getting roads ready for connected, autonomous vehicles
The Federal Highway Administration released a new guide to help transportation planners deploy and integrate vehicle-to-infrastructure technologies.
Digital Government
Dashboard visualizes health of urban populations
The City Health Dashboard gives four pilot cities more accurate and actionable health metrics so officials can better target policies addressing their cities’ risk factors.
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Digital Government
Scratching the surface of the Obama administration’s social media data
The Internet Archive hosted a hackathon to encourage the public’s use of the Obama Administration’s open social media data.
Digital Government
Education Department creates developers hub
The department partnered with 18F to build a Github repository of open source projects and application programming interfaces.
Infrastructure
DOD grants Level 5 authorization for Azure, Office 365
Department of Defense users can now leverage Microsoft Azure Government Cloud and Office 365 services for controlled unclassified information requiring higher security requirements.
Infrastructure
DISA seeks to streamline systems and operation centers
The agency wants to make the Department of Defense Information Network more efficient by standardizing tools and improving cloud compatibility.
Digital Government
NYC wants more data from Uber
Uber's new data portal won't satisfy New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission, which is requesting drop-off location data to reduce the risks of driver fatigue.
Digital Government
DOD tests river navigation system upgrade
The Coast Guard and Army Corps of Engineers are testing an enhanced waterway safety broadcast system on the Ohio River in Louisville, Ky.
Digital Government
'America’s data agency' makes economic info more visual
The Commerce Department wants to give users a way to better understand economic data.
Infrastructure
Map-based tool for transportation-related asset management
SADA Systems’ Atom is a cloud-based solution for managing and tracking regional road structure assets, projects and field personnel.
Digital Government
Smart transportation hits interoperability speed bump
Although many states are outfitting their roads with smart technology, they are still faced with interoperability challenges resulting from auto manufacturer-specific devices.
