Digital Government

Agencies Should Watch Out for Unethical AI, Report Warns

AI will figure prominently in government services, a report from Harvard's Ash Center predicts.

Artificial Intelligence

Feds Take Next Step In Spreading Blockchain Tech

The federal government's buying hub is hosting a workshop about integrating new technology in early September.

Modernization

The Supercharged Facial Recognition of the Iphone 8

Have your face scanned in just a few millionths of a second.

Digital Government

Drones Will Help Protect Guam From North Korean Missiles

A June 2016 test showed that drones can track missiles, promising better protection for forces and allies under threat of a North Korean missile strike

Modernization

Are federal agencies ready to bail on data centers?

High-level IT officials across several agencies are ready to say goodbye to on-premise infrastructure.

Cybersecurity

Unfilled DHS slots no barrier to border wall effort

Can the Department of Homeland Security focus on the border wall project without permanent leaders in key spots?

Cybersecurity

McCain slams slow pace of cyber policy

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee wants to see the Trump administration move faster on implementing cybersecurity policy.

Artificial Intelligence

We’re Experiencing the Harry Potterification of Technology

Everyday objects are becoming enchanted as if they’ve been torn from the pages of a Rowling novel.

Modernization

Three vendors win SSA's $7.8 billion IT services contract

The Social Security Administration has selected CGI Federal, Leidos and Northrop Grumman for a potential 10-year, $7.8 billion contract for IT services.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Is Fixing a Simple Reason Why Voice Assistants Are So Bad

The tech company hopes to smarten up our dumb bots by making a new dataset available to the public.

Cybersecurity

Hackers Target Phones to Get Access to Cryptocurrencies

Financial Services // Web Services

Modernization

Take a Bite Out of Android Oreo

A new operating system should be all about the filling.

Digital Government

How VA Turns Survey Data into Better Veteran Health Care

Real-time feedback could help the Veterans Affairs Department direct respondents to task forces for suicide or homelessness.

Ideas

Lessons from the First Phases of Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program

Successful CDM Program implementation relies on the active participation of agency executives and IT managers and here is how to get their buy-in.

Digital Government

White House details 2019 R&D priorities

The administration is directing agencies to lean more on the private sector and to tilt their future research and development priorities -- and dollars -- toward defense technologies, border security, economic growth, efficient health care and low-cost energy sources.

Digital Government

Trump’s Multibillion-Dollar Border Wall Wouldn’t Stop This $5,000 Drone

Earlier this month, border patrol agents intercepted a methamphetamine shipment that had been dropped off via drone on the U.S. side of the border.

People

Oversight chairs probe political activities of feds

The chairs of two congressional oversight committees want answers about agencies' policies on granting unpaid leave requests to employees for campaign activity.

Cybersecurity

Senate bill bans joint cyber initiative with Russia

The intelligence authorization bill also mandates a governmentwide plan to combat election hacking and makes changes to personnel policy for cyber professionals.