Ideas
Beating FISMA Stigma: 3 Steps to Reduce Friction Between IT Managers and IGs
Agencies that experience ongoing adversity between these internal offices should consider taking steps in the following three areas.
Digital Government
Report: Almost Half of IT Migrations Doomed to Fail
Successful migrations are likely to play a large role in the success or perceived failure of modernization efforts across the federal landscape.
Emerging Tech
Why CDC Wants to Tap Into Wearables
The agency is investigating wearable sensors that can alert first responders about radiation and chemical release.
Cybersecurity
Could a Name Change Clarify What DHS' Cyber Team Actually Protects?
A rebranding could help telegraph that our digital lives and physical safety now are intertwined, says the directorate head.
Cybersecurity
Can Obama’s cyber commission outlast his administration?
President Obama's recently announced Commission for Enhancing National Cybersecurity has ambitions to produce an actionable framework that will carry over to the next administration and seeks to invigorate a younger, more diverse cybersecurity workforce pipeline.
Digital Government
New White House Open Source Policy Makes it Easier for Agencies to Reuse Custom Software
The new Federal Source Code Policy will also include a pilot program to release some federally funded custom code to the public.
Digital Government
White House wants more sharable, reusable code
Federal CIO Tony Scott is pushing out a plan to allow custom code developed by or for the government to be shared across agencies, and in some cases released to the public.
Digital Government
US Is Going to Let Foreign Students Stay Longer—If They Studied STEM
Tech companies have long argued for immigration reform to let in more skilled workers.
Cybersecurity
Government Officials Just Really Like the Word 'Cyber'
Hacking is not hacking—it’s cybercrime.
Digital Government
GSA Looks for New Schedule 70 Manager to Oversee $15B in Tech Contracts
The agency is looking for someone to lead the largest IT acquisition vehicle in government.
Digital Government
IT Fund Gets a Thumbs Up from CIOs. But is $3 Billion Enough?
The federal government is planning to spend nearly $90 billion a year on IT next year.
Digital Government
Video: Think You Have What it Takes To Be a NASA Astronaut?
The right stuff entails a lot.
Digital Government
DHS creates intel fast lane for select analysts
Report to Congress reveals the department has given some workers special accounts that bypass DHS data access control policies.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon flew handful of drones over U.S. in last decade
A DOD oversight report, released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from FCW and other outlets, sheds light on the complications that arise when the military puts its drones to use domestically.
Digital Government
A New 50-Trillion-Pixel Image of Earth, Every Day
Thanks to a small group of Silicon Valley’s satellite startups, we may never look at our planet again the same way.
Artificial Intelligence
Robots 1, Humans 0: Google DeepMind Is Now Two Go Games Away From Making AI History
The game was once considered beyond the reach of artificial intelligence programs.
Digital Government
The Government Is Secretly Huddling With Companies to Fight Extremism Online
A coalition of civil rights groups wants to be included in the meetings to keep the feds in check.
Cybersecurity
NSA overhaul includes acquisition
"We increasingly need to reach out to commercial companies," many of which are unfamiliar with federal acquisition regulations, said Jennifer Walsmith, NSA's senior acquisition executive.
Cybersecurity
Federal Agencies are Using Last Summer’s ‘Cyber Sprint’ to Justify Sole-Source IT Contracts
Some of these so-called sole-source contracts appear to violate federal contracting rules, according to procurement experts.
Cybersecurity