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The Future of Federated Search, Part 2- The New Plumbing

If you ask anyone who has built a federated search system what the hardest part was, the answer is rarely the search itself. It is the connectors.

The Future of Federated Search, Part 1: From Search Box to AI Backbone

For most of its history, federated search has been a quiet, practical idea. Instead of copying every database, file share, and intranet into one giant

Mapping the Where: Knowvation GS and Public-Facing Digital Collections

Knowvation's geospatial roots run deep. The 2015 rebrand was unveiled at GEOINT, and the platform's geospatial extension, Knowvation GS, remains

Six Things PTFS’s Technology Can Do That the Competition Can’t

There's no shortage of vendors selling "AI-powered enterprise search" right now — it's become one of those phrases that shows up on every homepage. So

Why Federated Search Actually Matters — And How It’s Changed the Information Industry

Anyone who's worked inside a large organization knows the feeling: you need one answer, and it's hiding somewhere across four different systems that

M-23-07 in 2026: Where the Records Mandate Stands Now

The June 30, 2024 deadline for M-23-07, the OMB/NARA memo that pushed federal agencies to ditch paper records for good, has passed. But if you assumed

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 and

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