Cybersecurity
The Internet of Things Means Hospitals Are More Hackable Than Ever. The VA is Prepared.
With construction manuals tailored to smart buildings, the Veterans Affairs Department seems prepared for the day when bugs infect its hospitals.
People
DOD's single IT service provider seeks to get synchronized
One challenge the Joint Service Provider has faced is simply getting IT personnel from across the National Capitol Region in the same place.
Digital Government
Making social media monitoring matter
For an agency to be at the top of its social media game, tracking trends is an important part of the strategy.
Modernization
GSA seeks input on cloud services contract
New government-wide acquisition vehicle would cover “all cloud computing services and cloud computing service-based solutions.”
Cybersecurity
OPM Gives Health Insurance Companies New Rules for Reporting Cyberincidents
Last year, both OPM and one of the biggest insurers in the FEHBP program -- Anthem Inc. -- were breached, purportedly by the same band of Chinese state-backed hackers.
Emerging Tech
You’ve Heard of the Internet of Things. Here’s What Comes Next.
The industrial revolution is coming to the Internet of Things, and it has the potential to really change the world.
Digital Government
Pentagon Won't Hit Own Goals for Closing Data Centers
The Defense Department is only on track to close about 44 percent of its data centers. Its goal for the 2018 fiscal year was 60 percent.
Digital Government
FITARA’s Growing Pains: CIOs Raise Concerns
Boosting the authority of agency CIOs when it comes to overseeing IT spending and contracting is one of the key aims of the law -- but it will take some time
Digital Government
2 Out of 3 Developers Are Self-Taught
The answers of the 56,000 people who responded to a recent survey hint at what’s next for technology.
Cybersecurity
DHS: Agencies Reported 321 Cases of Potential Ransomware
In all cases, the "ransomware" infections were neutralized without agencies having to pay up.
Digital Government
Report: Feds Say Data Centers in Danger of Becoming Obsolete
Only 11 percent of l IT managers in a new survey say they believe their agency’s data centers currently meet mission demand.
Cybersecurity
DHS: Over 300 incidents of ransomware on federal networks since June
Two prominent senators had asked the departments of Justice and Homeland Security about the spread of ransomware, which encrypts a computer user’s data until hackers are paid off, usually in the form of a difficult-to-trace crypto-currency.
Emerging Tech
Internet in Space Is About as Slow as Dial-Up
Mankind put a human being on the moon in 1969. In 2016, you can easily watch compelling footage of the space adventure online … that is, unless you’re actually in space.
Modernization
IG: DOD behind on data centers
Consolidating data centers to save money has been a signature initiative of Defense Department CIO Terry Halvorsen, but the DOD inspector general says the department is lagging.
Digital Government
Crowdsourcing the price of everything
To break away from manual price data collection and get a more granular, useful picture of the American economy, the BLS might look to tech being deployed in the developing world.
Digital Government
DOD's Work: Automated data can help beat ISIS
Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work recently returned from Silicon Valley, where he met with an analytics firm that can ingest open-source data and turn it into national security insights.
Modernization
White House pushes Congress to pass $3.1B IT modernization fund
The White House is preparing to send Congress more details on its plan for a revolving $3.1 billion IT modernization fund after the House Budget Committee failed to include the measure in the 2017 budget resolution.
Modernization