GPA is Just a Number
Not happy with your agency’s FITARA scorecard? Check out what agencies are doing right with FITARA implementation and learn a few ways they can improve.
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FirstNet for Emergency Management
FirstNet provides quality of service, priority and preemption for emergent medical communications.
Understanding and Utilizing Multimodal IT
In light of the rapidly changing tech scene, many organizations have started to look toward the future and adapt their traditional enterprise systems to new and developing technologies. What is emerging now is an environment where agencies are adapting bimodal or multimodal technologies and platforms.
End of the Space Shuttle & the Beginning of Commercial Space: Leadership, Change, and Private-Public Partnerships
NASA wants to concentrate its limited resources on deep-space exploration and cede lower-Earth orbit to a burgeoning commercial space sector. Achieving these two goals requires transformational change.
Precision Medicine’s Future in Government
Precision medicine, which takes into account an individual’s genetics during, is a major trend in government health IT and a presidential initiative.
What Needs Should Guide Your ITaaS Procurement?
Government agencies want and need innovative technologies, but they’re challenged by tight budgets, complex procurements and high security requirements. A more flexible approach is to contract for IT capacity on an on-demand basis, allowing for scaling up or down, depending on requirements. This is becoming the preferred method of contracting for and implementing IT capacity.
The 4 Envelopes: Transparent Project Management Part 2
Public confidence in federal technology is at record lows in the wake of serial IT disasters like healthcare.gov and OPM’s failure to protect tens of millions of security records. We need to fix this.
5 Steps for Keeping Your Kids Safe Online
The Internet is an amazing place that allows children to meet and interact with people from around the world, but it also provides the bad guys new ways into your home that was heretofore unavailable.
Delaware CIO Shares Cloud Procurement Tips
We’ve all been on the dreaded tech support line — languishing in despair as the wait time increases and real help seems like a distant dream. There has to be a better way, right? If only the government could find one. The Delaware Department of Technology found that solution.
Why 18F Isn’t Going Away Anytime Soon
Earlier this month, GSA launched a third line of business to house its digital startup, 18F, and emerging tech initiatives. We sat down with the new commissioner of GSA’s Technology Transformation Service to get more details on the new entity and what it means for potential government customers.