Modernization

Pentagon: We Want You — to Get Us Into The Cloud Much Faster

We need the private sector's help to vault DOD into the world of elastic computing and machine learning.

Acquisition

Agency reorgs slow down recompetes

One major federal contractor is seeing more bridge contracts as agencies put the brakes on procurements while reorganizations take shape.

Cybersecurity

OPM Cybersecurity Still Lags Three Years After Massive Breach

The office’s cybersecurity maturity is at level 2 out of a possible 5, an auditor said.

Cybersecurity

Hundreds Attend Federal Cyber and Tech Hiring Fair

Some agencies are making on-the-spot job offers during the two-day event.

Digital Government

Google's Mass-Shooting Misinformation Problem

When no reputable information is available, the search engine promotes fake news.

Digital Government

VA To Run Massive Survey of High-Risk Vets

Electronic medical records don’t always tell the full story of a veteran’s healthcare.

Cybersecurity

How a Commerce Department Standards Agency Grew Into a Cybersecurity Powerhouse

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has a hand in nearly every aspect of government cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity

What governments can learn from the original Russian cyber attack

Ten years after Estonia's networks came under siege from a Russian botnet, a group of officials gathered to discuss how the incident helped shape the future of cyber warfare.

People

VA looks to Congress to improve cost management

The Department of Veterans Affairs also plans to roll out a series of initiative throughout November to improve its veterans' benefits services.

Modernization

Here's How to Actually Use the iPhone X

Without a home button, quite a few things are different.

Digital Government

How Racial Data Gets 'Cleaned' in the U.S. Census

The national survey offers more identity choices than ever—until those choices get scrubbed away.

Modernization

What it Will Take to Keep Trump Tweeting From Behind China’s Great Firewall

While China’s massive censorship machine technically blocks Chinese citizens from using Twitter, there are ways around it.

Digital Government

Mapping destruction after Harvey and Irma

Analysis of high resolution satellite images yielded data that supported recovery efforts after Harvey and Irma.

Digital Government

My Boston airport lost and found stories: good government, good citizens

Sometimes, Steve Kelman writes, the system works.

Digital Government

Clothes Made From a Data-Storing Fabric Will Remember Pass Codes For You

"You can think of the fabric as a hard disk."

Digital Government

The UN Is Using Ethereum’s Technology to Fund Food for Thousands of Refugees

The blockchain technology could slash the costs of delivering aid.

Digital Government

Fate of Chief Data Officers Relies on Which Data Transparency Bill Passes

Two different versions of the OPEN Government Data Act are working their way through Congress.

Digital Government

Congress to Grill DHS Nominee, Former Yahoo and Equifax CEOs

And that evidence-based policy bill is moving through the House at a quick clip.

Digital Government

Advice From a Real "Woman of NASA," for Kids Who Dream of Working in Science

Words of wisdom from Margaret Hamilton who wrote the code who got us to the moon.

Emerging Tech

A Stray Dog Became the World’s First Cosmonaut 60 Years Ago Today

She was the first living being to leave the Earth’s orbit.