Modernization

3 Steps for Resurrecting Your Useless Zombie Apps

Over time, many of those early agency apps became “zombies” skulking in the dark corners of the app stores, purposeless and all but dead

Modernization

Pentagon Wants Its Own Secure Messaging System

DARPA is looking for small businesses to supply that technology.

Modernization

Homeland Security Wants Government To Get Better at Mobile Security

A new document includes insights for chief information officers, business owners and developers.

Modernization

OMB Releases Draft Policy Slashing Mobile Contracts

The White House wants the federal government to buy less and buy smarter.

Modernization

Apple's New Twist: A Smaller iPhone

The tech giant did something it had never done before.

Modernization

Just 13 Percent of Citizens Would Use an App to Find Government Info

Less than 20 percent of millennials want to receive information from the government on Facebook and Twitter.

Digital Government

Who Spends the Most Time Online?

The latest Pew data shows a universal trend: Adults younger than 34 are far more likely than older generations to own smartphones and use the Internet.

Ideas

Apple Versus the US Government, Who is Right?

It is important to note that technology giants have generally worked with the government for almost 100 years.

Digital Government

System Update: Pentagon Upgrading 4 Million Devices to Windows 10

The news comes almost three months after DOD Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen – with Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s blessing – put the Pentagon’s components on notice to prepare for the move.

Digital Government

Report: OMB Cuts Contracts for Mobile Devices

The new policy could force agencies to consolidate their contracts over the next few years.

Modernization

Report: Federal Government Needs More Apps for Employees

Exceptions include the departments of Agriculture and State, NASA and the General Services Administration.

Ideas

3 Government Tech Trends to Watch in 2016

As we ring in 2016, we will see a significant acceleration within three key technologies as the public sector fundamentally transforms its services to meet the needs of 21st-century population.

Modernization

Star Wars’ R2-D2: The Original Mobile Device

The bleep-blooping droid from "Star Wars" helped shape people's perceptions of how machines can be helpers.

Ideas

3 Steps for Implementing Mobile Projects in Your Agency

Agencies are looking to integrate the use of personal devices into employees' daily lives.