Ideas
How Government Agencies Are Solving Hiring Challenges with Technology
Modern workers have little patience for the traditional 8-to-5 work schedules that persist in many government agencies.
Emerging Tech
The Next Data Mine Is Your Bedroom
Google wants to scan your clothing and listen to you brush your teeth. Welcome home.
Emerging Tech
Facebook Is Launching a Career-Development Site, Taking on LinkedIn
It's designed to give people another reason to visit the social network.
Cybersecurity
How Hackers Are Stealing High-Profile Instagram Accounts
In the Wild West of “influencer” marketing, there are few protections and plenty of easy marks.
Emerging Tech
When the Tech Mythology Collapses
The industry’s fall from grace may feel unprecedented, but we have a model for what happens when a beloved industry fails us.
Emerging Tech
IRS Spent Millions to Set Up Virtual Assistance Centers That No One Is Using
Of the millions of taxpayers looking for help last year, only 2,700 used the Virtual Service Delivery stations.
Emerging Tech
The Tech Products Consumers Rate As The Creepiest
Which ones are listening to you right now?
Digital Government
How Wearables Could Help NIH Fight Cancer
The agency aims to better monitor and personalize treatments for chronic conditions using the health data the gadgets collect.
Cybersecurity
Survey: Most Employees Unaware of Travel Security Threats
A lot of employees are flouting common security measures while traveling.
Modernization
Miss Out on SEC’s $2.5 Billion IT Contract? Here’s a Second Chance.
The commission wants to add more small businesses to its massive ONE IT contract after announcing awards just last month.
Modernization
Big Contracts to Watch at DISA
The defense agency’s 2019 forecast includes three contracts with contract values that could exceed $1 billion.
Modernization
VA’s $16 Billion E-Health Record Overhaul is Already $350 Million Over Budget
Just six months into the project, VA’s most important modernization effort is getting more expensive.
Digital Government
Pentagon's $10 Billion JEDI Contract Clears One Protest; Second Protest Pending
A subsequent bid protest filed by IBM remains up in the air for the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud contract.
Emerging Tech
Pentagon Wants More Money for Lasers To Defend Against Missiles, Drone Swarms
Directed-energy weapons are with a factor of two or three to being militarily useful, the Pentagon’s top scientist said.
Emerging Tech
NSF Wants to Build an App that Matches Feds to Tech Jobs
And some of those jobs might not exist yet.
Cybersecurity
Postal Service's Informed Delivery Feature Could Be Helping Fraudsters
A new way to steal credit cards.
Digital Government
Watchdog: Department CIOs Are Getting More Authority But Compliance Is Uneven
A partial GAO review showed agency IT leaders are likely getting a say on budget issues, but some lack the documentation to prove it.
Modernization
GSA Seeking a Vendor to Manage Its Platform-as-a-Service Offering Cloud.gov
The contract will call for developing code, troubleshooting issues and monitoring for operational failures and security incidents.
Emerging Tech
The First Smartphone App to Detect Actual Heart Attacks Probably Won’t Be Apple’s
This app could detect a type of heart attack caused by complete blockage of an artery.
Emerging Tech