Collaboration Tools

Alexa, Webex headed to the moon

Custom-built versions of Amazon's Alexa digital voice assistant and Cisco's Webex video collaboration software will be tested on NASA's unmanned Orion spacecraft as it travels to the moon and back.

  • By Susan Miller

Public safety collaboration platform gets DHS investment

The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has awarded Mobility 4 Public Safety $1.5 million to advance its secure messaging and collaboration tool for first responders.

  • By Shourjya Mookerjee

How DevOps lost its way -- and how to bring it back

Centralized hubs where developers can access an arsenal of DevOps tools minimize the need for context switching and provide greater visibility into how tools work together and who’s using them for what purpose.

  • By Ian Tien

Cloud-native incident management streamlines emergency response

The CommandCentral cloud-native solution links data and workflows from an initial 911 call all the way through the criminal justice system.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

4 keys to advancing environmental priorities through collaboration

Tackling climate change requires continued cross-agency collaboration and the right enabling technologies.

  • By Jay Hadley

Wickr secure collaboration platform picked up by AWS

Amazon Web Services has acquired Wickr, a secure cloud-based collaboration platform provider that offers an end-to-end encrypted, ephemeral platform specifically developed to support government enterprise deployments.

  • By GCN Staff

How agencies can leverage social media to build trust with constituents

By engaging authentically and meaningfully with constituents over social media, agencies can vastly improve trust and strengthen constituent relationships.

  • By Ben Cathers

How the IT service desk can help agencies advance workforce modernization

Leveraging a tool like the service desk for HR processes can help agencies prioritize and fulfill employee needs quickly and efficiently.

  • By Brandon Shopp

VR scenarios help DHS research arrest-related fatalities

A use-of-force simulation experiment used virtual reality to study factors that might help reduce deadly encounters between law enforcement officers and civilians.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

Treasury expands list of ‘Do Not Pay’ databases

Twelve databases will be added to the Treasury Department’s multiagency, governmentwide Do Not Pay portal.

  • By GCN Staff

CISA tests cloud log aggregation to ID threats

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is testing how well aggregated cloud logs can feed its cybersecurity analysis efforts and improve cloud network visibility.

  • By Justin Katz

Keeping cloud collaboration after CVR winds down

Commercial Virtual Remote, spun up last year to support pandemic telework, goes away this summer. DISA's Global Directory is the key to ensuring the cloud collaboration continues.

  • By Troy K. Schneider

Tweet analysis uncovers how COVID conspiracy theories evolved

Building a machine learning model to filter analyze 120 million tweets gave researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory clues about how to combat online misinformation.

  • By Susan Miller

Scientists are on a path to sequencing 1 million human genomes and use big data to unlock genetic secrets

The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us program aims to collect genetic information, medical records and health habits from surveys and wearables of more than a million people in the U.S. over the course of 10 years.

  • By Xavier Bofill De Ros
Featured eBooks

VR, AR training helps forward observers direct fire support

The Office of Naval Research has developed augmented and virtual reality tools to make it easier to train the Marines who help protect infantry by keeping an eye on the ground situation and calling in necessary air artillery, mortar and naval gunfire.

  • By Susan Miller

Online dispute resolution offers traffic courts COVID-safe justice

The technology offers traffic courts a way to ensure COVID safety without compromising justice, customer service or a local government’s bottom line.

  • By Jarrett Gorlin

Bandwidth issues haunt National Weather Service

A recent systemwide failure at the NWS College Park data center that impacted networks nationwide illustrates the agency’s struggles to supply web access for increasingly complex weather models.

  • By Susan Miller

Pandemic tests electronic records management

Between the rush enable more virtual collaboration, stalled digitization of archived records and managing records that reside in datasets, records management executives are sorting through new challenges.

  • By Troy K. Schneider

Creating a culture of collaboration in public safety

To save time and deliver better outcomes in emergencies, agencies must use solutions that allow them to better coordinate incident response and share real-time data and communications among multiple responder teams or agencies.

  • By Todd Miller

Building interoperability standards for computer-aided dispatch

The CAD2CAD project aims create an interoperable public safety ecosystem that supports multidiscipline response to regional, multistate or national events.

  • By GCN Staff

A real-time mapping platform built from volunteered information

The ground-up approach makes PlanetSense a scalable, location-based intelligence-gathering platform.

  • By GCN Staff