Trump’s Top Acquisition Official Outlines Priorities
Trump’s Top Acquisition Official Outlines Priorities
Data
Agriculture Wants Store-Level Data on All of America’s Grocery Retailers
The agency plans to use the data to make sure everyone in the country has affordable access to healthy food.
Cybersecurity
Report on Election Security Gains Attention, and a Sharp Rebuke
It showed another kind of election security threat: companies looking to profit from a country on edge about the integrity of its national and local elections.
IT Modernization
Pentagon’s Former Top Hacker Wants His Startup to Inject Some Silicon Valley into the Defense Industry
"If the nerds don’t show up and work on the mission of national defense...then I’m not sure who will," says Chris Lynch, of Rebellion Defense.
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Emerging Tech
The Intelligence Community is Exploring Long-Range Biometric Identification
A new IARPA program aims to build biometric technology that can identify people using cameras stationed on far off rooftops and unmanned aircraft.
CIO Briefing
HHS’s Suspension of Acquisition Services Leaves Outside Agencies and Contractors in Limbo
It’s been three months since the department announced it was closing down its shared services operations, and many questions remain unanswered.
Emerging Tech
Energy Opens Nominations to National Quantum Advisory Committee
The deadline for submissions is Oct. 4
IT Modernization
VA Launches VITAL Training Ahead of First Electronic Health Records Rollout
Veterans Affairs officials learned some lessons from their Defense Department counterparts and developed an immersive training program focused on how the new EHR system can fix issues clinicians encounter every day.
Ideas
Agencies to Security Industry: Automate Cloud Compliance Faster
Cloud providers also want faster, more efficient FedRAMP compliance, and today, this is well in reach.
Ideas
How Congress Turns Citizens' Voices into Data Points
No matter why or how people contact their elected officials, they all want one basic thing: They want someone to listen.
Sponsor Content
Post-perimeter Security for Government
Often traveling to various geographies, field agents can be exposed to mobile app-based, network-based, and device-based threats.
Ideas
I Won’t Buy My Teenagers Smartphones
Denying a teen a smartphone in 2019 is a tough decision, and one that requires an organized and impenetrable defense.
Emerging Tech
Interior Expects to More Than Triple Drone Flights by 2025
Unmanned aircraft offer the department a cheaper, faster and safer way to conduct operations across 500 million acres of federal lands.
CIO Briefing
Rep. Will Hurd Highlights Plans For Final 14 Months in Congress
The Texas congressman laid out his priorities with humor and passion at a summit in Washington this week.
CIO Briefing
GSA Seeks to Simplify Citizen Survey Work for High-Impact Agencies
GSA will usher certain agencies through Paperwork Reduction Act regulations to meet the administration's customer experience goals.
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IT Modernization
GSA Answers 105 Questions About Transition From DUNS To Unique IDs
By the end of next year, all organizations working with the government will have a new identifier. This major shift has generated some questions, which GSA is trying to answer.
CIO Briefing
A Small Perk at Lunch May Cut Depression at Work
Employers’ small gestures of kindness can have big impacts on employees’ health and work performance, researchers report.
Emerging Tech
How Silicon Valley Maintains its Competitive Edge
Historian Margaret O’Mara talks about her new book The Code and how Silicon Valley has maintained its competitive edge in high tech.
Ideas
9 Tips to Help Secure Every Federal Employee’s Mobile Device
Bad actors increasingly target smartphones and endpoint devices that are generally less protected than government computers.
Policy
Lawmaker Threatens to Give the Next Attack Plane to the Army
Tired of USAF slow-rolling, Rep. Michael Waltz has already spearheaded legislation allowing SOCOM to seek light attack aircraft.
IT Modernization