Cybersecurity
Obama's 'Privacy Bill of Rights' Gets Bashed from All Sides
The proposal aims to give consumers more control over their own information, but privacy advocates say it doesn't go far enough.
Emerging Tech
Industry’s Take on FITARA? ‘A Good Step Forward’
Yet, fixing a procurement system designed to build warships to buy modern technology is an ask that CIOs will find more complex than any single piece of legislation can tackle.
Digital Government
Video: Open Data Transparency Is Just the Beginning
The second installment in our partnership with Socrata's Open Data TV.
Emerging Tech
CIA’s New Big Data Hub Will be Hosted in the Cloud
CIA Chief Information Officer Doug Wolfe confirmed Wednesday the intelligence agency will start using Cloudera’s Enterprise Data Hub platform by April.
Digital Government
How the Military Will Fight ISIS on the Dark Web
ISIS already is on the Dark Web raising money through Bitcoin. The military is on the Dark Web, too.
Digital Government
Republicans Furious as FCC Chief Refuses to Testify on Net Neutrality
Net-neutrality advocates deride anger as the "latest episode of House Republicans' long-running IRS-Benghazi-death-panels clown show."
Emerging Tech
Economists Say Robots Will Have Dire Effect on US Economy
A new study explores various scenarios for an economy increasingly powered by robots, and none of them look great for human workers.
Modernization
Google Playing Catch-up to Apple in Mobile Payments
Google’s relationship with the big U.S. wireless carriers is complicated.
Modernization
CSC Acquires Cloud Infrastructure Provider Autonomic Resources
With the purchase, CSC becomes an instant player in the federal cloud market.
Emerging Tech
IBM Tries to Sell Government on ‘Brain in a Box’ Technology
The low-power technology was funded by a grant from DARPA.
Modernization
How Cloud Became Integral to Agency Strategy
On March 12, Nextgov will host an event to discuss where cloud technology is going in the government space.
Digital Government
Video: How to Solve an Open Data Problem
The first installment in our video collaboration with Socrata on open data.
Digital Government
This Is the Republicans’ New Plan for Net Neutrality
Republicans look to curb agency's power to regulate the Internet.
Digital Government
5 Forces That Could Transform Government IT
Analytics, cloud computing, the return of core systems and other forces are poised to change businesses and government over the next 18 to 24 months, according to a new report from Deloitte.
Cybersecurity
Spy Research Agency Is Building Psychic Machines to Predict Hacks
Using publicly available Internet data, supercomputer-like systems will estimate when a prowler might try to breach a system.
Cybersecurity
In the Near Future, Your Face Will Be Your ID
One California-based firm builds software that uses more 16,000 data points—like the distance between eyes—to identify an individual.
Digital Government
As FCC Nears Vote on Net Neutrality, Focus Turns to Congress
Republicans have lost the net neutrality fight. But that doesn't mean they'll stop talking about the issue.
Emerging Tech
Intelligence Agency Goes Virtual in Search for Talent
Wednesday's virtual career fair was just one of the ways NGA uses technology for recruitment.
Emerging Tech
DOD Wants Physical Separation for Classified Data in the Cloud … For Now
The Pentagon isn’t ready yet for classified information to be stored off-premise in the cloud.
Cybersecurity