Artificial Intelligence
Energy to Debut World’s Fastest Exascale Supercomputer by 2021
Valued at more than $600 million, the next-generation technology will drastically reduce the time it takes to make new discoveries.
Modernization
Only 11 Percent of Federal IT Runs on the Cloud, Watchdog Says
The Government Accountability Office found the tech’s adoption at civilian agencies has been significantly higher than in the Defense Department.
Artificial Intelligence
Former Federal CIO: Artificial Intelligence Will Change the World
Applying the technology to raw data sets may help transform government IT projects, Vivek Kundra said.
Ideas
What Facebook Could Have Been
A shareable online diary was an obvious idea in the early 2000s. What if a college student’s version hadn’t won out?
Policy
Shifting the Pentagon’s Employee Training to OPM Could Save Millions
The move also establishes the Defense Department as a petri dish for OPM to obtain more data on how employees learn and where more training is needed.
Ideas
The Transformative Potential of Hybrid Cloud Within Government Agencies
Here are three ways government agencies can facilitate and accelerate their move to hybrid cloud.
Modernization
What’s Hot In Federal Tech, Per GSA’s IT Category Lead
Bill Zielinski, head of the Information Technology Category, shares the trends he’s seeing in federal IT through thousands of ongoing acquisitions governmentwide.
Cybersecurity
GAO Flags New Cybersecurity Issues for Upcoming Census
The bureau needs to fix vulnerabilities faster, upon hundreds of other security issues the congressional watchdog previously identified.
Emerging Tech
The Underlying Messages That Screen-Time Recommendations Send Parents
Providing the sort of straightforward guidance parents desire is hard for anyone, even experts.
Digital Government
It’s Official: Trump Shifts All Security Clearance Work to Pentagon
An executive order renames the Defense Security Service and sets a timeline for the office to take over background investigations for the entire federal community.
Artificial Intelligence
Here Come AI-Enabled Cameras Meant to Sense Crime Before It Occurs
The future of video surveillance is about detecting not just faces, but behaviors.
Policy
Progress Is Finally Being Made on Security Clearance Backlog
Improvements to processing times are still needed.
Modernization
Worst to First: Government Websites More Secure Than Ever
Website security and privacy improved across all sectors, according to a survey, but none made more improvements than government websites.
Ideas
How Search Adds Value to Legacy Data
Scalable search allows agencies to gradually pull structured and unstructured data into a modern environment.
Modernization
Nearly Every Agency Missed Their Data Center Optimization Goals, Watchdog Says
Only two of 22 agencies expected to hit all five of OMB’s optimization benchmarks by the end of 2018.
Modernization
IRS’ Plan to Modernize Old Tech Will Cost About $2.5 Billion
The agency is seeking $290 million this year as part of a six-year modernization plan.
Policy
GAO Will Pour $15 Million Into New Tech Assessment Office in 2020
The Science and Technology Assessment and Analytics team aims to build lawmakers’ understanding of emerging technologies and weigh in on tech-centric policies.
Cybersecurity
IRS and Private Partners Tout Success in Combating Identity Theft
Numbers of reported taxpayer victims fell 71 percent from 2015 to 2018.
Modernization
Pentagon Says No JEDI Conflict, Narrows Field to AWS and Microsoft
The Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract could be awarded by mid-July.
Modernization