Modernization
Pentagon’s New Electronic Health Records System Deployed To Second Wave of Bases
The MHS GENESIS system went live at four more sites this weekend, teeing up the second major test for the Defense Department’s new health records system.
Cybersecurity
Twitter Bots Are Becoming More Human-Like: Study
In 2016, they were mostly retweeters on timers. Now they’re gathering intelligence.
Ideas
Achieving DevSecOps Success Depends More on Trust than Tooling
Let’s explore what’s behind the cultural clash between the development, security and operations teams.
Cybersecurity
‘No One Is Accountable for This’: Why the 2020 Campaigns Are Struggling With Security
A repeat of the hack targeting John Podesta could well happen again.
Cybersecurity
DOD Will Require Vendor Cybersecurity Certifications By This Time Next Year
The department released a draft maturity model and timeline for new certification requirements for all of the defense industrial base.
Cybersecurity
Army Cyber Command Ready for Aggressive Ops Around 2020 Election, Chief Says
Russia and other actors who try to meddle in the election will be met with a much broader, aggressive and more unified cyber campaign than in years past, according to Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty.
Cybersecurity
Apple iPhones Could Have Been Hacked for Years—Here's What to Do About It
As there is no visible sign of infection on the device, it is likely users are completely unaware of the risks they’re facing.
Emerging Tech
Air Force to Spend $31M to Research How Lasers, Energy Weapons Affect Operators
The service awarded a research contract to General Dynamics IT to gain insights into how directed energy weapons affect the humans using them.
Cybersecurity
NSA Cyber Chief Wants to Share Digital Threats Early and Often
The agency has historically been slow to share threat intelligence but accelerating that process would help the government get ahead of cyber adversaries, according to Anne Neuberger.
Emerging Tech
DHS Plans to Expand Social Media Collection on Refugees and Immigrants
The agency wants the public to weigh in on its plan to change its data gathering practices.
Artificial Intelligence
Pentagon, NSA Laying Groundwork for AI-Powered Cyber Defenses
Officials are developing a consistent framework for collecting cyber data, which could ultimately help train tools to monitor networks and detect suspicious behavior.
Emerging Tech
Federal RPA Solutions Have One Thing In Common: No Two Are Alike
Robotic process automation leads from across government and industry met this week to share early lessons learned from efforts to automate federal agencies.
Emerging Tech
White House Launches New Committee to Advise on Quantum Efforts
It’s all part of a continuing initiative to sustain American leadership in the quantum space.
Artificial Intelligence
Lawmaker: Congress Needs to Focus on China or Risk Being Lapped
A Hawaii lawmaker said Congress needs more focus—and expertise—on the many threats China poses to the U.S.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers Want to Expand DHS' Cyber Monitoring Program to State and Local Governments
Under a forthcoming bill, lawmakers also aim to make it easier for agencies to put the data collected under the program to good use.
Ideas
The Dangers in Smart Cities
Smart cities make for a larger attack footprint, and more potentially devastating results from a breach or hack.
Artificial Intelligence
How AI Will Predict Chinese and Russian Moves in the Pacific
As Pacific Air Forces builds a picture of normal traffic, they'll start looking for suspicious patterns — and even predict what's coming.
Modernization
Watchdog: IT Troubles Limited FEMA’s Response to 2017 Hurricanes, Wildfires
The flaws, some of which date back more than a decade, left first responders scrambling to gather, share and access critical information.
Policy