Deadline extended for Government Innovation Awards nominations
You have until July 18 to help us find the exemplars of public sector innovation in six critical categories.
Nominations now open for the Government Innovation Awards
Help us find the best examples of public sector innovation in six critical categories.
Blockchain, automation and learning to love your legacy systems
HHS’ Jose Arrieta makes the case that a strong data layer can serve as middleware for microservice-driven modernization.
DOD developing in-house cloud provisioning system
The Defense Digital Service is building a tool to automate the complex back-end business processes that accompany commercial cloud services.
Army looks to digitize battlefield medical data
The challenge: Using classified networks to transmit secure-but-unclassified health data and connect field medics to distant treatment facilities.
A shared service for child support enforcement?
The Trump budget calls for an HHS-purchased system all states could use.
Last call for FCW's Federal 100 Award nominations
If you know someone doing outstanding work in federal IT, be sure to nominate them by Jan. 3.
FAA pushed to protect airspace from rogue drones
As a new report warns small UAS can do far more damage to planes than bird strikes, legislators worry that "idiots who have toy drones" will delay legitimate UAS uses.
Congratulations to this year's dig IT award winners
From mobile security to telehealth to smarter and more resilient infrastructure, these five projects represent the best of discovery and innovation in government IT.
A single tool for true systems insight
The Army's Operating and Support Management Information System gives commanders accurate and rapidly updated business intelligence on major weapon and materiel systems.
Cleaning house on the way to the cloud
When the Department of Transportation decided on a departmentwide move to Microsoft 365, it scanned all known devices on the network to identify performance and security problems.
Leading by example on CDM
In 2017, DHS became the first federal agency to officially implement a CDM program, giving senior leaders had a dashboard that shows them what is on the network.
Announcing the dig IT Award finalists
From mobile security to smarter transit to swarming drones, these 25 projects represent the best of discovery and innovation in government IT.
NASA’s systems for sharing code
A federated code-sharing system integrates disparate code repositories, and a search function shows what software is available inside of NASA, no matter where it’s physically housed.
How to be smart about open source
Experts offer five strategies for choosing, contracting for and contributing to open-source software projects.
Deadline extended for 2017 dig IT award nominations
You have until July 15 to help GCN identify the innovative tech that's transforming government at all levels.
AWS announces cloud innovation winners
Louisville, Iowa City and Virginia Beach among the top honorees in Amazon Web Service's 2017 City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge.
Commerce seeks ideas for battling botnets
The request for comment focuses on "ways to improve industry's ability to reduce threats ... and what role, if any, the U.S. Government should play."
Reimagining the TIC for a cloud environment
As agencies move to adopt cloud services, the Trusted Internet Connections architecture is becoming increasingly problematic.
DOT, industry discuss ways to share driverless car data
Meetings are underway to see if programs used for aviation safety could be a model for autonomous surface transportation.
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