Emerging Tech
Gender Gap Affects IT Shops, Where Women Remain Scarce
Men and women divide most starkly on leadership issues, including fairness and empowerment.
Cybersecurity
Hacker Conference to Feds: Stay Home
Many in the community are 'uncomfortable with this relationship' after NSA revelations, says event founder, himself a DHS adviser.
Emerging Tech
Ground-Attack Aircraft Radar to Outmaneuver Overcast Skies
L-3 Communications secures a $2.6 million Pentagon deal to build sensors that use extremely high frequency radio technology to see through clouds.
Cybersecurity
There Are at Least Three Easy Ways to Hack the Emergency Alert System
The small-scale hacking of the Emergency Alert System in Montana to broadcast a supposed zombie apocalypse has revealed the vulnerabilities in alert systems.
Digital Government
How a Deadly Explosive, When 3D Printed, Could Be Life-Saving
People who are digging up unexploded ordinances sometimes don't know how to handle them. Could these replicas change that?
Digital Government
Finalists Exhibit Tech for $465 Million Virtual Border Fence
The installation of more surveillance towers has drawn rare bipartisan support in the immigration reform debate.
Digital Government
Obama’s Case for the Benefits of Big Brother Government
The President touts the government's use of big data.
Modernization
DISA Plans $427 Million Hybrid Cloud Storage Setup
Vendors will supply hardware housed in agency’s data centers.
Digital Government
How to Lead a Team to Greatness, From the Man Who Sequenced the Human Genome
The formula for getting big things done in government according to NIH Director Francis Collins.
Emerging Tech
Border Protection Agency Considers E-Commerce
Agency is in the market for an electronic storefront for IT purchases.
Cybersecurity
Fourth of July Rallies Protest NSA Surveillance
Marchers demanded freedom from the agency's 'unreasonable searches and seizures.'
Modernization
The New Hot Commodities Market: The Cloud
A new exchange for cloud computing capacity will launch early next year.
Digital Government
Troops With Traumatic Brain Injury Show Symptoms 5 Years Later
Long-term TBI study mandated by Congress has been unfunded since 2006.
Emerging Tech
Infographic: See Every Manned Space Flight Since 1961
From Mercury to the space shuttle, all manned flights in one graphic.
Cybersecurity
Manager Likely Rubberstamped Snowden’s Foreign Travel
Intelligence community employees must report overseas travel in advance, but a trip to the Far East wouldn't necessarily be scrutinized, officials say.
Modernization
The Meteoric Rise of Cellphones in One Chart
The number of mobile-cellular subscriptions will reach a projected 6.8 billion by the end of 2013.
Emerging Tech
The Future According to Ray LaHood: High-Speed Rail, But Also Tons of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
Despite being a proponent of walkable communities, the outgoing U.S. Secretary of Transportation just doesn't believe Americans will ever stop buying cars.
Digital Government
Q and A: How Big Data Is Revolutionizing City Government
Harvard Professor Stephen Goldsmith wants to build a market for municipal data analytics.
Modernization
India’s New Surveillance Network Will Make the NSA Green With Envy
The country is going ahead with an ambitious program that will let it monitor any one of its 900 million telecom subscribers.
Cybersecurity