VA Released Millions of People's Personal Data Despite Known Risks
VA Released Millions of People's Personal Data Despite Known Risks
IT Modernization
FBI Unites Traditional Techniques with Tech-Driven Applications to Solve Today’s Crimes
A top official recently reflected on how insiders are transforming old-school approaches to tackle advanced cyber crimes.
Cybersecurity
DHS Silicon Valley Program Makes Two Awards for Digital Credentials Management
The department is working to digitize the process for issuing, verifying and managing credentials like travel documents and employment authorizations.
Emerging Tech
How Lockheed Martin Is Trying To Link Everything on the Battlefield
Experiment by experiment, the company is weaving aircraft, ground vehicles, satellites, and the rest into a network that will someday give commanders unprecedented decision-support options.
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Federal Data Center Modernization
Despite the slow and often uneven progress toward modernization, realizing the performance, security, and savings goals that have been set in the government IT space is possible.
Ideas
Democratic Candidates Need to Learn to Play the Long Game on Broadband
Putting monopoly-style regulations from the 1930s on the competitive broadband sector won't work.
IT Modernization
Doctors Give Electronic Health Records an 'F'
Clunky systems may contribute to medical professionals' burnout.
Cybersecurity
Spy Agencies Stopped Collecting GPS, Phone Location Data Last Year
The decision came in the wake of a Supreme Court decision restricting law enforcement’s use of such information.
CIO Briefing
Hunt Begins for New 18F Director
The current executive director will be leaving by February.
Emerging Tech
White House Updates National Strategic Computing Initiative
The document refocuses objectives from the country’s 2016 computing plan.
Sponsor Content
How Digital Workspaces Can Take Government Productivity to the Next Level
Governments exist in disparate and scattered IT environments aswarm with hybrid cloud and multi-cloud applications. How can one overcome silos and isolation?
Emerging Tech
Lawmakers Propose Bill Limiting Government's Use of Facial Recognition
The legislation would require law enforcement agencies to obtain a warrant before conducting facial recognition surveillance.
IT Modernization
Amazon Cites ‘Political Influence’ in Coming JEDI Protest
Amazon will fight over the $10 billion cloud contract that the Pentagon awarded to Microsoft in October.
Cybersecurity
Facebook, Twitter Detail Efforts to Stop Fake Accounts from Targeting Veterans
Lawmakers pressed social media companies on whether they’re devoting enough of their resources to stopping romance scams and disinformation.
Cybersecurity
DHS Cyber Monitoring Program Is Shedding Light on Agencies’ Shadow IT
Before using tools provided under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program, agencies only knew about four of every seven devices that connected to their networks, according to program manager Kevin Cox.
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IT Modernization
Officials: Shared Services Implementation Begins But Journey Will Be Long
Three of the four initial focus areas are ready to move beyond the standards-setting phase to implementation, with GSA’s payroll program leading the way.
Ideas
Why Visibility is the Driving Force Behind Hybrid Cloud
Agencies need quality operational data.
Emerging Tech
3D Printing Technique Puts Electronics Right into Plastic
The development could lead to better performing small satellites, biomedical implants and more.
CIO Briefing
The Government Report That Got Turned Into a Hollywood Movie
How Scott Z. Burns tackled his feature directorial debut, a gripping film about the inquiry into the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” program
CIO Briefing
Contractors: Begin Shutdown Prep Now
Lessons learned from the 2018 shutdown suggest government contractors should prepare all they can for a potential 2019 shutdown.
Emerging Tech