IBM has partnered with Bangalore, India’s water supply and sewerage board to develop big data and analytics systems for tracking the city’s water distribution networks, Business Standard reported Thursday. The company formed
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A new study by the IBM Center for the Business of Government is asking federal agencies to engage the citizens in formulating public policies, GovExec reported Tuesday. Charles Clark writes the IBM
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Congress is asking the Energy Department to develop fresh supercomputers over the next 10 years to model nuclear weapons explosions, Nextgov reported Monday. Bob Brewin writes that language in the 2014 National
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The U.S. military has appointed Daniel Prieto III, formerly an IBM vice president for public sector services, as director of cybersecurity and technology under Defense Department CIO Teri Takai, Nextgov reported Wednesday.
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The General Services Administration has appointed Thomas Sharpe, most recently the Treasury Department‘s senior procurement executive, to serve as commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service. GSA said Sharpe will oversee acquisition and
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The Department of Homeland Security‘s 2013 budget proposal includes a $33 million increase to continue work on the new St. Elizabeths headquarters project. The $33 million increase would bring the project’s funding
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IBM’s public sector business analytics and optimization practice and the Partnership for Public Service recently released a report on the role of analytics in measuring agency performance. The report revealed that data collection is only the
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Check that one off the list. The federal government will soon initiate the Technology Fellows Program, fulfilling one of former federal chief information officer Vivek Kundra’s 25 objectives in his December 2010
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Federal agencies need to do more to encourage public participation and measure the impact of public participation on agency decisions, an industry report says. The IBM Center for the Business of Government
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With the revelation this week that the White House is expected to appoint Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to the top ambassadorial post to China, speculation has already begun swirling around who will
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