Officials: Here’s How Not to Screw Up a $50 Billion Networking Contract

IT Modernization

Officials: Here’s How Not to Screw Up a $50 Billion Networking Contract

The Enterprise Infrastructure Services contract is a great opportunity for agencies to modernize, but they need to focus on people and planning to do it right.

  • By Jack Corrigan
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Cybersecurity

Facebook Introduces New Form of Two-Factor Authentication

Kick your security up a notch.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
CIO Briefing

Commerce, Interior, Energy Top New Government Customer Experience Rankings

A new report rates how federal agencies provide customer experience.

  • By Frank Konkel
Cybersecurity

Senate Bill Boosts Homeland Security Cyber Funding

The bill increases spending on Homeland Security’s Einstein and Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation cyber systems.

  • By Joseph Marks
Sponsor Content
Sponsor Content

Flash Poll: Dominion Over Data

Federal agencies collect more data today than ever before, and managing it effectively can be like navigating a minefield. To find out whether and how agencies are resolving these challenges, Government Business Council (GBC) polled a random sample of 220 federal employees in April 2018.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.
Cybersecurity

New Bill Aims to Prevent the Next Kaspersky, ZTE

The bill would establish an interagency commission to help vet supply chain cybersecurity risks.

  • By Joseph Marks
Data

How AI Can Identify Fake News And Warn Advertisers Who Want to Avoid It

Artificial intelligence could be a way to slow its spread.

  • By Lianna Brinded, Quartz
CIO Briefing

Silicon Valley Is Less Likely to Believe H-1B Workers Are Stealing U.S. Jobs

Current and former tech employees view things a little differently.

  • By Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz
Emerging Tech

The Best Part of iMessage Is Coming to Android Phones

Android will now support the ability to continue text conversations on the web.

  • By Mike Murphy, Quartz
Podcasts

Critical Update: How to Build a Tech Team Designed to Succeed

Pro tip: They won't all be coders.

  • By Aaron Boyd
A member of the Central American migrant caravan, holding a child, looks through the border wall toward a group of people gathered on the U.S. side, as he stands on the beach where the border wall ends in the ocean, in Tijuana, Mexico, April 29, 2018. A member of the Central American migrant caravan, holding a child, looks through the border wall toward a group of people gathered on the U.S. side, as he stands on the beach where the border wall ends in the ocean, in Tijuana, Mexico, April 29, 2018.
Emerging Tech

DHS-Funded Company Wants to Use Blockchain at the Border

DHS may soon use blockchain technology to protect all sorts of data it collects in protecting U.S. borders.

  • By Jack Corrigan
CIO Briefing

What Trump’s Space Force Announcement Means

New plan would create sixth service branch, and annoy the Air Force.

  • By Marcus Weisgerber and Patrick Tucker, Defense One
IT Modernization

GSA Seeks Industry Feedback to Better Harness Tech Spending Data

The government wants to get a better grip on the money it invests in IT and digital services.

  • By Frank Konkel
Cybersecurity

Trade Tensions With Allies Not Affecting Cyber, Top Diplomat Says

The State Department’s focus now is punishing nations that violate cyber norms, not pushing new norms, the State Department’s Robert Strayer says.

  • By Joseph Marks
Data

Apple's New OS Will Automatically Share Your Location During Emergency Calls

First responders will be able to find callers faster.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
a helicopter drops water on a brush fire that broke out in Topanga State Park, Los Angeles. a helicopter drops water on a brush fire that broke out in Topanga State Park, Los Angeles.
Emerging Tech

Someone Flew a Drone Too Close to a Wildfire, Again

Firefighters in Colorado had to ground their aircraft for an hour.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Data

Scandal-Ridden Cambridge Analytica Is Gone But Its Staffers Are Hard At Work Again

The company appears to be putting a new face on its same old data-gathering gig.

  • By Ephrat Livni, Quartz
Ideas

How to Secure Applications in Hybrid Cloud Environments

Enforcing multifactor authentication is just one way to help secure data.

  • By Pete Kersten
CIO Briefing

NDAA, ZTE and the Rest of Congress' Agenda

Congress and the executive branch continue wrestling over Chinese telecom ZTE.

  • By Joseph Marks
Emerging Tech

The U.S. FDA Says It’s Taking the Lead on the Regulation of Cell-Cultured Meat

A different kind of meat could get a different kind of regulation.

  • By Chase Purdy, Quartz
A Boston Dynamics SpotMini robot is walks through a conference room during a robotics summit in Boston. A Boston Dynamics SpotMini robot is walks through a conference room during a robotics summit in Boston.
Emerging Tech

There’s About to Be A Lot More Creepy Boston Dynamics Robots in the World

The company may soon begin to turn its decades-long robotics research into an actual business.

  • By Mike Murphy, Quartz