Emerging Tech
DNA Backlog Stymies Development of 'CSI'-like Inventions
Obligation to help crime labs relieve bottlenecks of untested samples eats up Justice’s resources.
Emerging Tech
Congress' Plan to Stop Exporting Technology to Repressive Regimes
The Global Online Freedom Act of 2013 would make it illegal for firms to export equipment that could facilitate digital monitoring.
Digital Government
John Brennan’s Love-Hate Relationship With Drones
The CIA nominee wants to dump the drones program on the Pentagon, but Defense nominee Chuck Hagel won't be happy about that.
Emerging Tech
First White House Petition Crosses Raised Response Threshold
Officials now require 100,000 signatures for an official response.
Digital Government
Iran's Stealth Fighter is Probably an Elaborate Fraud
Experts believe that the Iranian jet is hardly the aeronautical breakthrough the Islamic Republic wants the world to think it is.
Digital Government
Analysis: Is big data to Barack Obama what big oil was to George W. Bush?
Data-collection practices are at odds with some EU policies.
Emerging Tech
Contacting lawmakers at the click of a button
Washington staters can contact their legislators by commenting on legislation.
Digital Government
The brain injury data project: One soldier's story
Data from more than 10,000 brain injury patients -- including hundreds of variables and outcomes -- is being tracked in an ongoing government project that began 26 years ago.
Digital Government
The drone secrets inside John Brennan
No one knows more about the CIA's drone base in Saudi Arabia than Brennan.
Emerging Tech
Good for science, bad for your nightmares: Moths that drive robots
The next generation of robots may work like moths to a pheromone.
Emerging Tech
White House plans to release We the People 2.0
The updated version will allow petitioners to collect signatures outside the White House domain.
Emerging Tech
What government can learn from House of Cards
And it's not that Kevin Spacey could whip Congress into shape.
Emerging Tech
Wanted: Top-notch techies to take a short-term stab at government's problems
New innovation fellows will work on tools for natural disasters and federal accounting.
Digital Government
You might want to be prepared for two North Korean nuclear tests
Based on satellite surveillance, South Korean officials have determined there's activity at a second underground tunnel at Punggye-ri.
Digital Government
Feds want a more robust insurance database before Obamacare rollout
The government will use the contractor-managed repository to evaluate providers and update Healthcare.gov.
Modernization
China may (or may not) be behind the Twitter hack
Twitter revealed that roughly a quarter million accounts have been compromised by hackers.
Emerging Tech
Ahmadinejad wants to be Iran’s first astronaut
His announcement comes after the country claimed to have successfully launched a monkey into space.
Emerging Tech
HHS innovator seeks better digital digs
The solicitation filed on RFP-EZ, a contracting site developed by Presidential Innovation Fellows.
Cybersecurity
China hacked the Wall Street Journal, too
Hackers infiltrated the newspaper to monitor its coverage of China.
Emerging Tech