Digital Government
Government Shared Services Meet Challenges in People, Capital
Shared services continue to face challenges from how agencies are funding to finding the right personnel.
Cybersecurity
Trump May Be on Collision Course with Congress over Russian Hacking
Lawmakers call Russian meddling in the election a threat to democracy; Trump says it never happened.
Emerging Tech
Inside the Secret Meeting Where Apple Revealed the State of its AI Research
Apple is starting to open up about its work.
Emerging Tech
Newest High-Tech Prediction From Google Exec Who Foresaw Rise of Mobile and Cloud
Within a decade, will we be 3-D printing our clothes at home?
Digital Government
What You Don’t Know About Gen. John Kelly
The four-star boy from Boston brings to DHS the grief of losing friends to America’s drug epidemic and a son to the war on terrorism.
Emerging Tech
Video: How NASA Uses Teamwork to Explore Solar System
The agency is wrapping up its Cassini mission in an unusual way.
People
Making a market for shared services
OMB and GSA have spent the last year bringing structure to agencies' back-office system needs. Now they have to keep it moving for the next administration.
Cybersecurity
85M User Accounts Compromised from Video-sharing Site Dailymotion
Entertainment // Web Services
Artificial Intelligence
Truckers Think Automation Won’t Take Their Jobs for 40 Years. Silicon Valley Strongly Disagrees.
The disconnect about the timing for the arrival of such technology, and the political forces it may unleash, reveals a massive split in how the groups believe the transport industry will evolve.
Cybersecurity
Dems push for Russia hacking investigation
The ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and others in Congress including one top Republican want to air allegations of Russian cyber interference in the U.S. elections. President-elect Trump has dismissed the assertions by U.S. spies as politically motivated.
Cybersecurity
Why the federal CISO can't sleep
Federal cybersecurity officials are incorporating advice from the industry advisory group NSTAC into incident response policy.
Digital Government
The Government Finally May Have Found All Its Data Centers
Agencies have closed 4,300 of nearly 11,000 data centers.
Digital Government
CIO Authority 'Still a Major Issue' Across Government
Neither of the CIOs called to testify before the House committee—Luke McCormack at the Homeland Security Department and Frontis Wiggins of the State Department—report to the top two positions within their agencies.
Modernization
Government Spies Can See Everything You’re Doing With Your Phone on a Plane
If you like your privacy, don’t fly the friendly skies with your phone connected to in-flight networks.
Cybersecurity
Gen. John Kelly picked to head DHS under Trump
The president-elect has selected another retired Marine general for his cabinet -- John F. Kelly to head the Department of Homeland Security.
Digital Government
Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil on the Cold Destructiveness of Big Data
What happens when algorithms make troublingly unfair decisions?
Ideas
Modernizing IT Infrastructure is Critical to Combating Today’s Threats
Legacy systems carry innate vulnerabilities because of their age.
Cybersecurity
How will Trump tackle legacy IT?
In order to advance policy priorities, the next administration will have to navigate a government that is both reliant on and slowed by legacy IT. Exactly how remains an open question.
Emerging Tech
GSA Has New E-Signature Software
Adobe is selling the technology as a way to help agencies comply with security standards for online services.
Emerging Tech