Digital Government
How Blockchain Technology Can Prevent the Next Financial Crisis, Disrupt Uber and Give Us Control of Our Data
It is essentially a digital distributed ledger anyone on the internet can access.
Modernization
Hill leaders look to block upgrade in Russian surveillance gear
Russia is seeking to upgrade the digital camera it uses in U.S. surveillance flyovers permitted under the Open Skies Treaty, but some in Congress are hoping to block the move.
Digital Government
Toaster-Sized Satellites Will Revolutionize How We Measure World Food Supply
2,900 people visit 125,000 American farmers each year to survey them about their expected yields.
Digital Government
What the Joint Chiefs’ Email Hack Tells Us About the DNC Breach
The two attacks share a perpetrator and even some techniques. Here’s how to stop them.
Digital Government
White House, Senate at odds over Census funding
The administration is concerned that a Senate appropriations bill starves the Census Bureau of $100 million needed to complete the 2020 Census design.
Cybersecurity
FBI lax on facial recognition privacy, watchdog says
As law enforcement looks to tap advances in facial recognition, a government watchdog warns of the risks to privacy.
Cybersecurity
White House looks to put more muscle behind cyber plan
White House tech officials are looking to put more weight behind CNAP for the next administration.
Modernization
$3 billion worth of IT is about to kick the bucket
Federal CIO Tony Scott is again warning that the government faces a crisis of outmoded IT.
Digital Government
DOD Plans to Eliminate Common Access Cards
Halvorsen said the Pentagon will move to “true multifactor” authentication that would increase DOD’s agility and cut costs and the time to issue the cards themselves.
Digital Government
Medicare chief wants health record vendors to ease access
The head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services put EHR vendors on notice that they had to do more to improve data interoperability.
Digital Government
Navy Is Making a New GPS for Drone Submarines
Right now, GPS signals can barely travel below the surface of the ocean.
Digital Government
LinkedIn May Just Be the Beginning of Mega-Acquisitions for Silicon Valley
The world’s technology giants are sitting on an unprecedented mountain of cash.
Acquisition
DOD officials say IT acquisition rules still woefully outdated
Acquisition reform has typically been iterative, via the annual defense policy bill. That approach has still left acquisition officials wanting for a means of speeding up the process.
Digital Government
A Win for 'Net Neutrality'
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the government's rules, which ensure consumers get equal access to internet.
Emerging Tech
Intelligence Agency Wants to Keep ‘Novel Organisms’ From Threatening Humans
IARPA is hosting a Proposers' Day for businesses in a couple weeks.
Cybersecurity
Russian Hackers Hack Democratic Party Computers
The hackers accessed staff emails, chat logs and volumes of opposition research on Donald Trump.
Cybersecurity
Farenthold: Cyber Will Be Next Administration's Greatest Challenge
Reports of self-radicalized terrorists could force lawmakers to draw boundaries for what citizens can consume on the internet.
Cybersecurity
Watchdog Knocks State Department for Thousands of Zombie Accounts
Most of the inactive accounts have been dormant for more than a year -- in violation of agency policy.
Modernization