Soldiers salute the U.S. flag during the Pledge of Allegiance at a welcome home ceremony for soldiers returning from a deployment in Afghanistan, at Fort. Carson, Colo. Soldiers salute the U.S. flag during the Pledge of Allegiance at a welcome home ceremony for soldiers returning from a deployment in Afghanistan, at Fort. Carson, Colo.

VA Officials Reluctant to Say When G.I. Benefit Delays Will Be Fixed

IT Modernization

VA Officials Reluctant to Say When G.I. Benefit Delays Will Be Fixed

Soldiers salute the U.S. flag during the Pledge of Allegiance at a welcome home ceremony for soldiers returning from a deployment in Afghanistan, at Fort. Carson, Colo.

Lawmakers grilled Veterans Affairs Department officials about the IT issues that prevented tens of thousands of veterans from receiving education and housing stipends on time.

  • By Jack Corrigan
  • November 16, 2018
Cybersecurity

Critics Urge FTC to Crack Down on Facebook

This organization wants to see heavy fines imposed against the social media company.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Emerging Tech

The International Space Station Is Getting a “Refabricator” for Its 20th Birthday

Its real value could lie in longer exploration missions.

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz
Ideas

How Government Agencies Are Solving Hiring Challenges with Technology

Modern workers have little patience for the traditional 8-to-5 work schedules that persist in many government agencies.

  • By Todd Gustafson
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Empowering the Analyst with AI Technologies

It’s becoming increasingly untenable for government and military organizations to rely solely on human processing power alone.

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The Next Data Mine Is Your Bedroom

Google wants to scan your clothing and listen to you brush your teeth. Welcome home.

  • By Sidney Fussell, The Atlantic
CIO Briefing

Congress Wants to Confront Facebook, Robocallers and Data-Throttlers

Lawmakers also encouraged the Pentagon to continue helping civilian agencies in cyber matters.

  • By Joseph Marks and Jack Corrigan
Emerging Tech

Facebook Is Launching a Career-Development Site, Taking on LinkedIn

It's designed to give people another reason to visit the social network.

  • By Simone Stolzoff, Quartz
Cybersecurity

DHS Aims to ID Critical Functions to Protect from Cyberattacks by Year’s End

After the Homeland Security Department identifies the critical functions, it plans to map out all their dependencies.

  • By Joseph Marks
Cybersecurity

Beware of Black Friday Scams

Hackers are waiting for you.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Cybersecurity

How Hackers Are Stealing High-Profile Instagram Accounts

In the Wild West of “influencer” marketing, there are few protections and plenty of easy marks.

  • By Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

When the Tech Mythology Collapses

The industry’s fall from grace may feel unprecedented, but we have a model for what happens when a beloved industry fails us.

  • By Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

IRS Spent Millions to Set Up Virtual Assistance Centers That No One Is Using

Of the millions of taxpayers looking for help last year, only 2,700 used the Virtual Service Delivery stations.

  • By Aaron Boyd
Emerging Tech

The Tech Products Consumers Rate As The Creepiest

Which ones are listening to you right now?

  • By Aisha Hassan, Quartz
Ideas

NIST Experiments with Critical Infrastructure Protections

Over in the IT world, this is fairly basic stuff, though it has rarely been tried for operation technology.

  • By John Breeden II
CIO Briefing

Kirstjen Nielsen’s Ugly Legacy at Homeland Security

Nielsen’s future will be decided “shortly."

  • By Heather Timmons, Quartz
Data

How Wearables Could Help NIH Fight Cancer

The agency aims to better monitor and personalize treatments for chronic conditions using the health data the gadgets collect.

  • By Jack Corrigan
Cybersecurity

Survey: Most Employees Unaware of Travel Security Threats

A lot of employees are flouting common security measures while traveling.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Cybersecurity

Government Contractors Face New Data Breach Disclosure and Investigation Requirements

A planned rule would require contractors to save images of breached systems and allow agencies access.

  • By Joseph Marks
Cybersecurity

Election Security Tested

Federal agencies raced to secure vulnerable systems in time for the 2018 midterms, but the job’s not done.

  • By Nextgov Staff
IT Modernization

Miss Out on SEC’s $2.5 Billion IT Contract? Here’s a Second Chance.

The commission wants to add more small businesses to its massive ONE IT contract after announcing awards just last month.

  • By Aaron Boyd