Grayson Ullman
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Federal agencies are $3.3B short of data storage savings goals
Federal agencies have through fiscal 2018 to accrue the remaining $3.3 billion in savings from data center closures and consolidations they pledged to achieve as part of an initiative housed within the Federal Information Technology Acquisition and Reform Act. As part of the Office of Management and Budget’s Data Center Optimization Initiative, agencies were tasked … → Read More
5 things to know about ARPA-E
Many people admire the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA — the military’s prolific research arm, which is credited with innovations such as GPS, stealth aircraft technology, unmanned aerial vehicles and ARPANET, the prototype communications array that paved the way for the internet revolution. But the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy — or, ARPA-E — … → Read More
DARPA wants you to help explore next-gen radio uses
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking your help to map a not-so-new frontier in communications technology: radio. As part of the Software Defined Radio Hackfest, the Defense Department’s research arm is hosting a series of international hackathons that will gather groups of open source coders, scientists and engineers to experiment with digital radio … → Read More
IBM bolsters security software training program for vets
IBM is ramping up a program that instructs veterans in the use of its proprietary i2 Analyst’s Notebook software at no cost, the company announced Friday. The expansion of the Veteran Employment Accelerator Initiative, which will add capacity for over 300 additional participants in 2017, follows IBM’s March pledge to hire 2,000 veterans as part … → Read More
'Klingon bird of prey'
“Sea Hunter,” designed to track submarines, could eventually be deployed as a minesweeper or surface-to-air assault platform → Read More
GovDelivery earns FedRAMP certification
The public sector cloud services platform announced it has achieved moderate level compliance following a JAB review → Read More
Microsoft cloud on the cusp of high-impact provisional ATO
Azure Government may receive the new FedRAMP accreditation within the month, Microsoft said. → Read More
Despite improvements in digital government, public remains apathetic
A report by Forrester found that although the public feels the federal digital customer service experience has improved, it is far from a priority → Read More
GPO opens new site for federal documents, information
The site offers information on federal agencies as well as access to a trove of government documents. → Read More
Harvard: Feds not really “going dark”
There’s no need to panic about strong encryption, argue experts from the university. → Read More
NASA crowdsourcing design of robotic arm
The community of 17 million users of the crowdsourcing market place freelancer.com have a unique chance to help design part of a NASA robot for the International Space Station, the site announced this week. → Read More
Survey: Even in the wake of FITARA, some CIOs struggle to show their value
Federal CIOs, newly empowered by the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act to collaborate governmentwide and work in the C-suite with their finance and procurement counterparts, have nonetheless struggled to convey the value proposition of IT enhancements to their fellow leaders, according to a survey of senior federal officials. → Read More
FISMA director awarded Sammy for work in cybersecurity
Ron Ross received one of eight “Oscars of government service” in the award’s 14th annual ceremony. → Read More
NIST lists winners of its first public app-building contest
The Reference Data Challenge called for apps to spur mobile usage of scientific data sets. → Read More