Emerging Tech
FAA Drone Regulations Deal Blow to Amazon
The company's plan to deliver packages by unmanned air hit a snag Sunday after draft regulations prohibited remote piloting.
Cybersecurity
The Secret’s Out: NSA Personnel are Out-Hacking the Chinese and Russians
The all-star hacker group purportedly affiliated with U.S. intelligence has breached perhaps tens of thousands of individuals in sectors spanning government, telecommunications, energy, encryption and academia.
Digital Government
FAA Proposes New Rules for Commercial Drones
President Obama also released a memo that orders federal agencies to create drone policies that would protect citizens' privacy and civil liberties.
Digital Government
Why Were There So Many Third-Party Apps on HealthCare.gov, Anyway?
One expert called the large number of apps running in the site's background “digital overkill.”
Digital Government
HealthCare.gov 2.0: By the Numbers
How the second edition of the scandal-plagued website is doing.
Emerging Tech
The Social Science Behind DARPA’s Plan to Map Out the Dark Web
DARPA’s state-of-the-art search engine, called Memex, would mean little without the guiding hand of social science.
Cybersecurity
The Two Acronyms That are Key to Obama’s New Plan to Fight Hackers
The terms are essential for explaining how the government will expand information sharing with the private sector.
Digital Government
White House Kicks Off Recruiting For New Class of Innovation Fellows
Recruiting for the innovation fellows coincides with a big hiring push at the U.S. Digital Service.
Cybersecurity
Senate Bill Pushes Sharing of Sensitive Cyber Threat Data Between Government and Companies
Sen. Thomas Carper’s bill seeks to cajole the private sector into increased information-sharing with the government by offering liability protection.
Digital Government
Obama’s Geek Squad Could Not Rescue DHS Green Card System from High-Risk List
ELIS, short for Electronic Immigration System and a tribute to Lady Liberty’s hospitality, has wound up on the High-Risk List.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers Not Briefed About Obama's New $35 Million Cyber Agency
“I believe [the news] is how everyone else found it . … We know about as much as you do.”
Cybersecurity
Obama’s New Cyber Agency Puts Spies in Charge of Sharing Threat Tips with Agencies
The new Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center will be patterned after the intelligence fusion center stood up in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Cybersecurity
White House Creates Cyber-Sharing Hub for the Federal Government
The $35 million cyberhub is intended to better coordinate intelligence among government agencies to ward off hacks like the one that brought Sony Pictures to its knees.
Cybersecurity
19 Dot-Gov Domains to Use HTTPS Encryption By Default -- But Not WhiteHouse.gov
HTTPS ensure sensitive data aren’t encoded in plain text format and makes it more difficult for interlopers to redirect visitors to a different site.
Digital Government
GAO's High-Risk List Adds IT Acquisition and Veteran Health Care
Multiple Capitol Hill sources confirmed to Nextgov that IT acquisition and operations and veteran health care are now included.
Cybersecurity
Need a Job? Cyber Command Is Halfway Full
The Pentagon is at the midway point of staffing a projected 6,000-person Cyber Command.
Digital Government
Hiring a Chief Data Scientist, White House Points to Big Data Progress
The Obama administration has lured another top digital technologist away from Silicon Valley.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon Proposes At Least $27M to Grow Ranks of Cyber Forces
The military services each want to bring on board an additional 20 to 60 computer security whizzes starting next fall.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers Debut Bill to Require Search Warrants for Email Snooping
Mirror bills to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act will land in both chambers on Wednesday.
Emerging Tech