Cybersecurity
NIST’s Next Framework Focuses on Protecting Consumers’ Privacy
The Commerce Department agency will begin gathering feedback for a privacy framework at a Texas conference in October.
Modernization
Select Agencies Are Working on Technology Business Management Playbook
Whether it will get a public release is less clear.
Emerging Tech
Twitter Is Testing a Feature Where It Suggests Who to Unfollow
It could help users clean up their timelines.
Cybersecurity
State Department Visa Analysis System Wasn’t Patched or Scanned for Viruses, Audit Finds
Department officials also weren’t tracking who used the system or if they were sharing passwords.
Modernization
Lawmaker: Don’t Let “Rudderless Leadership” Cripple VA Health Record Overhaul
The program’s chief administrator resigned less than two months after taking charge of the project. Another top official left her post days earlier.
Emerging Tech
Gmail's Confidential Mode Now Available For Mobile
It's not a perfect form of privacy, however.
Cybersecurity
FCC Chief: I Was Between a Rock and a Hard Place on Debunked DDoS Claim
An inspector general determined last week the commission misattributed a commenting system outage during the net neutrality debate to a deliberate digital attack.
Cybersecurity
How California Is Improving Cyber Threat Information Sharing
The state wants to add every city and county government to its automated threat feed program in the next three to four years.
Artificial Intelligence
How Artificial Intelligence Could Keep Army Transports Ready for Action
A yearlong pilot program will see if AI can predict when components on Bradley Fighting Vehicles will break.
Emerging Tech
NOAA Creates Workarounds for Malfunctioning Weather Satellite
The GOES-17 still isn’t working the way it’s meant to, but engineers believe they have a way to make it more functional than not.
Artificial Intelligence
What Your Boss Could Learn by Reading the Whole Company’s Emails
Employee emails contain valuable insights into company morale—and might even serve as an early-warning system for uncovering malfeasance.
Policy
Pentagon Prohibits Personnel From Using GPS Services in All ‘Operational Areas’
The device-agnostic policy applies to smartphones, tablets, fitness trackers, smartwatches and all other applications with geolocation features.
Modernization
How A Human Resources System Could Revolutionize the Army
Army program managers took a mandate to upgrade the service’s payment systems and turned it into a way to unearth soldiers’ hidden talents.
Emerging Tech
White House Sets Top Research & Development Priorities for 2020
Expect artificial intelligence, quantum computing and space travel to get budgetary attention in fiscal 2020.
Emerging Tech
Satellite Imagery + Social Media = A New Way to Spot Emerging Nuclear Threats
A research team is training computers to find and fuse clues from wildly different rivers of digital data.
Emerging Tech
Drug Company Gains Access to 23andMe's Massive DNA Library
Do you know who has access to your DNA?
Artificial Intelligence
AI Scanner Can Distinguish Whether An Iris is Living or Dead
No word if the technology works on zombies.
Modernization
GSA's Property Database Contract Isn't Really Worth $8 Billion
A typo in the solicitation led people to believe the agency planned to spend $8.2 billion. The agency doesn't even want to spend $8.2 million.
Digital Government