Category: Emerging Tech & Modernization

April 8, 2021

San Francisco International Airport and United Airlines are testing SITA Smart Path, a low-touch, biometric-enabled check-in technology for boarding some domestic flights. This will be the first trial run in the country. SITA Smart Path integrates with existing industry-operating platforms. […]

March 31, 2021

Government agencies have faced challenges in providing citizen services during the coronavirus crisis, particularly at the beginning. Taxpayers could no longer walk into a government office to receive an identification card or to pay a fine, and yet many local […]

March 24, 2021

The IRS’s criminal investigations team relies heavily on two legacy IT systems that are very much in need of upgrades. The agency is looking for a contractor to manage day-to-day operations and upkeep, as well as multiple new deployments each […]

April 22, 2020

In light of the ongoing failure of many state government unemployment systems to withstand record numbers of claims for financial assistance, a group of 16 Democratic senators asked congressional leadership on Wednesday to approve actions that would make some of […]

April 12, 2018

Acting IRS Commissioner David Kautter told lawmakers during an April 11 House Appropriations committee hearing that the agency has made significant improvements around a key IT modernization initiative. “The core processing system for filing and processing tax returns has been […]

December 5, 2017

The Department of Defense spent $7.4 billion in fiscal year 2017 on cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence technologies, according to a recent report by public-sector contracting analytics firm Govini. That represents a 32 percent increase since 2012, with […]

September 27, 2017

Looking over the networking and VoIP startup landscape this year, it’s clear that software is front and center when it comes to innovation. The vast majority of the startups highlighted here crafted solutions around software-as-a-service, networking monitoring and performance, and […]