Cybersecurity
CISA Steps Up Governmentwide Recruitment Effort With New Training Guide
The guide brings together various ways the agency and its partners are trying to address the government's perennial workforce challenge.
Emerging Tech
Pentagon Advances Experiments with Autonomous Barges to Replenish Aircraft
The next phase of an existing agreement commits millions to demonstrate this emerging technology.
Policy
Senate Legislation Would Improve Data Collection on Cybercrimes
The Better Cybercrime Metrics Act would bring comprehensive metrics to the impact of cybercrime on Americans.
Ideas
Augmentation for Data-Driven Success
Augmentation techniques can help the Defense Department implement its data strategy goals.
Emerging Tech
US Air Force, Venture Firms Make $60 Million Bet on Hypersonic Aircraft Startup
The deal calls for Georgia-based Hermeus to accelerate development of reusable test aircraft.
Cybersecurity
NIST Updates Cyber Resiliency Guide to Account for Increasingly Sophisticated Threats
Public feedback on the more than 200-page document will be considered in the near future.
Cybersecurity
CISA Stands Up Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative
The effort includes partnerships with several major tech companies.
Cybersecurity
Report Draws Attention to Vulnerabilities in Commercial-Off-the-Shelf Products
Commercial products bought without modification are largely exempt from government acquisition regulations, including the Defense Department’s emerging certification program.
Ideas
Anxiety Is a 'Double-Edged Sword' for Job Seeking
Anxiety can help channel efforts—but it can also undermine applicants.
Artificial Intelligence
NSF Adds 11 New AI Research Institutes to Its Collaborative, Nationwide Network
Top thinkers across multiple sectors are set to jointly engage with the evolving technology.
Cybersecurity
Senate Homeland Security Committee Advances Workforce, Supply Chain Bills
Lawmakers look to grow an already lengthy to-do list at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Emerging Tech
State Wants Better Bots and Processes For Its Help Desk
The Consolidated Customer Support office already manages eight bots, but an ongoing project requires more user-centric automation.
Ideas
How the Energy Department Can Improve Cybersecurity in the Energy Industry
The Energy Department has an obligation to protect both public and private energy interests on critical infrastructure.
Modernization
Text Messages Get Young People to Avoid Sunburn
The researchers set out to establish the optimal text messaging intervention to achieve behavior change in young adults at risk of skin cancer.
Emerging Tech
What One City Hopes to Learn by Pausing Use of Facial Recognition Technology
A ban in Baltimore would restrict the city from purchasing facial recognition technology and temporarily restrict use by city agencies, residents and businesses (but not the police).
Cybersecurity
Advisory Details How to Defend Container Tech from Crypto Miners
Old fashioned data theft is still the main reason adversaries are targeting a popular open-source application management system.
Artificial Intelligence
DHS Tech Directorate Sets Goals to Guide Risk-Aware Artificial Intelligence Use
It’s meant to complement the department’s broader enterprise strategy and could prove helpful to other agencies.
Ideas
What Are Dark Patterns? An Online Media Expert Explains
It’s not you; many e-commerce websites are difficult to use by design.
Cybersecurity