The department wants to move its agencies away from local data centers towards more standard, shared IT services.

The National Park Service and other Interior Department agencies have used the augmented reality game to attract attention to their lands.

At the National Earthquake Information Center, researchers are supplementing sensor data with tweets.

​Federal scientists hope that a new app could help a population of a small, threatened shorebirds take flight.

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