NSA Launches Cybersecurity Directorate
NSA Launches Cybersecurity Directorate
Data
What Restaurant Reviews Reveal About Cities
Where official census data is sparse, MIT researchers find that restaurant review websites can offer similar demographic and economic information.
Cybersecurity
Barr Calls For An End to ‘Warrant-Proof’ Encryption
The attorney general railed against the tech during a speech in New York City, reinvigorating a debate that’s long rankled law enforcement officials and the tech community.
IT Modernization
How Agriculture Plans to Boost Its IT Workforce
The department plans to reskill employees for a data-heavy future and create a CIO development program.
Sponsor Content
Accelerated AI: Best Practices for Implementing AI in Government Agencies
AI has begun to seep into our everyday activities from how we commute to how we shop to how we watch television. But for government, the evolution of AI and the potential it provides hasn’t yet come to fruition. Getting started on implementing an AI solution can be overwhelming and complex. Government Acquisitions Inc. (GAI), NVIDIA and Dell EMC are partnering to help government agencies to define the roadmap to AI in government and lay out the steps to help agencies get started.
IT Modernization
Pentagon’s DEOS Award Could Be Coming Sooner Than Expected
An award for the Pentagon’s multibillion Defense Enterprise Office Solutions contract could come by August.
Data
Small Agencies Need Shared Services Providers to Step Up DATA Act Support
Large departments are assisting smaller agencies in meeting their DATA Act requirements through shared services providers. But that help isn’t always so helpful.
CIO Briefing
OPM Cuts Security Clearance Backlog in Half, But Processing Delays Spell Trouble for Pentagon
The National Background Investigations Bureau is barreling through the backlog of clearance applications as the Defense Department prepares to take over the function in October.
CIO Briefing
White House and Lawmakers Agree to Two-Year Budget Deal
The agreement would lift spending caps and raise the debt ceiling.
Ideas
FaceApp Is Everyone’s Problem
It feels good to call out people for being duped by the Russian app, but the individualist framing of privacy is the bigger culprit.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers Propose Bills to Secure Connected Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The legislation would set “reasonable” security measures for the numerous IT systems that power our increasingly connected vehicles.
Cybersecurity
Equifax Will Fork Up to $700 Million to Compensate for 2017 Data Breach
Those impacted by the breach may be eligible to receive up to $20,000 in cash payments.
Ideas
How You Can Help Your Agency Put AI to Work Today
AI technology will significantly revolutionize how work is done in the federal workspace and allow us to “scale” human action to critical thinking tasks.
Emerging Tech
Air Force Wants Simulated Wargames to Plan For Lasers, Electro-Magnetic Weapons
The wargames are meant to teach airmen about these new weapons and help the Air Force develop new tactics and procedures.
Cybersecurity
Protecting Election Systems Will Take Much More Federal Money, Report Says
The threat of foreign interference in U.S. elections remains, so the federal government must help state and local officials shore up defenses, according to a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice.
CIO Briefing
Everyone Dreads Shutdowns, So Why Do They Keep Happening?
The Antideficiency Act is supposed to clarify what happens when Congress fails to pass a budget. But it hasn’t worked out that way.
Emerging Tech
A Clue to the Reason for Women’s Pervasive Car-Safety Problem
Crash-test dummies are typically models of an average man. Women are 73 percent more likely to be injured in a car accident. These things are probably connected.
Emerging Tech
We Were Promised Moon Cities
It’s been 50 years since Apollo 11 put humans on the surface of the moon. Why didn’t we stay and build a more permanent lunar base? Lots of reasons.
Cybersecurity
Industry Wants to Know Exactly What Huawei Ban Means for Contractors
While the law is clear that agencies can’t buy tech from certain companies, it is ambiguous about how that affects federal contractors and grant programs.
Cybersecurity
Ex-NSA Contractor to Serve 9 Years for Hoarding Classified Information
“Your worst enemy, after the usual suspects, is some of our own,” Harold Martin said during his sentencing hearing.
Cybersecurity