Modernization
Amazon Web Services Announces Secret Cloud Region For CIA
The company is able to host government data in the cloud at unclassified, sensitive, secret and top secret classification levels.
Artificial Intelligence
Industry Teams Up To Teach Agencies AI
Two companies are teaming up in an effort to help agencies and their employees about AI.
Policy
Continuing Resolution on Congress' Post-Holiday To-Do List
Congress moved along IT modernization and defense authorization bills but still faces funding the government.
Artificial Intelligence
A Fight Is Brewing Between Congress and the Military Over Cyber War
Should in-theater commanders be allowed to launch attacks that currently require approval from the national command authority?
Artificial Intelligence
Homeland Security Has A Plan To Fight Zombie Devices
The report urges more public-private cooperation on botnet takedowns and more and better cyber standards.
Emerging Tech
Third Time's a Charm? NOAA Reschedules Next-Gen Weather Satellite Launch
Wind delayed the two previous launch dates.
Cybersecurity
Which Bugs Will Hackers Exploit First? Machine Learning Promises a Better Guess
Most vulnerabilities are known; defenders need a better way to know which ones pose an imminent threat.
Artificial Intelligence
Your Boss Might Be Better as an Algorithm
One day we will inevitably start working for AI instead of it working for us.
Policy
Agencies a Step Closer to Open Data, Chief Data Officers
The OPEN Government Data Act, tucked inside the Foundations for Evidence-based Policymaking Act, passed the House.
Cybersecurity
House Panel Investigates Retaliation Against HHS Cyber Leads
Leaders of the HHS cyber center were reassigned amid allegations of contracting misconduct.
Digital Government
Bid Protests Decline in 2017
Contractors filed fewer contract protests for the first time since 2013.
Policy
Bill to Restore State Department Cyber Office Advances
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson shuttered the office in September.
Digital Government
Tech Industry Insiders Want to Standardize Data Scientists
A few companies are creating a Data Science Standards Board that Booz Allen Hamilton thinks could help government hire better.
Policy
White House Discloses Rules on Weaponizing Software Vulnerabilities
The administration will publish an annual report on how it decides whether to hoard or disclose newfound cyber vulnerabilities.
Emerging Tech
Homeland Security's Top Buyer: Still All-In In Agile
The department needs to do a better job “taking the fear out of innovation,” Chief Procurement Officer Soraya Correa said.
Policy
Sessions: Surveillance Reform Could Be 'Exceedingly Damaging' to National Security
Getting a warrant before searching through information collected under Section 702 authorities would be burdensome, the attorney general told lawmakers.
Cybersecurity
Kaspersky Software Found at 15% of Federal Agencies
The suspect Russian anti-virus was usually obtained as part of a larger security package.
Artificial Intelligence
China and the CIA Are Competing to Fund Silicon Valley’s AI Startups
The U.S. intelligence community is upping its early-stage investments in machine-learning companies — but Beijing is pouring in far more.
Policy
Majority of Feds Want to Ban All Foreign Anti-Virus Software from Government Systems
Defense employees are more bullish on a foreign AV ban than civilian feds.
Policy