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

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.

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.

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.