Emerging Tech

Interior Wants To Know How To Manage Its Huge Social Media Presence

The department issued a sources sought notice seeking tools to manage its 1,500 social media accounts.

Artificial Intelligence

Why Retail’s Artificial intelligence Bet Is All Wrong

Many retailers have forgotten what really helps customers

Digital Government

Are postal carriers out as potential census takers?

Lawmakers are pressing the Census Bureau's decision to ditch a pilot program to test postal workers as enumerators in the 2020 population count.

People

FBI taps veteran agent to head IT shop

The FBI named John S. Adams to serve as the executive assistant director of its Information and Technology Branch.

Cybersecurity

White House names deputy undersecretary for DOD R&E

Lisa Porter, the executive vice president of CIA venture arm In-Q-Tel and director of IQT Labs, would help run the Pentagon's newly reorganized IT and R&D operations.

Ideas

Here's a Discovery That Could Lead Us To Lightsabers

A new form of light could lead to breakthroughs in quantum computing ... and maybe lightsabers.

Modernization

DOD CIO: JRSS set for 2019 completion

Acting Defense Department CIO Essye Miller said the massive Joint Regional Security Stacks program is nearly 60 percent completed and on track to be done by the end of 2019.

Digital Government

How Agencies Can Effectively Implement Artificial Intelligence

Managing data, workforce, and risk are key to success.

Digital Government

A New Company Is Taking Remote Work’s Flexibility to the Extreme

In the digital age, if you have the freedom to work anywhere, why not try to go somewhere?

Cybersecurity

CBP closes in on completing 17-year multibillion IT project

Customs and Border Protection is nearing the end of development of one of the most complex IT systems in the federal government.

Digital Government

Congress Mulls a CIO's Authority, Future of Homeland Security and Data Breaches

And one caucus is concerned about climate change data vanishing form federal websites.

Digital Government

How to Make Better Use of Everything You Read

Thankfully, tech can be an ally in this quest.

Digital Government

Hiring Good Coders Shouldn't Be That Big a Gamble—And Now it No Longer Has to Be

Solving the challenge of knowing who you’re really hiring before they walk in the door is an age-old conundrum

Cybersecurity

CERTs warn on botnets, kernel bugs

Separate cybersecurity alerts from DHS indicate new botnet attack vectors and updates the list of industrial control system vendors facing Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities.

Digital Government

NASA’s Next Space Telescope Is Running Out of Time

The James Webb, Hubble’s successor, may face more delays and even exceed its budget, according to a new government report.

Emerging Tech

DHS To Put First Responder Tech to the Test

Can commercial tech hold up in a mock disaster? The agency’s Science and Technology Directorate wants to find out.

Emerging Tech

Could This Alliance Finally Improve In-Flight Internet?

The friendly skies could get friendlier—at least for your devices.

Digital Government

FBI Selects New Tech Leader From Its Own Ranks

A 20-year veteran of the bureau will facilitate the FBI’s modernization efforts as head of the Information and Technology Branch.

Cybersecurity

Why the Energy Department needs a cyber program

The DOE wants $96 million in fiscal 2019 to fund a cybersecurity office to help manage threats facing the energy grid.

Policy

Congress Kicks Off Discussions About Trump’s Infrastructure Plan

There were frictions over issues involving funding and environmental permitting in a hearing on Thursday.