People
White House names acquisition leaders at DOD, Air Force
The Trump administration announced picks for assistant secretary of defense for acquisition and acquisition head at the Air Force.
Cybersecurity
IARPA awards translator tech contracts
The intelligence community's research arm taps major research universities, NIST to create a universal text translator for analysis work.
Ideas
Compliance Isn’t Security—But It Helps
For more secure networks, federal IT teams should balance compliance exercises with risk management strategies.
Digital Government
Iceland Has a Simple Solution for Closing Gender Pay Gap: Make It Illegal
“We need to make sure that men and women enjoy equal opportunity in the workplace."
People
Karen Mummaw named acting CIO at State
A longtime State Department tech official is leading the agency's Information Resource Management Bureau.
Emerging Tech
Half of Puerto Rico Still Doesn’t Have Power—104 Days After Hurricane Maria
Data on the extent of the outage has been hard to come by.
Cybersecurity
Now It's Industry's Turn to Come Up with Botnet Fighting Ideas
A Commerce Department center is seeking partners to make internet-connected devices more secure.
Emerging Tech
How to Reduce Your Screen Time in 2018
If your New Year's resolution is to fight that tech addiction, here are some helpful tips.
Digital Government
A Customs Computer Outage Strands Thousands in Airports, Again
It’s not the first time a Customs and Border Protection system caused headaches for holiday travelers.
Digital Government
8 Overly Confident, Mostly Pessimistic Predictions About Tech in 2018
The bankification of Big Tech, a strange profusion of wheeled vehicles, and more predictions about the year to come.
Modernization
All in for FirstNet
The planned national wireless interoperable emergency responder network got 100 percent buy in, but some stakeholders needed some prodding.
Digital Government
How cross-agency collaboration could improve tech oversight
By working across agency lines, watchdogs could improve tech, cybersecurity and financial oversight governmentwide, but greater resources and authorities may also be needed, according to a new report.
Cybersecurity
Email hygiene mandate takes hold at agencies
While nearly half of federal domains have put policies in place to alert against email spoofing, there's a lot more work to be done.
Digital Government
Four Small Changes That Will Improve Your Career in 2018
These changes could make a big difference in productivity.
Emerging Tech
China’s First Space Lab Is Falling to Earth, Will Probably Miss You
Don't worry too much about falling debris.
Digital Government
Good enough for government work?
Steve Kelman seeks to reclaim the original meaning of the now-disparaging catchphrase.
Acquisition
Alliant 2 protest heads to court
Lawsuits from two firms seek to force GSA to re-evaluate its award for the $50 billion IT product and services contract.
Acquisition
Final hours for Federal 100 nominations
Get your submissions in by noon ET on Wednesday, Jan. 3.
Digital Government
Barack Obama Reflects on Leaving the Presidency
He gave his first major interview as a private citizen to Prince Harry of Wales—discussing his marriage, his aspirations, and the importance of free speech.
Digital Government