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INDUSTRY INSIGHT
BY STEPHANIE KANOWITZ
INSIDE
FEATURES
30 GIS comes of age
Geographic information systems are growing up, and the range of government services they power might surprise you
BY MATT ALDERTON
36 Can agile transform IT procurement?
A variety of agencies are applying agile methods to contracting in an approach that seems tailor-made for IT services
BY AMANDA ZIADEH
42 Open data dusts off the art world
A Pittsburgh museum is using a suite of open-source tools to create an ongoing conversation about provenance
BY SUZETTE LOHMEYER
CASE STUDIES
45 NASA Ames smooths its cloud migration
A hybrid solution gave NASA’s Ames Research Center the storage it needed — plus speedy response times and encryption
BY STEPHANIE KANOWITZ
47 LA geohub: A model for
‘datafying’ communities
A Los Angeles portal goes beyond offering location-based data by allowing city employees and the public to build and share apps
BY PATRICK MARSHALL
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BRIEFING
6 Identity search engine speeds biometric checks in war zones
7 Startup offers city websites as a service, and DHS puts 275 GIS- based datasets online
8 3-D printing on the fly, and a look at data center outages in 2015
COMMENTARY
10 CYBEREYE
Could SDx be the new model for IT security?
12 EMERGING TECH Satellite image analysis scales with deep learning and crowdsourcing
29 INDUSTRY INSIGHT
5 principles to ensure the Cybersecurity National Action Plan’s success
WISH LIST
50 Tech that we hope hits the public sector
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