Digital Government

Future Smartphones Will Tell You What’s Killing Your Plants

By amassing a huge library of leaf images, scientist are training computers to diagnose the diseases that threaten our food supply.

Cybersecurity

Is the Transportation Department doing enough about auto cybersecurity?

GAO says the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration should determine how it would respond to a cyberattack on a high-tech car if it happened on the road.

Modernization

Public/private relationships crucial for tech progress

As innovative technologies such as cloud and big data accelerate, federal IT managers are looking to the private sector for help.

Cybersecurity

When Will We Ever Learn? 92 Percent of Hacks Detected Months After the Fact

Ninety-two percent of all data breaches are detected by someone else besides the target.

Cybersecurity

Senator looks to counter botnets

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) teased plans for legislation against the scourge of botnets at a Georgetown appearance.

Digital Government

The money factory needs a CTO

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is seeking a new "currency technology officer."

Cybersecurity

DARPA seeks to boost cyber attribution

DARPA wants to use biometrics and other tools to improve a key element of U.S. cyber deterrence strategy.

Cybersecurity

My Bad! Employee Slipups Lead to More Government Hacks Than Cyber Espionage

Often, the accidental breaches were discovered while in the process of dissecting intentional hacks.

Modernization

NSA official: ICITE could boost metadata capabilities

Regardless of the source of metadata, "you're going to get improvements by merit of how the data is tagged and how the attributes are assigned," NSA Deputy CIO Sally Holcomb said.

Cybersecurity

FEMA tunes into social media for operations

FEMA is adding public-facing social media to the operational data streams used by its watch centers in civil emergencies.

Cybersecurity

Risky clicks continue to keep too many hackable

In its latest data breach report, Verizon's team lays out the tried-and-true methods hackers are using to own enterprises – and the ways enterprises can fight back.

Emerging Tech

Q&A: The Nanotech Future of the American Farm

USDA's nanotech team thinks small sensors could help farmers grow more with less.

Modernization

GSA sets summer expectations for EIS, Alliant 2

GSA has given vendors a heads-up on the next steps for its $50 billion EIS telecom contract and the Alliant RFPs.

Emerging Tech

GE Building World’s Largest Jet Engine with 3-D Printed Parts

The company has been quick to use 3-D-printing technology, computer-aided design and new materials to render parts once impossible to make using conventional methods.

Emerging Tech

Because of Technology, Future Presidents Might Have to be Groomed from Birth

Increasingly-connected technologies will capture all of our missteps and store them forever, one expert says.

Cybersecurity

Officials talk candidly about workforce cyber hygiene

Better governance, improved accountability and more training are needed to improve cybersecurity.