Technology Modernization Fund Board Picks First Projects
Technology Modernization Fund Board Picks First Projects
Board Chair Suzette Kent announced that four projects have been chosen.
IT Modernization
Management Chief: Workforce Must Change to Reach IT Modernization Goals
The Office of Management and Budget’s Margaret Weichert shares how the administration's “holistic approach” to management can fix the government’s technology woes.
CIO Briefing
Lawmakers Want Answers on FDIC Data Breaches and Stingrays
And a new bill pushes for the naming and shaming of foreign hackers and government officials who attack the U.S.
CIO Briefing
NASA Finally Gets a New Leader
Nearly 15 months after President Trump was sworn in, the space agency has a permanent administrator.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Can Help Government and Military Organizations Become Audit-Ready
The Department of Defense (DoD) is a massive operation — $2.2 trillion in assets, a proposed 2018 budget of $639 billion and more than 2.8 million military and civilian personnel around the world.
Cybersecurity
Democrats Just Filed a Lawsuit Accusing the Trump Campaign of Helping Russia Disrupt the 2016 Election
The Democratic party is also suing Russia's armed forces and WikiLeak's Julian Assange.
CIO Briefing
Defense Department is Pursuing Another Multibillion-Dollar Cloud
This cloud is focused on collaboration and business tools.
Emerging Tech
Report: Many Feds Don’t Believe the Hype About Emerging Tech
Techies love the tried and true.
Cybersecurity
DARPA Wants to Merge Human and Computer Cyber Defenders
The CHESS program would build on DARPA’s autonomous cybersecurity contest and traditional hacking competitions.
Data
FTC's Facebook Audit Didn't Catch Cambridge Analytica Leaks
The audit missed a lot of key information.
IT Modernization
Federal Cloud Leaders Say Lift-And-Shift Migrations Can Leave You ‘Sorely Disappointed’
Agency experts said it’s often better to start over with legacy systems than try to force them into the cloud.
Ideas
What Agency Leaders Need to Consider As They Update IT Systems
Building on old foundations doesn't make sense.
CIO Briefing
Is OPM's New Weather Policy the 'Natural Progression' of Telework?
Advocate urges careful roll-out of policy requiring remote workers to remain on the job during inclement weather.
Data
The Pentagon Is Building an AI Product Factory
Job One for the new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center will be delivering solutions for services’ specific problems.
CIO Briefing
The Latest Trend for Tech Interviews: Days of Unpaid Homework
Some hiring managers contend that there are better ways to evaluate programmers, however.
IT Modernization
IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New Hardware
Congress and watchdogs have been warning the IRS to upgrade its systems for years.
CIO Briefing
Eric Schmidt Didn’t Know That Google Was Working the Pentagon’s AI Project
The former chairman of Google was kept in the dark about the company’s outreach to the Defense Department — by design, he says.
Data
Facebook Attempts to Limit Reach of EU Privacy Law
About 1.5 billion Facebook users around the world could see some changes to their terms of service.
Data
Security Gaps Could Let Hackers Edit Government Spending Data, Watchdog Says
New and old flaws in systems at a Treasury Department bureau added up to “a significant deficiency,” according to the Government Accountability Office.
Ideas
6 Steps for Fast Government Project Deployment Using Agile Development
Many project managers are realizing that the fastest way to get their digital projects off the ground is through agile development.
Cybersecurity