Ideas
Why Federal IT Projects Fail (and How to Ensure Success)
As it turns out, projects are often derailed from the beginning.
Emerging Tech
Government Needs An ‘Ethical Framework’ to Tackle Emerging Technology
At SXSW, a beacon of technology idealism, mayors discuss how to deal with the difficult problems that can come with new tech.
Emerging Tech
The Army Will Need Traditional Vendors’ Help Putting Startup Tech to Use
The Army is all in on innovative startups, but it will likely rely on tried and true contractors to get the tech over the finish line, Lt. Gen. Eric Wesley told SXSW.
Ideas
Don’t Call It an ‘Arms Race’: U.S.-China AI Competition Is Not Winner-Takes-All
The most common framing of the two countries’ artificial-intelligence development is dangerous.
Modernization
Helping Police Divert Mental Health Patients From ERs
A start-up wants to use a mobile app to allow clinicians and case workers to do remote patient evaluations when law enforcement officers respond to mental health calls.
Cybersecurity
Phone Scammers Are Impersonating the Social Security Administration, Too
The Federal Trade Commission warns that even if a call doesn’t seem like a scam, it probably is.
Emerging Tech
How a Library Embraced New Technology and Helped Build a Prosthetic Hand
The public library in a small Texas town used an assessment tool that helped officials eventually upgrade equipment—including buying a 3D printer. One community member used it to make a prosthesis.
Emerging Tech
U.S. Marshals Want Help Disposing of Virtual Currencies
The service is gathering market research on vendors capable of storing and disposing of cryptocurrencies seized during investigations.
Ideas
What the Pentagon's Partnership with Homeland Security Means for Other Agencies' Cybersecurity
By working together, our government can provide a unified front in the face of an evolving threat landscape.
Artificial Intelligence
Here's What One Tech Titan Thinks a National AI Strategy Should Be
A feasible national AI strategy will foster innovation, create new employment opportunities, and remove murky policy barriers, Intel said.
Cybersecurity
Survey: RSA Attendees Plan to Spend More on Mobile Security in the Coming Year
Most employees access corporate data on mobile devices through public Wi-Fi networks, according to a new survey.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon’s Cyber Mission Force Needs Better Training Plan
A government watchdog found flaws in the Defense Department’s transition from building its Cyber Mission Force to maintaining it.
Policy
Background Investigations Tech Team Reassigned from DISA to Defense Security Service
By mid-summer, the National Background Investigations Service technical team will be under a new office as part of major shifts in the security clearance process.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Now Helps People Find Jobs
A group of young entrepreneurs is looking to empower workforce agencies and job seekers, harnessing the power of artificial intelligence.
Cybersecurity
NSA-Cyber Command Chief Recommends No Split Until 2020: Sources
That’s another delay for a separation planned several Defense Secretaries ago.
Emerging Tech
Virtual Reality Could Make Disaster Response Training More Effective
In early tests of its augmented reality training software, a Texas-based startup made first responders perform faster and more accurately.
Modernization
VA to Pilot Health Records System in March 2020
Lawmakers still have serious concerns about the agency’s multibillion health records overhaul.
Cybersecurity
The U.S.-China Tech War Is Being Fought in Central Europe
The Czech Republic’s complicated relationship with the Chinese giant Huawei offers a lesson in the benefits and pitfalls of courting Beijing.
Emerging Tech
We’ll Soon Learn Whether You Can Post 3D-Gun Plans Online
A proposed export-rules change has snagged over the question: is publishing such designs a boon to U.S. business or foreign terrorists?
Ideas