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Login.gov platform expands to 5 million users
Army connects dumpsters to IoT
BY SUSAN MILLER
The Army Corps of Engineers is bringing the internet of things to waste disposal by installing 100 sensors in dumpsters at Fort Carson, Colo. The goal is to streamline waste collection.
Enevo’s small battery-powered sensors will be put in dumpsters and containers, where they will collect data on temperature, tilt and fill levels. Those data feeds will allow officials to avoid overfilled containers, spot trends and make predictions about future waste collection needs.
The company’s cloud-based platform uses advanced analytics and a dynamic scheduling and routing engine to map truck routes that maximize efficiency and minimize travel distances.
Sensor data will be sent via existing commercial 3G technology or the Cat M1 cellular infrastructure designed for machine-to-machine communications. The network will be wholly independent of the Army’s IT networks.
In addition to installing the sensors, Enevo will provide six months
of cellular subscription service, according to an Army sole-source announcement.
The company’s sensors and logistics platform have been deployed in 35 countries, including a pilot program in Kirkland, Wash., where officials used them to decrease garbage pickups at City Hall. •
BY SARA FRIEDMAN
Five million customers are now using login.gov to securely access government services online.
The centralized platform was launched by the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Service and the U.S. Digital Service in April 2017. It is at different stages of implementation at 17 agencies, including Customs and Border Protection’s Global Entry program and the Office of Personnel Management’s
specific challenges when it comes to identity access management and then finding ways that login.gov can solve those problems. Implementations of the platform are based on common industry standards rather than custom application programming interfaces. As a result, developers can integrate login. gov’s open-source code quickly, and with the help of the program’s Identity Playbook and production checklists, agencies can securely blend their services with login.gov.
Minton said the login.gov team emphasizes the importance of metrics in its service delivery. “We have a strong focus on operational excellence and managing the outcomes with numbers and data and not based on gut feel or the flavor of the month,” he said. “We want to manage login.gov
as a business and optimize it to deliver high uptime and reliability.”
For now the focus is on user authentication, but officials
plan to add identity proofing to the platform by using data from agencies or companies. In January, GSA asked vendors to submit quotes for identity- proofing solutions related to the verification of addresses, government IDs and accounts such as banking or utilities.
“We want to partner with industry to have flexible vehicles to deliver specific pieces of functionality for our customers so we can be more successful,” Minton said. “We need to be very specific and targeted...to do what exactly will drive success for our customers.” •
USAJobs, which was instrumental in driving up the number login.gov users.
Joel Minton, login.gov’s director, also credits industry partnerships
for the platform’s success. “When I started [login.gov], it became pretty clear we needed to build a partnership with private industry as well as traditional government employees,” he told GCN. “We needed to drive industry partnerships since they have so many tools and functionalities that government can’t build itself.”
The process for adding an agency to login.gov starts by identifying its
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