Ideas
The State of Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation
Many agencies face the same challenges when trying to implement CDM capabilities.
Emerging Tech
NSA, Army Research Aim for More Advanced—And Less Noisy—Quantum Systems
Through a new broad agency announcement, the two solicit proposals to help identify the strength and type of errors affecting quantum computation.
Cybersecurity
Watchdog: OPM is At Risk of Not Being Able to Restore IT Systems Post-Disaster
The massive 2015 data breaches that exposed personal information of current and former federal employees are the subject of an ongoing lawsuit.
Modernization
GSA’s $50B Telecom Contract Is Now Truly Open for Business
More than two years after awards were announced, agencies can now issue task orders to all nine vendors on the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract.
Modernization
Microsoft Gets Temporary Authority to Host Secret Classified Defense Data
A Defense agency has granted Microsoft a temporary provisional authority to host data at Impact Level 6 for the next 90 days.
Ideas
Data Evangelists Spread the Word on Boosting Government Performance
A recent gathering of state and local officials had the feel of an old time revival.
Emerging Tech
Lawmakers Demand Answers on Facial Recognition Deployments in Public Housing
In a letter to HUD Secretary Ben Carson, democrats from both chambers raised concerns about threats to residents’ privacy.
Modernization
App Rationalization Is Not About 'Low-Hanging Fruit'
While agencies often look for quick wins on new administration policies, the application rationalization process is not one of those areas, an official said.
Cybersecurity
CISA Still Wants Your Thoughts on Its Vulnerability Disclosure Policy
The agency wants feedback on how the government should accept unsolicited bug reports.
Modernization
A More Automated FedRAMP is One Step Closer
The program office seeks public comments on updates to its automation plans.
Digital Government
How California’s Consumer Privacy Act Will Become the Digital Law of the Land
Under the law, the onus is on consumers to request that companies disclose or delete their personal data. But more states and the federal government could still jump into the privacy debate.
Ideas
Robot Career Guidance: AI May Soon Be Able to Analyse Your Tweets to Match You to a Job
Those social media posts may point to your career path.
Digital Government
NIST Launches Biometric Databases to Boost Identity Verification Research
The rollout marks the beginning of “what is intended to be an expanding collection of biometric resources.”
Ideas
Legacy IT Is Not the Problem
Digital transformation requires architecting an IT organization around something more fundamental to IT organizations than technology: complexity.
Emerging Tech
Pentagon Is Searching for Domestic Drone Options
Acquisition chief Ellen Lord shared details about the Defense Department's efforts to spark a U.S. ecosystem for small unmanned aerial systems and counter technologies.
Cybersecurity
Facebook's Push for End-to-End Encryption Is Good News for User Privacy, as Well as Terrorists and Paedophiles
Every decision has tradeoffs.
Artificial Intelligence
Commerce Partnership Opportunity Aims to Amplify Feds' Data Use
The department’s National Technical Information Service is looking for services to help agencies use data as an asset.
Digital Government
Agencies Can Start Prepping Systems for DUNS Transition
The government will need to prepare for next year’s transition or risk the federal contracting version of Y2K.
Emerging Tech