Government tech leaders have long pushed agencies to move more of their tech to the cloud, but the shift away from physical infrastructure is going…
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Federal agencies—by choice and by mandate—are trying to improve the customer experiences they were created to deliver. But in the rush to better serve the…
A decade after serving as the nation’s first chief information officer, Vivek Kundra urges agencies to recognize that artificial intelligence is the world’s next most transformative…
Let me tell you about the time I invented Facebook. It was 2002, after my second child was born. It had been difficult to keep…
The familiar miseries of last winter’s 35-day partial government shutdown were catalogued from the point of view of contractors on Monday as Democrats on the…
The White House launched a new joint committee Monday to boost support for research communities across the United States. The joint committee will be spearheaded…
The White House unveiled its Gears of Government President’s Award winners Monday, recognizing 24 federal employees from seven agencies for outstanding mission results, customer service…
The Defense Innovation Board warned that the Defense Department’s age-old approach to software procurement and development could dull the military’s technological edge. “A large amount…
The Office of Personnel Management has issued guidance giving agency chief information officers more powers, but the department’s own CIO isn’t getting enough authority over…
The FBI released a revised draft solicitation for its enterprise IT services contract once valued at $5 billion. The new solicitation does not include a…
Perhaps the biggest problem afflicting America is its widening geographic divide between the winners and losers of the knowledge economy. A raft of studies has…
A Pew Research Center poll released last month revealed that only 17% of Americans believe they can trust the federal government to do what is…
At the annual Epidemic Intelligence Service conference in Atlanta this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented findings from research on several public…
A successful ground test has moved the U.S. military one big step closer to putting anti-missile lasers on its aircraft. A ground-based laser shot down…
The truth is, it’s a boring time for smartphones. Most of the huge camera and qualitative improvements of the early years have leveled off. iOS…
With the stroke of a pen Friday, federal officials shifted responsibility for managing the Defense Department’s skills training courses to the Office of Personnel Management’s…
In an effort to contain misinformation and extremism that have spread across the platforms, Instagram and its parent company, Facebook, have banned Alex Jones, Infowars,…
The Federal Aviation Administration has for years predicted steady growth in the commercial drone industry, but the latest data shows officials drastically underestimated just how…
Federal agencies are lagging notably behind industry when it comes to digital process automation, or using technology to perform a business workflow. A survey about…
Continuing efforts by the Office of Management and Budget to streamline mandatory agency data collection show progress, but still fall short on evidence that they will ease reporting burdens…