Ideas
A Tool That Can Keep Federal Data Centers Safe Amid Cloud Chaos
To help secure clouds, agencies need to visibility into nebulous infrastructures.
Acquisition
GSA moves OASIS management team to FEDSIM
Personnel changes at the agency continue with the naming of a new team to manage the popular multiple-award contract for professional services.
Emerging Tech
Will Democrats Need to Break Up Amazon And Google to Beat Donald Trump?
Senate Democrats are taking up an anti-trust platform.
Cybersecurity
The enterprise risk management approach to cybersecurity
Better cybersecurity tools are not even half the battle.
Digital Government
US Navy Gunners Are Testing A Wearable Heads-Up Display
A service lab has turned a lieutenant’s brainstorm into a testable prototype dubbed the GunnAR augmented-reality headset.
Modernization
Navy makes old signals new again
A new project will bring a 200-year-old seaborne communications technology into the current digital ocean.
Cybersecurity
DHS to Pitch in on Cybersecurity for Olympic Games
The final U.S.-Japan Cyber Dialogue under Coordinator Chris Painter reaffirmed the nations’ broader cyber alliance.
Emerging Tech
Windows 10 Users, Here's How to Increase Your Privacy
If you rely on system defaults, you may be sharing more than you realize.
Emerging Tech
Immigration Agency Wants to Blend Data Science, Agile and Security
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services wants information about applying agile development to big data, analytics and machine learning.
Emerging Tech
The World’s First Floating Wind Farm Could be a Game Changer for Renewable Power
If the technology becomes cheaper it will open up parts of the ocean previously considered too deep for stationary turbines.
Ideas
3 Ways to Enhance the Cybersecurity Executive Order
The order acknowledges areas where federal agencies need to spend more time and effort to improve security but there are opportunities to boost its effectiveness.
People
Treasury CIO replaced
Sonny Bhagowalia is moving to a new position at Treasury in the Bureau of the Fiscal Service.
Digital Government
How cloud can take open data to new heights
By removing the storage and transmission barriers, agencies are seeing the use of their datasets explode.
Digital Government
DOE breaks ground for neutrino experiment
The Energy Department is collaborating with international experts to build an underground facility to study the elusive neutrino.
Digital Government
The future of FOIA
Technology alone has not made FOIA operations more efficient and transparent, so a committee led by the National Archives is working with agencies to improve the process.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Can Take Over iPhones, Steal Cryptocurrency Funding and Find Dow Jones Data
Another week in ThreatWatch, another cryptocurrency theft.
Emerging Tech
McKinsey: Robots Can Do About 30% of the Work at Banks, But They Won’t Necessarily Take Jobs
Tasks will be automated, not jobs.
Modernization
Big Banks Are Closing Branches and Investing in More Important Real Estate—Your Phone
More investment is being made in digital wallets.
Digital Government