Digital Government

Can NIH help drive health data access?

The National Institutes of Health is aiming to address challenges with public health data interoperability by setting new data-sharing expectations.

  • By Chris Riotta

Democrats, civic tech orgs back IRS plans to pilot e-filing service

But support of the forthcoming pilot isn’t universal. 

  • By Natalie Alms

US and Sweden to partner on emerging energy research

Strengthening basic research for critical scientific areas, including nuclear fusion, is the focus of a renewed partnership between the two countries.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

Multiagency plan aims to boost biotechnology workforce

A new national strategy to grow the U.S.’s biotechnology sector focuses on workforce training and curriculum development. 

  • By Alexandra Kelley

DHS looks to invest in digital credentialing

The department’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program issued a new solicitation looking for privacy-preserving digital credential wallets and verifiers.

  • By Natalie Alms

Caller ID woes contributed to SSA disability backlog

Disability determinations at the Social Security Administration slowed during the worst days of the pandemic, and a hitch in a mobile device service played a part.

  • By Adam Mazmanian

Is government culture stifling CX innovation?

Risk aversion among government managers is blocking needed improvements to key programs, according to a recent white paper.

  • By Natalie Alms

House Oversight members want Login.gov documents outlining $187M modernization award

The chairman and ranking member of a House subcommittee investigating alleged misleading statements about the digital identity site want to know how the site’s project team secured a $187 million modernization grant.

  • By Carten Cordell

NIST launches new working group to tackle AI risks

The new initiative will bring together technical experts from across the public and private sectors to explore the benefits and challenges associated with generative artificial intelligence. 

  • By Chris Riotta

First AI advisory committee report stresses getting regulatory balance right

Designing trustworthy AI systems with government regulatory help is a central theme in the NAIAC’s first report delivered to President Joe Biden.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

Records agency to DHS: Look into your watchdog’s use of text messages 

This comes after a hearing two weeks ago that raised concerns among some lawmakers about how the IG uses and retains records of electronic messages. 

  • By Courtney Bublé

CFPB looks to existing law to regulate workplace surveillance tech

After a high volume of complaints, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offered a response as to how the government can limit the use of sensitive employee information in hiring practices.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

House panel zeros out TMF funding for 2024 fiscal year

House appropriators want to eliminate new funding for the Technology Modernization Fund, which is still flush with cash thanks to a pandemic-era special spending bill.

  • By Adam Mazmanian

All Veterans Affairs police officers to be issued bodycams, dashcams by end of 2023

The Department of Veterans Affairs said it will begin issuing in-car and body-worn cameras on June 20, starting with officers at the VA Desert Pacific Healthcare Network in Long Beach, California.

  • By Edward Graham
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Biden to meet with AI experts to talk regulation and safety

Eight specialists in various sectors of artificial intelligence will join President Joe Biden in San Francisco, California today for more collaboration on risk mitigation.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

Trade groups press White House to digitize forms of identification

Stronger digital identity solutions would curb future cyber attacks driven by identity and make stolen personal data less valuable, a coalition of 10 trade groups writes in a new letter.

  • By Natalie Alms

White House efforts to get data equity-ready will also support AI, official says

Executive agencies are prioritizing new best practices to harmonize AI systems and public data to both mitigate bias and support equity.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

Can a chief data officer reignite federal data strategy?

Tech think tank ITIF wants the White House to revive the Trump-era Federal Data Strategy, which it says has “stalled” with a lack of leadership support.

  • By Natalie Alms

DHS spearheads effort to develop next-gen emergency response vehicle

Officials held up the H2Rescue as an example of sustainable, emerging technologies that can be developed and deployed by leveraging interagency and public-private partnerships. 

  • By Chris Riotta

NASA puts error data to use to speed up tsunami detection

The nation’s space agency is leveraging emerging technologies that could potentially provide up to an hour of advance notice of an incoming tsunami to coastal communities. 

  • By Chris Riotta

Login.gov is still 'vital' despite setbacks, GSA official says

In a Thursday keynote, Sonny Hashmi talked about the future plans for the single sign-on following a bombshell watchdog report about the program in March.

  • By Natalie Alms