Emerging Tech
When Both Sides Have Drones, How Do You Know Which Ones to Kill?
The U.S. Army recently tested a system that helps defenders wipe the skies of just the unfriendly aerial robots.
Ideas
One Year In, the Evidence Act is Producing Results
Most have identified evaluation officers and chief data officers and have started developing learning agendas that identify priority areas.
Modernization
NIST to Update Online iEdison Tool for Reporting Federally-Funded Inventions
The National Institutes of Health managed the original platform since 1995.
Emerging Tech
Energy Department Launches Challenge for Next-Gen Storage Technologies
The agency will coordinate a range of research and development funding opportunities, prizes, partnerships and other activities to meet a set of strategic goals by 2030.
Digital Government
FAA Isn’t Using the Troves of Data It’s Collecting on Drone Integration
The Federal Aviation Administration has years of data on operating drones that it could share with stakeholders, auditors said.
Ideas
FITARA Hits Its 5-year Anniversary
An enhanced scorecard will drive better government services for citizens.
Emerging Tech
Energy Invests Millions to Launch Strategic Quantum Research Centers
Following a 2018 mandate from President Trump, the department will help build a more comprehensive ecosystem to spark quantum advancements.
Cybersecurity
Iran Is Expanding Its Online Disinformation Operations
Tehran isn’t as practiced as Moscow at purveying propaganda online, but they’re no slouches.
Modernization
GSA Reissues E-Commerce Platform Solicitation With Significant Changes
Vendors that bid on the original RFP will have until Jan. 15 to revise their proposals.
Ideas
Can the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program Secure a Cloud Smart Government?
The good news is that CDM is proactively reaching out to leading cloud service providers for soltuions.
Ideas
The Sneaky Genius of Facebook's New Preventative Health Tool
The feature looks likely to fill gaps in care—and to further draw users into Facebook’s ecosystem.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers Ask FCC to Protect Consumers from Phone Hijackers
The request comes amid an uptick in SIM swap scams.
Cybersecurity
OPM CISO Seeking a Small Business to Help Monitor Agency Cybersecurity
The winning vendor will help the government’s HR department track incidents across 1,000 servers and more than 10,000 devices.
Emerging Tech
DARPA Wants Help Developing a ‘Sea Train’ of Unmanned Warships
The Pentagon’s research arm is looking to produce technologies for a new class of long-distance unmanned surface vessels.
Policy
Experts Recommend Expanding Agencies’ Authorities to Combat Online Deception
At Facebook’s first congressional testimony of the 2020s, experts said agencies’ jurisdiction should include the digital spaces.
Modernization
Defense Officials Tout Smoother Electronic Health Records Rollout
The second deployment of MHS Genesis went “much, much smoother” than the first, as officials take lessons from both rollouts to 25 more bases this summer.
Ideas
Data Standards for Grants Management Are Now the Law
First, standards will be developed and then agencies will have a year to apply them.
Cybersecurity
Air Force Could Tap Into Individuals’ Online Data to Combat Insider Threats
The request for information stems from an executive order issued in 2011.
Emerging Tech
DHS Kicks Off DNA Collection Program for Some Detainees at Border
Border agencies will send samples to the FBI’s databases for indefinite storage.
Artificial Intelligence