Cybersecurity
Your Personal Information Was Hacked. Now What?
The Federal Trade Commission released a new video to guide data-breach victims through what to do next.
Emerging Tech
'To Have Strong Innovation, You Need a Strong State': How Silicon Valley Gets the Future Wrong
Will we all have a Jetsons life if we just let Silicon Valley do its thing?
Modernization
Video: Tesla's Improved Software Interface
Update your car the way you update your phone.
Digital Government
Senators renew calls for cyber deterrence
Lawmakers continue to press the Obama administration to take more forceful action against alleged Russian hacking in order to deter future cybercrimes.
Digital Government
IG: GSA’s Schedules Program Pricing Issues Cost Taxpayers
The audit also found instances where the Schedules Program is not providing the lowest overall cost alternative to government customers.
Cybersecurity
Solving the federal IT workforce problem
Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) argues that potential answers to the federal government’s IT workforce gap lie in expanding youth programs and partnerships between public and private sectors.
Artificial Intelligence
Stealing an AI Algorithm and its Underlying Data is a 'High-School Level Exercise'
Billions of dollars are being poured into building sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms. But they could all be snatched away if even a tiny door is left open.
Cybersecurity
New schedule for military EHR rollout is imminent
After missing a congressionally mandated deadline, the Defense Department is prepping a new schedule for the rollout of its electronic health record.
Emerging Tech
White House Unveils Data Sharing Platform for Climate Change Research
A public-private partnership, including Microsoft, Google and Amazon Web Services, aims to open up climate-related data.
Digital Government
Legislators call for better implementation of transparency legislation
Reps. Darrell Issa and Mike Quigley are calling for more timely action on new legislation and greater enforcement of current laws to improve transparency in government.
Cybersecurity
How the US Air Force is Rapidly Mobilizing For Cyber War
New ideas about defense and new tables of organization are reshaping the service’s ideas about battle.
Modernization
House passes IT modernization bill
The Modernizing Government Technology Act of 2016, a bill to authorize funds to replace legacy IT, passed the House on a voice vote.
Cybersecurity
Nextgov Ebook: Combating the Insider Threat
Learn how agencies are protecting themselves against both the careless employee and the one who went rogue.
Cybersecurity
9 States Accept DHS' Election Security Support
Homeland Security Jeh Johnson urges more states to take up the department's offer.
Cybersecurity
Cyber Bill Would Let Agency Heads Be Fired If There’s a Data Breach
The bill would also allow OMB's director to ensure the agency head doesn't get "any cash or pay awards or bonuses for a period of one year after submission of the explanation" for the incident.
Emerging Tech
Video: White House, NASA Officials Discuss Asteroid Redirect Mission
The mission's robotic spacecraft will launch in 2021 and fly to an asteroid and capture a chunk of it using an enhanced gravity tractor to bring it back to orbit our moon.
Cybersecurity
Ransomware Attacks on Government Agencies Tripled in Past Year
About 4 percent of government agencies have been exposed to Nymaim, a ransomware strain, and 3 percent to Locky.
Digital Government
How FITARA Changed the CIO Game
Legislation gave CIOs new visibility into their own agencies.
Modernization