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Red Hat’s John Osborne on Three Ways Agencies Can Adopt to Facilitate Hybrid Cloud Migration
John Osborne, chief OpenShift architect for public sector at Red Hat, wrote in a Nextgov article published Friday that there are three approaches government agencies can implement to speed up and facilitate their migration to hybrid cloud and one is through the development of a “single repository of truth.†“This repository will store not only application code and dependencies, but anything that is needed to build an environment from version control,†Osborne noted.
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in Industry News, News
Carroll Publishing Offers Govt Directory Access Through API
Carroll Publishing has released an application programming interface designed to help developers gain access to a database of government data such as contact details and organizational charts, GovTech reported Friday. The Bethesda, Md.-based publishing company licenses the API to interested parties for internal use or data sharing and reselling efforts. The interface allows users to search […] More
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Report: Google, DoD Partner to Develop AI Tech for UAS Footage Analysis
Google and the Defense Department have teamed up to develop an artificial intelligence technology that would aid analysis of footage collected through unmanned aircraft systems, Gizmodo reported Tuesday. An anonymous Google spokesperson told Gizmodo that the company will provide TensorFlow application programming interfaces to help DoD analysts identify objects in UAS footage as part of the department’s Project Maven. […] More
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in Featured, General, Industry News, News
Survey Highlights Data Sharing Opportunity in Federal IT Modernization Efforts; Red Hat’s David Egts Comments
A new report by MeriTalk has found that 73 percent of federal information technology leaders said that deriving data from legacy applications is vital in efforts to advance government reform and use of shared services. The publication said Thursday it conducted an online survey of 275 federal IT leaders in January for the report, which was […] More
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in Industry News, News
Deloitte: IT Modernization, AI Adoption Among Govt Tech Trends for 2018
A new Deloitte report has identified eight technology trends that could help government agencies develop and adopt an enterprise-centered approach to information technology. Deloitte said Monday its annual report A Government Perspective: Tech Trends 2018 scored each trend based on its relevancy to agencies and the government’s readiness to implement such trends and found that “reengineering […] More
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Executive Spotlight: Interview with Michael Conlin, Chief Technologist, U.S. Public Sector for DXC Technology
Silicon Valley’s name was coined in the 1970s by electronic tabloid reporter Don Hoefler, who heard the phrase “Silicon Valley” during a business lunch. Hoefler then published a series of columns detailing the valley’s semiconductor industry under the title “Silicon Valley U.S.A,” what would eventually become a globally-recognized community hotbed for cutting-edge developing technologies across […] More
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ThinkSmart Adds New Features to Workflow Automation Platform
ThinkSmart has updated a technology platform designed to help government and enterprise customers automate workflows and business processes. The company said Monday it incorporated new features into the Automation Platform that will work to help users configure and integrate the product with any system that runs Salesforce or Google application program interfaces. Paul Hirner, CEO at ThinkSmart, […] More
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AWS Demos Use of AI-Powered Image Analysis Service for DoD Missions
Amazon Web Services has demonstrated the potential defense applications of an artificial intelligence service designed to help software developers build image analysis applications. Amazon Rekognition employs deep learning methods to automatically identify objects and scenes as well as support image tagging to let users search for images using key words, AWS said Monday. The AI service also works to recognize […] More
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in Industry News, News
NIC’s Pete Eichorn: Agencies Should Apply Microservices in Govt Digital Services Devt
Pete Eichorn, director of technology at Kansas-based government information services provider NIC, has said agencies should work to adopt microservices to develop and build up government digital services and keep up with citizens’ expectations. Eichorn wrote in a GCN article published Monday that microservices work to operate independently and communicate via an application programming interface […] More
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in Government Cloud, News
DLT, Evident.io Forge AWS Cloud Security Partnership for Govt Clients
DLT Solutions and Evident.io have teamed up to offer a tool designed to help government clients secure their cloud infrastructure. Both companies will provide public sector clients with the Evident Security Platform that works to assess security misconfigurations and detect vulnerabilities in Amazon Web Services public cloud environments through collection and analysis of application programming […] More
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in Industry News, News
Octo Consulting to Support GSA Award Mgmt Platform Modernization Effort
The General Services Administration has awarded Octo Consulting a potential five-year, multimillion dollar task order to help GSA modernize a technology platform for agency personnel to manage federal financial assistance services, contracts and intergovernmental transactions. Octo Consulting said Wednesday it will provide development, testing, information security, training, and user support services for the Integrated Award Environment program. The […] More