App Development / APIs Archives

How agencies ensure software containers don’t add complexity

Government agencies using software containers and APIs will be able to transition to the cloud in a distributed IT environment more efficiently, experts say in a new…

Dec 17, 2018 By FedScoop Staff

New NIH challenge targets apps for improved Alzheimer’s care

Suggested ideas include software to aid communication between doctors and Alzheimer's patients, an application to connect patients to existing community resources and more.

Sep 11, 2018 By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier

FEMA looks to the cloud to scale services and deliver better customer experience

In this abridged Q&A, Federal Emergency Management Agency CTO Ted Okada shares how FEMA is marrying customer feedback with data analytics and cloud-based services to improve the…

Dec 14, 2017 By FedScoop Staff

From left: Xiomara Ayala, Ronald Simpson and Terrell Branch, after attending an AFCEA event in D.C. on March 1, 2017.

For some D.C.-area high-schoolers, government IT offers hands-on experience

In a time when government is concerned about recruiting and retaining more young people in its IT and cybersecurity jobs, a D.C.-area program called On-Ramps to Careers…

Mar 27, 2017

Jim Tunnessen speaks at the 2016 Red Hat Government Symposium. (FedScoop)

CTO Jim Tunnessen leaving USDA’s FSIS

Jim Tunnessen, CTO of the Food Safety Inspection Service at the Department of Agriculture, is leaving the agency, FedScoop has learned.

Dec 16, 2016

DOD looking to industry to help rapidly certify its IT

The Pentagon's ability to certify and accredit the IT products and services it uses is no longer rapid enough to keep pace with developing technologies and "maintain…

Jul 28, 2016

EPA offers rough timeline for new agile contracting vehicle

During a standing-room-only industry day, officials laid out their plans for the agency’s agile blanket purchase agreement.

Jul 27, 2016

Too close for comfort: Interior launches system to keep drones away from wildfires

The department's wildfire data collection program would link to web and mobile apps as well as an API.

Jul 26, 2016

18F’s Aaron Snow and Hillary Hartley discuss the team’s long-term vision at a Bloomberg Government event. (FedScoop)

18F wants to move past building digital services for agencies

The General Services Administration's 18F team hopes that one day it can move away from its primary business of building digital services for other agencies, two of…

Jun 29, 2016

18F awards first agile task order — building a FedRAMP dashboard

The General Services Administration’s 18F digital services team has awarded Reston, Virginia-based TrueTandem LLC a $150,000 contract to build out a dashboard for the parent agency’s Federal…

Jun 7, 2016