The Census Bureau will not push through with plans to commence testing operations in Puerto Rico, the Standing Rock Reservation in North and South Dakota and the Colville Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land
MoreAmazon and the Commerce Department have hosted a data challenge event in Seattle for software developers and civic hackers o develop systems that connect open data with voice recognition. Justin Antonipillai, counselor to Commerce
MoreThe White House has unveiled 29 new digital tools from nonprofit organizations, companies and students that support national priorities as part of President Barack Obama’s Opportunity Project. The tools use federal and local data to address challenges identified by
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The U.S. Census Bureau has collaborated with Carnegie Mellon University to build up its insider threat program as part of the agencyâs risk management framework, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Meredith Somers writes Tim
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The House Oversight Committee has asked the Government Accountability Office to evaluate the Census Bureau‘s readiness to conduct an end-to-end test in 2018 as part of the bureau’s preparedness strategy for 2020 Census.
MoreThe Commerce Department has opened the comment period on the Census Bureau‘s plan to conduct a population survey in Puerto Rico next year in order to test proposed data gathering and systems integration methods for
MoreThe U.S. Census Bureau has begun its search for a new executive to serve as the agency’s chief technology officer. According to a notice posted Monday on USAJobs, the CTO will perform duties as the
MoreAvi Bender, former chief technology officer for the U.S. Census Bureau, has been appointed to lead the Commerce Department‘s National Technical Information Service that distributes federal science and engineering information and data. Commerce said Monday Bender has
MoreThe Census Bureau has named Kevin Smith, who previously worked under the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as chief information security officer, as associate director for information technology and chief information officer. The Census
MoreThe U.S. Census Bureau plans to integrate a commercial off-the-shelf platform with systems developed by in-house experts to collect and process data for the 2020 census. Census Bureau Director John Thompson wrote in a blog post published Thursday that
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