Under the executive order, agencies must make full use of tech in environmental review and permitting processes for “infrastructure projects of all kinds.”

Staff members and the data holdings of the National Centers for Environmental Information are safe following the storm, the agency said.

The new tool can be used by federal, state and local health officials to make decisions minimizing person-to-person transmission.

While use of "UxS" vehicles by air and sea isn't new, NOAA's reliance on them has increased tenfold since 2012.

The data now available can be used by researchers to predict and respond to natural disasters in real time or forecast retail sales.

The Interior Department agency has launched a $60,000 Challenge.gov competition to find "innovative" data visualization solutions.

There's growing interest in how tech might help tame the wild seas.

The company will support the agency's high-performance computing systems as well as its scientific visualization hardware and software.

A group of coders, librarians, scientists, storytellers and others passionate about data came together at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., to help preserve federal data some worry…