Digital Government
Smarter regulation through data science
How analytics offers a low-cost alternative to regulation when it comes to monitoring risks to the financial system.
Modernization
How to Set Up Emergency Contacts On Your Smartphone
It's a small step now but could help immensely one day.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Is 2017’s Version of the White Walkers—And You Don’t Want to Be a Non-Believer
Among those who do recognize the threat, no one has a clear strategy to stop the enemy.
People
OPM offers flex for Harvey hiring
The Office of Personnel Management reminded agencies that there are exceptions in place to fast-track hiring of critical need positions, despite the federal hiring slowdown.
Modernization
Using Twitter to Save a Newborn From a Flood
Search and rescue is evolving fast in the social-media age.
Ideas
How Endpoint Security Can Help Secure the Human
Hackers use a wide variety of tactics to enter networks and often that means finding a human to dupe.
Cybersecurity
DISA's new vice director focuses on cyber tools for battle
Navy Rear Adm. Nancy Norton will help oversee the Defense Information Systems Agency's 8,000 employees and manage an $11 billion budget.
Modernization
FAA, FCC tackle hurricane complications
Unauthorized drones in the air over hurricane disaster zone and telecommunications outages are among the myriad issues facing response agencies as Hurricane Harvey churns through Texas.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Focus on Money By Spreading Adware and Porting Cellphone Numbers
Turns out two-factor authentication only works when you control your phone number.
Cybersecurity
Senate Intel Bill Bars Creation of U.S.-Russia Cyber Working Group
The bill would also label Wikileaks a non-state hostile intelligence service and encourage government bug bounties.
Digital Government
DARPA Wants Bots To Protect Us From Cyber Adversaries
The military research unit is looking for technology and software that can identify networks that have been infiltrated—and neutralize them.
Digital Government
No, USS McCain Probably Wasn’t Hacked. But What If It Was?
Amid the wild speculation that a foreign nation might have hacked a U.S. warship, it's worth looking at the implications for international law.
Acquisition
Crunch time for funding on Capitol Hill
A near-perfect storm of legislative deadlines threaten a government shutdown if Congress and the president can't find a path to a funding bill by the end of the fiscal year.
Emerging Tech
Driverless Cars Will Make A Lot of Jobs Better, Not Destroy Them
A recent report from the Commerce Department identified 11.7 million workers in occupations for which driving is an important task.
Cybersecurity
Report: Government Cybersecurity Lags Behind Restaurants, Retail Outlets
The public sector placed 15th in a ranking of 17 different industries' cybersecurity in a report released this week
Cybersecurity
Digital rights advocates slam DOJ data request
Nearly 80 civil and digital rights organizations wrote a letter to the Department of Justice objecting to its "overly broad" data request aimed at a website that coordinated inauguration protests.
Digital Government
Can Congress save the 2020 census?
As the Census Bureau has had to cancel or suspend programs to cope with budgetary constraints, Congress is going to have to ramp up funding and oversight down the home stretch to avoid a failed count.
Acquisition
First CDM Phase 3 task order hits the street
GSA has issued the first task order for the third phase of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation cybersecurity program and looks for potential bidder responses by September.
Artificial Intelligence