Ideas
How Can Agencies Prepare for the Software Future?
Federal agencies and their IT teams must adapt from a hardware-centric model to an increasingly software-defined world.
Artificial Intelligence
Your Boss Might Be Better as an Algorithm
One day we will inevitably start working for AI instead of it working for us.
Policy
Agencies a Step Closer to Open Data, Chief Data Officers
The OPEN Government Data Act, tucked inside the Foundations for Evidence-based Policymaking Act, passed the House.
Cybersecurity
House Panel Investigates Retaliation Against HHS Cyber Leads
Leaders of the HHS cyber center were reassigned amid allegations of contracting misconduct.
Policy
IT Modernization Bill Heads to President
Congress passes the Modernizing Government Technology Act as part of the defense authorization bill.
Policy
Lawmakers to Agencies on FITARA: Get It Together
A House oversight committee pushed IT leaders to set more ambitious upgrade goals after its fifth assessment of federal agencies’ technology.
Digital Government
Why the U.S. Fails at Worker Training
Automation and globalization are making some workers’ skills obsolete. Why can’t the federal government figure out how to successfully prepare Americans for the future?
Digital Government
Senate panel grills former Lockheed exec about potential conflicts
John Rood, the Lockheed Martin executive nominated for undersecretary of defense for policy, is drawing questions on how he would treat his former firm.
Digital Government
Silicon Valley's Worship of Innovation Can Get in the Way of Actual Change
Too often the tech industry skips past what it means to make innovation work, especially at scale.
Modernization
MGT passes Congress in 2018 NDAA
The legislative push to get federal agencies up to speed on IT, eliminating creaky and expensive legacy systems will end with the president's signature.
Cybersecurity
Hiccups for CBP's new port system as it nears completion
Customs and Border Protection's years-long march toward a unified import-export data system is nearing conclusion, but not without a couple of last-minute glitches.
Artificial Intelligence
The Field of AI Research Is About to Get Way Bigger Than Code
When it comes to developing artificial intelligence, the largest technology companies in the world are all-in.
Cybersecurity
How to fix information sharing, according to industry
Secret cyber threat data and a clunky clearance process are barriers to bidirectional information sharing, industry representatives told Congress.
Digital Government
Technologists, privacy advocates push back against algorithmic 'extreme vetting'
The Trump administration's plan to use predictive software to rate threats posed by immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers will result in discriminatory decisions, say a group of privacy advocates and computer scientists.
Acquisition
WT wants your take on the agency-contractor relationship
Washington Technology is seeking government input for its latest survey.
Ideas
Here’s How the Federal Reserve Could Guide the Digital Financial Revolution
Blockchain could enable a direct bank-to-bank frictionless payment system that is fast, secure and near real-time.
Digital Government
Acting CIOs Still in Place at One-Third of CFO Agencies
Many of the top tech positions in government remain unfilled.
Digital Government
Bid Protests Decline in 2017
Contractors filed fewer contract protests for the first time since 2013.
Emerging Tech
Firefox Quantum Just Might Transform Your Internet Experience
Mozilla hopes the new browser will draw people away from Google Chrome.
Policy