Digital Government
Federal CTO: Government Should Take an Active Role in Innovation
On Monday, Megan Smith talked White House digital innovation during the second annual LGBTQ Tech & Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C.
Modernization
Computer Scientists Invented a Way to Turn Your Skin Into a Mobile Touch Pad
A new product called iSkin uses silicon rubber and pressure-sensitive sensors to create an elastic film.
Emerging Tech
Why This Team Is Teaching Robots to Play Jazz
This is the future that researchers, funded by DARPA, are hoping to produce.
Emerging Tech
Video: How 3D Printing Will Literally Make the Future
From health care to housing, it's everywhere.
Cybersecurity
Report: China's Spies Read Top US Officials' Private Emails
The intrusion is still going on, a senior official told NBC News.
Emerging Tech
How Uber Could Contribute to the Future of Spycraft
DNI has quietly released an unprecedented, unclassified 5-year roadmap charting the future of data analysis.
Emerging Tech
The Robots Taking Your Job Could Get You Killed
Automating processes at chemical and pharmaceutical plants could save money, but at what cost to safety?
Cybersecurity
DHS Alerted Agencies to Malicious Email Attacks Days After Joint Staff Hack
However, Homeland Security would not comment on whether there is any relationship between the advisory for federal offices and private companies and the apparent military data breach.
Digital Government
Q&A with Ian Kalin: Why Commerce is Taking More Cues from the Private Sector
Commerce's chief data officer described the department's efforts to listen to entrepreneurs' data demands.
Emerging Tech
'Unconventional' Ideas Wanted by DARPA Office
The office is on the hunt for game-changing advances in the world of IT, according to its recently posted Broad Agency Announcement.
Digital Government
VA Secretary: We Need to Simplify Website for Veterans
Veterans health sites should be renamed "Veterans.gov," the secretary suggested.
Cybersecurity
Reports: Russia Hacked Pentagon's Joint Staff Email
Unnamed U.S. officials told NBC News the attack was "clearly the work of a state actor."
Cybersecurity
Hacker Cracks Satellite Communications Network
Satellite tracking of people and objects was supposed to make the world safer. If only it was secure.
Digital Government
VA’s Deputy CIO Takes New Job
Steph Warren oversaw VA’s $4 billion IT shop and its several thousand employees over the past two years, owning the agency’s cybersecurity strategy and answering repeatedly to Congress on its perceived IT vulnerabilities and the successful cyberintrusions of nation state-sponsored attackers.
Cybersecurity
CYBERCOM Wants Secretive Cyber Arms Dealer To Hack the Pentagon
Endgame, known for crafting offensive cyberweapons, has a pending contract to provide tools for finding holes in military networks.
Cybersecurity
Senate Punts on Cybersecurity Bill
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell withdrew the cyberinformation-sharing bill from consideration, leaving the Senate to take it up again in September.
Emerging Tech
Postal Service's Futuristic Vision for the Internet of Things
The "Internet of Postal Things" paints a picture of post office systems that auto-fill paperwork for customers as they walk in, delivery vehicles that monitor themselves for maintenance, and sensors that notify package recipients upon delivery.
Emerging Tech
The Road to Improving Customer Experience for Veterans
Tom Allin is realistic about the challenge that lies in front of him.
Modernization
FBI Wants to use Mobile Devices to Collect Biometrics
In an Aug. 3 draft Request for Quotations, the bureau devoted 43 pages to detailing its wide array of requirements for a mobile biometric app able to collect biometrics via an agent’s smartphone.
Cybersecurity