The Chips Act shoveled billions of taxpayer dollars to the microelectronics industry. One reason for making more circuits domestically is greater cybersecurity and supply assurance. Now a sort of overlooked piece of the electronics supply chain is gaining attention in Congress: The boards the chips are mounted on. For more, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with the Executive Director of the Printed Circuit Board Association of America, David Schild.
Launched Oct. 1, 2013, HealthCare.gov was the public-facing embodiment of what The New York Times called “the most expansive social legislation enacted in decades.” The online marketplace was intended to allow people to begin purchasing health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
The Army's deputy chief of staff for intelligence says military leaders need to understand both the value of OSINT, as well as "how carefully it has to be managed and implemented."
The Copyright Office — a Congressional agency — is taking a bow for the success of its online recordation system. The system lets people submit, online, documents for copyright applications. How successful is it?
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is one of something like 30 agencies that have a hand in disaster recovery. In trying to avoid duplicating benefits to disaster victims, in 2017 HUD started work on a data portal.
With a new initiative to build unmanned systems, the Pentagon wants to scale up fast with smaller, cheaper design.
Government agencies are increasingly turning to Centers of Excellence (CoE) to deploy intelligent automation in an effort to enhance core internal processes and drive operational and workforce efficiency gains.
The Federal Drive with Tom Temin recently brought you an interview with one of this year's Data for Diplomacy awardees from the State Department.
OPM and DCSA are making policy and technology changes are part of the implementation of the Trusted Workforce 2.0.
A threat to U.S. abilities to function in space spur Space Force to develop new capabilities and change training models.
It's not so easy picking out cars and light trucks for your federal fleet. No more garages full of Chevy Luminas. Now the General Services Administration (GSA), which oversees these things, has issued an online tool to help fleet managers pick out electric vehicles.
Andrea Brandon, the deputy assistant secretary for budget, finance, grants and acquisition for the Interior Department, said the agency has implemented robotics process automation across six areas and several others are in the works.
Harrison Smith, the director of the Enterprise Digitization Office at the IRS, said the tax agency is preparing for the influx of new funding by identifying small, but impactful modernization projects.
The Veterans Benefits Administration is looking to accelerate its use of automation tools this summer, to keep pace with its workload and break new records on the number of claims it can process in a year.
Scott Simpson, the digital transformation lead in the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer at DHS, said about 200 contracting officers are testing three AI capabilities to see how they more easily can help them find possible contractors to bid on solicitations.