Modernization
TMF Board Announces New Award One Day After $1B Cash Infusion
The Labor Department snagged $9.6 million to improve its data management infrastructure.
Emerging Tech
Advocacy Groups Again Ask CBP to Withdraw Biometrics Expansion Proposal
Customs and Border Protection accepted a second round of comments after the change in administrations.
Ideas
It's Not Just a Social Media Problem – How Search Engines Spread Misinformation
Search engines learn to serve you what you and others have clicked on before.
Policy
Pandemic Drives Phone, Computer ‘Right-to-Repair’ Bills
The pandemic has made living without a computer harder than ever.
Ideas
How Video Game Technology Helps DOD and Schools During Pandemic
Gaming is an underappreciated learning tool.
Emerging Tech
IBM Announces Cloud Marketplace For Secure Chip Design
The marketplace was built as part of a recent Defense Department initiative aimed at advancing microelectronics technologies.
Modernization
DOD Tracking COVID Vaccinations with New Electronic Health Record System
The military was already developing a digital vaccination tracking system before the COVID-19 outbreak.
Policy
Consumer Privacy Bill Would Set National Data Privacy Standard
The legislation would require companies to write their privacy policies in plain English.
Emerging Tech
FAA, Choctaw Nation to Conduct Drone Studies
The partnership will investigate moving goods at low altitudes and traits of human operators.
Cybersecurity
DARPA Building Special Chips for Data Privacy Protection
Fully Homomorphic Encryption is considered the “holy grail” of encryption. But right now it takes too much compute power to be used widely.
Ideas
Practical Steps to Managing Supply Chain Risk
Like with any new agency initiative, nothing moves forward without executive sponsorship.
Emerging Tech
NIST’s Working to Support Interagency Blockchain Use
Interested partners are invited to respond to a new notice.
Cybersecurity
CISA, FBI Link Exploitation of Microsoft Exchange to Nation-State Actors
The agencies also warned of impending commoditization by criminal groups of access gained through vulnerabilities in the email and calendar service.
Emerging Tech
VA Doctor Dispels Myths that 5G Could Make People Sick
He also offered a look into several government-centered deployments.
Cybersecurity
CISA: No Federal Agencies Compromised Through Microsoft Exchange Servers
Investigations remain ongoing, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency leaders said at a hearing on modernizing the federal government’s approach to cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity
Defense Task Force Will Focus on Legislative Solutions for Supply Chain Chokepoints
Reps. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and Mike Gallagher, R-Wisc., are leading the three-month task force.
Cybersecurity
Bill Would Eliminate Immunity for Foreign Hackers
The Homeland and Cyber Threat Act would amend the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to give Americans legal recourse for damages caused by foreign hackers.
Cybersecurity
Splitting NSA, CyberCom Now Could Reduce Military Access to Intelligence, Milley Says
The Joint Chiefs chairman says the organizations have not yet worked out how to keep the data flowing after the long-awaited split.
Emerging Tech
Lawmakers Want to Know How Government Science Facilities Are Holding Up
The Federal Labs Modernization Act intends to keep them more informed.
Cybersecurity