Digital Government

Love Your Co-Workers? Silicon Valley Startup Offers to Hire Entire Teams

People work best in teams. Companies mostly hire individuals. It's a hiring conundrum.

Modernization

Amazon Launches Cloud Marketplace for Spy Agencies

“It’s a big deal and we’ve all been waiting,” one NSA official says.

Cybersecurity

Senators Call on White House to Speed Up Cybersecurity Guidance

The current policy on the books dates back to 2000.

Digital Government

These NASA Inventions Are Saving Thousands of Lives on Earth

NASA’s Technology Transfer Program makes the technologies it develops for space missions accessible to the public.

Cybersecurity

The FBI’s Most-Wanted Cybercrooks

The agency’s list is growing as foreign hackers continue to attack the U.S.

Cybersecurity

NIST looks to reengineer thinking about cyber

NIST is set to release an overhauled systems security engineering document it hopes will spur construction of better cybersecurity systems from the start.

Digital Government

House passes email protection bill

House-passed updates to the 30-year-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act eliminate differences in the way locally and remotely stored email messagess are treated when it comes to law enforcement access.

Digital Government

Senators press OMB for A-130 update

Two key senators are getting impatient waiting for a new version of a key piece of governmentwide IT policy that hasn't been updated in 15 years.

Digital Government

12 Inventions That Could One Day Change the World

The European Patent Office announced its annual shortlist for its European Inventor Awards, which honors a range of scientists across industries.

Modernization

Nokia Bets Big on the Internet of Things with $191M Acquisition

The company Withings makes a Wi-Fi-connected scale, air-quality monitors for the home, and smart watches and baby monitors.

Artificial Intelligence

Vint Cerf: Buggy Software Is Scarier Than A Robot Takeover

Google's chief internet evangelist doesn't think our current AI technology is capable of taking over humans.

Digital Government

Tech Industry Lines up Behind IT Modernization Fund Proposal

Signing on to statements of approval are executives from Northrop Grumman, Cisco, Dell, Intel, CSRA and the pro-business U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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.