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A Single UAS Flight Can Generate Thousands of Files. Here’s Where They All Go.

A routine drone inspection of a bridge or a stretch of rail line can produce thousands of individual images and video clips in under an hour. Multiply

What Is Federated Search? A 2026 Guide

Data, trapped in Silos Federated search lets a single query reach across multiple, separately managed systems — databases, document repositories,

The Redaction Problem: How Intelligence Agencies Share Documents Without Leaking Confidential Info

Every intelligence analyst eventually runs into the same bottleneck: a document is genuinely useful to a colleague on another team, but part of it is

Why the Government Hires PTFS to Digitize Its Records — And Why You Should Care

Somewhere in a federal warehouse right now, there's a box of aerial reconnaissance film from a Cold War-era mission slowly degrading, sitting next to

The History of M-23-07: How the Federal Government Moved Away from Paper Records

What M-23-07 Is M-23-07, formally titled "Update to Transition to Electronic Records," is a joint memorandum issued by the Office of Management

5 Ways Digitization Is Helping Mental Health Practitioners

Mental health care has always depended on connection — but the tools clinicians use to build and sustain that connection are changing fast. From

What Compliance Looks Like for CMS Companies

If you build a content management system, you're not just shipping software — you're shipping a tool that handles everything a customer publishes.

How to Prompt for Accurate, Well-Thought-Out AI Results: A Practical Framework for Professionals

Organizations across government and industry are discovering the same reality: AI is only as effective as the instructions it receives. After

Knowvation GS: A Brief History of an Incredible Technology

Most people who've never worked in federal records management or geospatial intelligence have never heard of Knowvation GS — and that's by design.

The Black Box Gets Smarter: How PTFS’s Knowvation DX Is Rewriting the Rules of Redaction

For decades, document redaction has meant one thing: a human reviewer, a stack of files, and a black marker — or its digital equivalent. It was slow,

PTFS and Carahsoft: Enterprise Document Intelligence Solutions Now Available to Government Agencies

Progressive Technology Federal Systems (PTFS) and Carahsoft Partner to BringContent Services and Library Software to the Public Sector ROCKVILLE,

From Legacy Records to Mission Intelligence: How Digitized History Enables Domain‑Focused AI

Lessons from the Services Across government and defense organizations, vast amounts of institutional knowledge live in legacy materials like