Enterprise Architecture

State CIOs focusing on cyber, digital services, connectivity in 2022

Cloud services, identity and access management and app modernization led NASCIO’s list of top tech tools.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

The big lift: Modernizing state UI systems

The Department of Labor and the U.S. Digital Service are working with states to develop modular components to augment states’ legacy unemployment insurance systems.

  • By Natalie Alms

USPTO’s path from open data to AI

A foundation in open data laid the groundwork for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s artificial intelligence journey.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

Driving AI innovation through a National Research Cloud

The NRC will provide affordable access to high-end computational resources, large-scale government datasets in a secure cloud environment and a close partnership between academia, government and industry.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

How the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey expanded enterprise asset management

The Port Authority has established an agencywide, standards-based approach to managing its infrastructure assets.

  • By Robert Kumapley and Xifan (Jeff) Chen

UI modernization to get boost from new Labor office

The Department of Labor's new Office of Unemployment Insurance Modernization is tasked with managing the $2 billion already allotted to UI initiatives by the American Rescue Plan Act.

  • By Natalie Alms

Ushering in an era of more with government IT modernization and managed services

Software-defined wide-area networking can help agencies improve bandwidth, contain costs and boost security.

  • By Tony Bardo

What every state and local CIO should know about grant management

The right grant management solution can alleviate short-term administrative burden for workforces, promote long-term economic recovery for governments and future-proof digital transformation efforts.

  • By James Ha

UI modernization may get more funding, oversight

In its 2022 budget, the Labor Department is asking for $100 million more to shore up state unemployment insurance systems and a check-and-balance system to ensure fixes happen.

  • By Natalie Alms

ICE seeks support for analytics platform

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Repository for Analytics in a Virtualized Environment will give investigators a suite of search, analysis and reporting tools to run across raw or unevaluated datasets.

  • By GCN Staff

The American Rescue Plan is a win for federal IT modernization. Where should agencies start?

As more agencies adopt hybrid IT networks, IT leaders must investigate and deploy solutions providing insight into network operations and applications no matter where they reside -- in the cloud or on-premises.

  • By Brandon Shopp*

Wisconsin gets UI modernization boost from 18F

The federal government’s digital services shop 18F will be partnering with Wisconsin to help it modernize its unemployment insurance system through an agile procurement process.

  • By Natalie Alms

Census counting on cloud service for survey design, data management

The Census Bureau’s Data Ingest and Collection for the Enterprise program is expected to expand surveying capabilities, lower complexity and avoid costs related to duplicative data collection operations.

  • By GCN Staff

Why IT asset management is critical for CDM

IT asset management is much more than a technology or a software solution; it is a strategy that aligns an agency’s internal asset management processes with the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program’s security objectives.

  • By Marcel Shaw
Featured eBooks

Making population data count: The Census Data Lake

As the Census Bureau’s first high-performance, secure and scalable cloud computing environment, CDL will enable survey owners to ingest, process, analyze, manipulate and share survey data.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

Unemployment payments weeks late in nearly every state

Outdated systems have contributed to delayed payments and false fraud accusations, but modernization also has brought automated decision-making that sidelines legitimate applications.

  • By Tim Henderson

How infrastructure as code can help deliver next-level digital transformation

IaC allows agencies to develop, deploy and scale applications at greater speed with fewer risks and reduced costs.

  • By Drew Epperson

County’s telework success built on cloud foundation

When King County’s work-from-home orders went out March 3, employees were already accustomed to using Office 365 to work onsite, in the field or at home and to access all their files and get email phone calls.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

Making data analysis accessible across the Army

Vantage’s data integration and management capabilities are coupled with visual tools to help users develop, deploy and operationalize analysis for operational and tactical planning.

  • By GCN Staff

Labor’s muscular IT platform primed for pandemic response

The Department of Labor’s IT platform modernization initiative is a muscular aggregation of cloud services, content management, service management, enterprise scanning and data analytics built on an enterprisewide IT backbone.

  • By GCN Staff

How HHS used agile to improve oversight

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General relied on agile processes, cloud-based low-code application development platforms and open source technology to modernize its legacy infrastructure.

  • By GCN Staff