Civictech examines the technology governments use to serve people: application portals, identity verification, case management systems, data sharing and the contracts behind them. Coverage weighs accessibility, uptime, cost and documented failures. Useful for agency technologists, procurement officers, service designers and advocates representing users locked out of digital systems.
Benefits portals, identity systems, case management platforms and agency data reviewed for usability, accessibility, procurement cost and past failures.
Section 508 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines set the rules federal sites must follow. Here is what they demand, and where agency sites most often fall short.
The 2026 fire season was hard on the people who fly.
How public agencies buy benefits software, and why legacy systems, frozen requirements, and slow procurement push modernization projects over budget.
Civic technology runs on volunteers. Here is how newcomers find a project, pick a first task, and contribute without breaking anything.
A look at the federal sign-in system used by USAJOBS, Global Entry, and other agencies, and what auditors have found about how it's run.
Answer a short questionnaire about your life situation and the government's benefit finder returns a list of programs you may qualify for — here is how that matching works and what it does not do.