Cybersecurity
Chip maker AMD faces claims of new bugs
Security researchers from an Israeli company claim to have found over a dozen major bugs in AMD products, but infosec specialists have raised questions around the report's credibility and disclosure timeline.
Cybersecurity
Trump fills out intelligence oversight board
The same day the nation's top diplomat was fired and a new CIA director announced, President Trump announced plans to fill out the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, including the addition of a former White House deputy CTO.
Modernization
Defense Agency To Begin Moving Classified Data to Amazon's Secret Cloud After Protest
Microsoft withdrew a bid protest that allows U.S. Transportation Command to begin migrating data to Amazon’s secret cloud region.
Emerging Tech
You Can Now 3D-Print a House in Under a Day
It's fully up to code and permitted for people to inhabit.
Digital Government
A Former Google Engineer Explains How Creative Freedom Can Turn People Into Entitled Jerks
Most workers crave autonomy. But it can have a downside.
Emerging Tech
FAA Expands Instant-Approval Flight Plan Program for Drones
Once deployed, the system would authorize drone flights in minutes instead of months.
Cybersecurity
How the Government’s Cyber Agency Rates on Cybersecurity
The annual FISMA report shows where the Homeland Security Department—the government’s point agency on cyber issues—can improve its own information security.
Ideas
How to Improve Federal Cybersecurity Efforts
The public sector can, and should, play a larger role in helping ensure massive breaches don’t happen again.
Digital Government
Air Pollution Is Bad for Productivity, Even in Office Jobs
This conclusion is based on a decade of research.
Modernization
Service heads quiet on DOD cloud plan
At a D.C. defense policy event, the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force skirted the issue of the Pentagon's centralized cloud procurement strategy.
Cybersecurity
Warner: U.S. is unprepared for cyber threats
The vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee believes the U.S. is facing 21st century threats with obsolete technology and old ways of thinking.
Acquisition
GSA extends wireless bulk buying plan
Citing savings and a developing agile contracting vehicle, GSA gives federal customers more time to work with its wireless blanket purchase agreements.
Emerging Tech
A New Way Drone Hobbyists Are Endangering First Responders
Amateurs flying unmanned aerial vehicles have previously grounded firefighting aircraft. Now, their devices are actually sparking wildfires.
Cybersecurity
If War Comes, Russia Could Disconnect from the Internet. Yes, the Entire Country
Robust internal networks will keep the military and government operating, says Putin’s top IT advisor.
Digital Government
Raytheon, Palantir win $876M battlefield tech contract
After years of protests and legal wrangling, Palantir is finally part of the Army's battlefield intel analytics system.
Digital Government
Congress Checks In On Modernizing Government Technology Act Progress
The Homeland Security reauthorization bill advances but loses an amendment on election security.
Modernization
DOD's latest cloud moves leave plenty of questions
Speculation is still swirling about the implications of the draft solicitation for JEDI -- and about why a separate agreement for cloud-migration services was scaled back so dramatically.
Digital Government
British Airways To Expand Boarding Gate Biometrics
Biometrics is becoming more common in U.S. airports.
Emerging Tech