Ideas
Delivering Efficient Citizen-Centered Government
Consider the following five strategies to create a citizen-centric government and to drive governmentwide efficiencies.
Emerging Tech
President of Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator Is Funding Trump Promise-Tracker
“One of the lesson from startups is more measurement almost always leads to better decision making,” Altman says.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Downloaded US Government Climate Data and Stored it on European Servers as Trump Was Being Inaugurated
Many of the programmers who showed up at UCLA for the event had day jobs as IT consultants or data managers at startups.
Digital Government
Video: Analyzing GAO's Decision To Deny Protests of Alliant 2
The contract will be in use for the next 10 years and $65 billion are at stake.
Digital Government
Congress Tackles Cabinet Confirmations, Expands Watchdog Powers
Lawmakers wrapped inaugural week by confirming the nominees for the Defense and Homeland Security secretaries.
Digital Government
How Will We Know Trump’s Inaugural Crowd Size?
It involves satellites and weather balloons.
Digital Government
Obama White House's Message to Trump on Financial Tech: Let FinTech Flourish
In a whitepaper released earlier this week, the Obama administration outlined some policy goals.
Digital Government
5 predictions for federal IT in 2017
As the Trump team takes control, here's what the tech community can expect.
Digital Government
Obama codifies PIF program on last morning in office
President Obama signed a bill making the Presidential Innovation Fellows program a permanent fixture of government, during his last hours in office.
Cybersecurity
Trump Administration Highlights Offensive Cyber in First Moments
The new commander-in-chief noted offensive military cyber capabilities and using offensive cyber to disrupt ISIL
Digital Government
One of Obama's Final Acts Made Presidential Innovation Fellows Program Permanent
Obama signed the law shortly before handing the White House over to President Donald Trump.
Cybersecurity
DHS tackles backlog of unauthorized IT systems
A report by the agency's inspector general says DHS has made progress in cybersecurity training, dual-factor authentication and certifying systems, but more 50 of its unclassified systems still lack authorities to operate.
Digital Government
Rick Perry Shifts from Energy Dept. Eliminator to Advocate
During his confirmation hearing Thursday, the Energy secretary nominee reversed many of the statements he made during his presidential campaign.
Cybersecurity
CIO Council Plans Https Default in 2017
About 70 percent of federal web domains now use https encryption.
Cybersecurity
The Army has been hacked -- and is happy about it
The first “Hack the Army” bug bounty challenge wrapped up in December, and the results are in with 179 participants finding 118 actionable bugs in public-facing Army websites.
People
Connolly warns on workforce changes
The ranking member of the House Oversight Committee's Government Operations panel warns that Congress will look to legislate changes to the federal workforce.
Cybersecurity
The Knowns and Unknowns of Trump’s Cyber Plan
Questions surround how the new president will tackle cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity
Hospital Breach Affects Thousands of Patients
Healthcare and Public Health // Virginia, USA
Digital Government