Virginia

Va mobile app opens up procurement opportunities

The for the state’s electronic procurement system (eVA) will make it easier to track business opportunities with government agencies in the state.

  • By GCN Staff

Virginia IT rebuild gives 'step on the gas' support for state workforce

A six-year project to consolidate its IT systems has produced a common desktop and applications that will help Virginia respond faster to productivity goals, state CIO says.

  • By Rutrell Yasin

LiveBallot gets overseas votes to the polls on time

Voters living overseas from Florida, Virginia and California can now get absentee ballots via a secure Web portal powered by Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.

  • By Rutrell Yasin

Switch glitch brings down Virginia police network

The failure of a network switch left Virginia's state police without access to law enforcement records for five hours Jan. 19, the AP reported.

  • By GCN Staff

Virginia Tech alert system helps lock down campus after shootings

VT Alerts, installed after the 2007 rampage that left 33 dead, alerted people on campus via Web postings, e-mail, electronic messages, loudspeakers, phone calls and a desktop app.

  • By Kevin McCaney

Virginia, Microsoft set up electronic health care registry

Electronic health record system would enable residents to store advanced health directives on Microsoft's HealthVault personal health record platform.

  • By Paul McCloskey

Va. county puts all land data into one site

Fairfax County's repository for land use data combines multiple databases and makes it easier for county employees, land developers and residents to access real-time information about property history.

  • By Rutrell Yasin

Microsoft is going back to high school

Microsoft's IT Academy Program is being used to support technology education from computer basics to programming skills in high school students in three states, the newsest of which is Virginia.

  • By GCN Staff

Virginia puts traffic accident data online

A new interactive database of traffic accident data in Virginia will give residents, researchers and public safety advocates a better idea of conditions on the commonwealth's roads.

  • By GCN Staff

Virginia police deploy 3-D tech to reconstruct accident scenes

A multi-jurisdictional police forensics team is using two secondhand 3-D scanners to build models of crash and crime scenes.

  • By GCN Staff

VDOT looks to ease commutes in Northern Virginia

A Virginia pilot project looks to empower drivers with the information they need to decide whether to stay the course or bail out to side streets because of traffic logjams.

  • By GCN Staff

Cybersecurity moves to post-grad level at Mason

George Mason master’s degree program will teach executives how to speak the language of technology and manage cybersecurity programs.

  • By William Jackson

Virginia, nonprofit plan supercomputer 'training ground'

The center is scheduled to open this fall in Danville, Va., and will be named the Center for Applied High Performance Computing.

  • By GCN Staff

Virginia looks to take unused cell phones away from state workers

State of Virginia will examine cell phone usage patterns to see where it can cut costs.

  • By GCN Staff
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iLegislate: An iPad app for local governments

More software developers are designing iPad apps specifically for government use with the trend of aiming at the state and local levels.

  • By Dan Rowinski

Analytics tools help open the book on public-sector agencies

Government organizations trail the corporate world in making use of business analytics, but they can use their own data to influence agency decisions on financial, personnel, policy and other matters.

  • By Alysha Sideman

iPads have the floor in Virginia legislature

The Apple iPad is winning over some members of the Virginia House of Delegates, who are finding it an easier way to keep track of bills than hauling around binders of paper documents, Stateline reports.

  • By Kevin McCaney

Law enforcement using analytical tools to predict crime

Predictive software helps give police a better idea of where to send patrols at any given time. But at least one other use for it has raised the "Minority report" specter for critics.

  • By Kevin McCaney

Emergency access granted in test of interoperable ID system

An emergency preparedness event involving federal, state and private-sector officials demonstrated ID verification technology to scan and clear first responders from federal, state, local and commercial organizations.

  • By Henry Kenyon