How data can lead states to post-pandemic recovery
An essential element for recovery planning collecting and analyzing data to help policy-makers understand how workforce, health care and social services programs interact with one another, a new report says.
AF looks to facial recognition to secure facilities
The Air Force’s AFWERX innovation arm is investing in real-time facial recognition to secure base perimeters and enhance situational awareness for Air Force security staff.
Seamless info sharing for first responders
The Department of Homeland Security is funding two small businesses developing technologies that would facilitate information sharing among first responders from multiple jurisdictions.
The new complexities of cloud access control
NIST's new guidance is a valuable first step.
Cloud streamlines CARES Act grants management
With grants management taking on more importance in the pandemic, state and local governments are turning to cloud-based systems to streamline processing and reporting.
Locking down 5G
While 5G wireless technology promises to be a significant technological and societal disruptor, it also opens up a range of new cybersecurity challenges, a new report states.
Marines pilot 5G in ‘living lab’ at Miramar
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar will test the technology for energy communications, connected vehicles, drones and perimeter security.
The 'magic' of open source: better, faster, cheaper -- and trustworthy
Governments at all levels are seeing the benefits of embracing open-source software to better deliver services to the public, a new report states.
Tennessee town rolls out license plate recognition system
Since the system went live April 1, it has contributed to more than 30 interceptions and arrests of suspects in crimes such as car, license plate and trailer thefts and even the recovery of a runaway.
Can VR prepare police for encounters with people with mental disabilities?
A virtual reality training tool aims to help police better understand what people with certain mental disabilities experience during an encounter with officers.
Virginia consolidates COVID response data
Framework for Addiction Analysis and Community Transformation platform launched in 2018 to track opioid addiction has been expanded to help with the commonwealth’s COVID-19 response.
Focus on fundamentals: How Illinois flipped the work-from-home switch
Using their continuity of operations and disaster-recovery plans, Illinois officials quickly pivoted to a zero-trust, hybrid multi-cloud and multi-premise environment to support remote state workers.
How a gentle nudge can impact government programs
By simply changing how choices are presented to constituents, agencies can change behaviors.
How local government scaled up for remote workers
The biggest IT challenge local governments faced during the COVID-19 pandemic has been scaling existing infrastructure to accommodate many more workers than they had planned for, IT leaders said.
How data visualizations drive decisions
As governments lean into data-driven pandemic response, one expert offers insights into how agencies can make their data visualizations more transparent and trustworthy.
Agencies' pandemic response shows true power of cloud services
The virtual desktops, chatbots and other technologies that helped agencies make the best of a bad situation are likely to persist after the pandemic, one cloud experts says.
NRC’s telework agility built with security, trained employees
The key to moving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s workforce from 98% onsite to 98% remote when work-from-home orders were issued was preparation.
Open-source solution to CARES Act grants management
With the free toolset, State governments can find newly available CARES grants, track the status of internal grant approvals, build workflows for signing off on subgrants and comply with transparency and reporting requirements.
RPA takes on more services delivery
One positive outcome of the coronavirus pandemic has been agencies’ increased ability to quickly adapt to new circumstances, thanks, in many cases, to their use of robotic process automation and chatbots to deliver internal and external services.
Cloud CRM enlisted in COVID contact tracing
Some state public health agencies are using Salesforce’s Work.com to help with contact tracing ahead of reopening.
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