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Cybersecurity
DHS hopes blockchain can help secure IoT
Factom’s solution captures the identification of a device, the manufacturer, available updates, known security issues and granted authorities while adding timestamps for added security.
Management
Columbus wins Smart City Challenge
Columbus, Ohio, will receive more than $50 million in funding and technology to help implement transportation technologies.
Management
NYC library partners with Google to teach coding to kids
As a partner in the Google CS First program, the Queens Library can expand its STEM activities and increase computer literacy in the community.
Infrastructure
Microsoft gets into the marijuana business
The software giant is teaming up with Kind Financial to help states track and regulate cannibis with a cloud-based solution.
Digital Government
FEMA keeps it simple with disaster app
Recent upgrades include weather alerts and reminders that keep users engaged.
Management
DC pulls tech into the parking space
The ParkDC pilot will leverage sensors, mobile cameras and dynamic pricing in an effort to reduce parking congestion in Washington, D.C.
Emerging Tech
City mayors make final pitches in Smart City Challenge
The finalists explained how they would use technology and prize money to make their cities safer and easier to navigate.
Digital Government
AT&T joins the Smart City Challenge
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced that AT&T is supporting the challenge with $1 million in hardware, products and services.
Cybersecurity
Microsegmentation: A new security paradigm?
With today’s attack vectors making the traditional security model obsolete, microsegmentation offers a way to secure data at the packet level.
Management
New Yorkers get greater control over digital health data
At the new HealthlinkNY website, patients can download and print customized consent forms allowing their records to be released.
Management
Image recognition app helps long-haul truckers find parking
Researchers at the University of Minnesota are using cameras and image processing software to monitor parking spaces at truck stops in the state and provide a real-time assessment of available spaces.
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Management
Oregon opts for paperless vehicle titling for dealers
The state will use the Vitu electronic registration and titling platform to streamline interactions between auto dealers and the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Digital Government
Teamwork celebrated at InnovateIT awards
The winners of AFCEA Bethesda InnovateIT Awards credited their teams for their projects’ success.
Digital Government
Can an app make for better meetings?
Three UCLA students are working on an app to track and improve the dynamics of group interactions.
Management
Hidden costs in body worn camera systems
A new report categorizes some of the expenses of an ongoing body-worn camera program and offers suggestions on what law enforcement agencies should consider in a five-year total cost of ownership analysis.
Cybersecurity
Hayden: Political culture limits government’s ability to protect IT systems
Gen. Michael Hayden, the former director of the National Security Agency and CIA, said the nation has hardly begun the cybersecurity conversation about what should be open and what should be protected.
Cybersecurity
Is government prepared for the pulse?
Legislators are looking at how government can prepare for and respond to an electromagnetic pulse attack on the U.S. electrical grid.
Cybersecurity
Can the Postal Service put blockchain to work?
A new report explores the potential ways the technology behind Bitcoin could help USPS reinvent its mission.
Management
NYC's new Wi-Fi-enabled buses lack collision avoidance tech
New buses feature USB charging ports and free Wi-Fi, but they are missing collision avoidance systems despite two pilot programs currently running in the city.
Cybersecurity