Cybersecurity
Cyber Bill Boosts DHS Cyberthreat Sharing but Critics Fear Backdoor to NSA Surveillance
The $1.1 trillion spending bill creates an instant information-sharing regime housed at DHS.
People
VA hires second-ranking IT official
Ron Thompson, a senior IT official at the Department of Health and Human Services, is getting the number two post at the Office of Information and Technology at Veterans Affairs.
Modernization
NPPD cyber and infrastructure security personnel are side by side
Infrastructure and cybersecurity personnel are now co-located as part of NPPD’s efforts to coordinate cyber and physical threat information.
Digital Government
Protests resolved, GSA launches agile BPA
GSA has resolved protests around its agile Blanket Purchase agreement, added a vendor and can now begin awarding work.
Emerging Tech
Why the Intelligence Community Wants in On Quantum Computing
IARPA wants IBM -- and, soon, other bidders -- to develop the building blocks for a quantum computer.
Digital Government
VA Names New Deputy IT Chief
Ron Thompson, a U.S. Army veteran, has more than 25 years of experience in both government and the private sector.
Emerging Tech
FITARA: How IT Reform Became ‘Sexy’
FITARA is finally beginning to get the kind of attention from Congress, overseers and the public that one might expect of an area in which the government spends upward of $80 billion annually.
Emerging Tech
Video: The Year in Tech
2015 was the year we embraced the future and "Back to the Future."
Modernization
The Environmental Toll of a Netflix Binge
The data centers that support the Internet use a huge amount of energy.
Cybersecurity
Privacy Groups Blast Cyber-Sharing Included in Omnibus Spending Bill
Congress is about to take its biggest step yet to bolster cybersecurity, but many fear it could expand surveillance.
Digital Government
Microsoft Building New Version of Windows 10 to Appeal to Chinese Government
It’s easy to point to the joint venture as evidence of yet another U.S. tech firm cozying up to Beijing to access the massive market.
Digital Government
What's coming from FedRAMP, 18F and USAJobs
GSA's Phaedra Chrousos discussed a wide range of possible revamps at a recent gathering of contract professionals.
Digital Government
Secrecy Shuts Down a National-Security Debate
On Tuesday night, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio clashed over NSA surveillance—but they can’t tell the public what they’re arguing about.
Digital Government
FBI Director Says San Bernardino Shooters Didn’t Post Public Social Media Messages
The attackers sent messages, but they were private and couldn’t have been caught by intelligence.
Modernization
White House sends cyber deterrence policy to Congress
Lawmakers have long asked for such a policy, but the debate is likely only getting started now that they have one.
Cybersecurity
DHS cybersecurity office appeals to industry for innovation
DHS looks for industry to help keep up cyber defense programs like Einstein and CDM.
Digital Government
Micheline Casey heads west
Micheline Casey, the Federal Reserve's first chief data officer, is returning to her private-sector roots in Silicon Valley.
Cybersecurity
More collaboration with tech companies needed to counter Islamic State online
The State Department is continuing its efforts to undermine the Islamic State online, now that militants prefer to use private and sometimes encrypted communications rather than public-facing social media.
Cybersecurity
Defense chief used personal email for official business
The revelation raises questions about the security of information handled by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and revives concerns about email security practices in the Obama administration.
Cybersecurity