The Department of Energy will grant $258 million to six technology companies that are working to create the nation’s first exascale supercomputer. […]
Citizens shouldn’t rely only on the law to protect their data, according to Will Ackerly, co-founder and chief technology officer at Virtru and former cloud security architect at the National Security Agency. […]
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Data is growing – by 2020, the digital universe is projected to reach 44 zettabytes. But today, just 27% of Feds give their agency an “A” for data management. Feds need a new big data playbook to truly utilize their data – the key to a transformative government. […]
The Federal Election Commission launched its new website in order to make campaign finance data more user-friendly. The website includes all open-sourced data for the first time in the agency’s history. The website was built from scratch by FEC employees and 18F. […]
Machine learning and artificial intelligence are needed to bridge the gap between the volume of government intelligence data and the number of people capable of analyzing it, according to Jason Matheny, director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity (IARPA). […]
The U.S. Marshals Service, which operates within the Department of Justice, is facing the same problems as many of its fellow Federal agencies—recruiting new people, training existing employees, and modernizing IT. […]
Financial reporting requirements imposed by the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA) could open up better communications between agencies and Congress, according to experts. […]
If Congress wants Federal agencies to get better at big data collaboration, they should start by fixing the outdated Privacy Act, according to Jessica Kahn, director of the data and systems group at the Center for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Services. […]
Many Federal agencies oversee vast amounts of big data, from medical records to socioeconomic information. Seventy percent to 80 percent of data analytics work is preparing the data for its specific purpose, according to Adam Wilson, CEO of Trifacta, who spoke at Cloudera’s Government Forum on April 25. […]
Federal data managers need to know the personality of their data sets in order to control them, according to Thomas Beach, chief data strategist and portfolio manager of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Digital Service and Big Data department. […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency needs to attract new tech talent with new ideas and a desire to work on something bigger and more important than the next popular dating app. One of the ways the agency hopes to do that is by continuing to work with the government’s own in-house innovation shop, 18F. […]
The Department of Transportation is holding off on creating new rules for automated vehicles and unmanned aerial systems because of President Donald Trump’s limit on new regulations, according to DOT officials. […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s compliance-based approach will shift to an individualized assessment of components’ threat posture, according to Danny Toler, acting assistant secretary for DHS’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications. Instead of relying on a “three-ring binder” approach, which standardizes cybersecurity requirements throughout an agency, Toler said DHS will appraise its entities’ cyber stances […]
Civil servants who create complex regulations are often their own worst enemy, according to Joe Paiva, chief information officer of the International Trade Administration. […]
Federal agencies are hemorrhaging billions of dollars every year due to fraud, waste, and improper payments, according to the Government Accountability Office. And the problem may be getting worse. MeriTalk spoke with a wide range of private sector experts about how the government can begin to reverse this trend. […]
The FBI is building a facial recognition database that could potentially contain the face of every American, but it barely clears the accurate return rate requirements. […]
David Vennergrund offers eight paths to reach an enhanced, enlightened state for your data analytics efforts–a state that eases suffering, and provides deeper, more impactful experiences, both today, and with ever-increasing data volumes. […]
Consumer Technology Association President Gary Shapiro, who spoke at the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate’s EMERGE Wearable Technology showcase, said that the Federal government will have to play a role in regulating the use of autonomous vehicles. […]
It may sound like a Hollywood thriller, but thanks to new capabilities developed by Hitachi Data Systems as part of its Visualization Suite, being able to tell the story of a crime that recently happened or is about to happen just got very real. […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection established protocol to coordinate drone missions with other Federal agencies, but has yet to develop such procedures within two of its three operational centers, according to a Government Accountability Office report. […]
The White House has deleted all of the information that was housed on its open data portal, a move that is creating confusion about the digital transparency of the Trump administration. […]
Jason Matheny, director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, discussed the role technology plays in assisting the intelligence and law enforcement communities, as well as ongoing IARPA research. […]
Gregory Reams, leader of the U.S. Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis program, said that the open data sets his office makes available are unlikely to suffer the same fate as the animal welfare documents that disappeared from the Department of Agriculture website. “It’s been supported for 80 years and used by a wide constituency,” Reams said at Esri’s FedGIS conference. […]
The Federal Aviation Administration has registered 690,000 unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, since late 2015. This drone influx has created a new set of data management challenges, according to FAA officials. […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Center for Climate Simulation processes reams of data that are as dense as music playlists containing 190,000 years’ worth of songs. […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services do not have enough medical data to ensure that payments are correct or beneficiaries have access to covered services, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Feb. 6. […]
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai got rid of a report on free-data policies in what some are calling the beginning of an effort to derail net neutrality. […]
Open data supporters have expressed trepidation over a new House bill that states Federal agencies will no longer be able to use geospatial information to create open databases on racial disparities and affordable housing. […]
Almost one-fifth of Feds said they are outright not supporting data collaboration across teams, according to a new MeriTalk study. “Acing the Big Data Test,” created in partnership with the data services company Teradata, reveals how Federal agencies are managing big data and how they can improve information sharing practices. […]
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How are Feds utilizing big data to support new missions and encourage collaboration across teams? And, what will they accomplish with the flood of IoT data? […]