Cybersecurity
'Agile' means different things across DHS
As the Department of Homeland Security moves to more nimble technology acquisition efforts, its various components sometimes have different ideas of what that can mean.
Digital Government
Carter: Countering Islamic State online is 'very important'
Defense Secretary Ash Carter and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford see online response as a part of the battle against the Islamic State group.
Emerging Tech
The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
The competition is fierce, the key players are billionaires, but the path—and even the destination—remains uncertain.
People
USDA tackles FITARA
The plan outlines ways the agency CIO can better control IT spending -- and delegate when necessary.
Digital Government
DARPA Kills Program That Would Have Launched Satellites with Fighter Jets
The next-generation rocket fuel involved turned out to be a little too explosive.
Emerging Tech
Here’s How Your Driverless Car Will Communicate With You, According to Google
Google plans to make its cars more communicative with light-up signs, audio cues, mechanical hands, and, eery “robotic eyes".
Cybersecurity
Here's Air Force’s $49.5M Plan to Outsource Cyberweapon and Counterhack Software
SHELTER, the nickname for the mouthful of a project title, is a 5.5-year deal that would add to the Defense Department’s growing arsenal of cyberweapons.
Modernization
Video: Don’t Fall for These Common Smartphone Battery Myths
These misconceptions might have you running for your charger.
Cybersecurity
Senator Labels OPM Breach a ‘Federal Fumble’ of 2015
“The federal government still does not know -- and may not know for years to come -- the extent of the damage done by the massive OPM breach,” the report stated.
Digital Government
Revamping IRS Electronic Fraud Detection Could Waste $18 Million a Year
A new Treasury audit found the IRS planned to run the new and old systems simultaneously.
Modernization
The future of cloud: Moving up the value chain
Cloud technology is reducing costs and enhancing agencies' focus on what to do with data instead of how to store or manage it. And that is only the beginning.
Emerging Tech
Will Social Media Mavens Take Leave of Absence to Help TSA Tweet Better?
TSA is on the hunt for a few good social media experts willing to devote six months to boosting the agency's customer service social media campaign.
People
Government waste playbook highlights 'fumbles'
A host of IT boondoggles are featured in Sen. James Lankford's debut report on wasteful federal spending.
People
Are political appointees 'burrowing' into the bureaucracy?
Republican lawmakers are concerned that political appointees are joining the ranks of career bureaucrats in large numbers, and want the Government Accountability Office to investigate.
Modernization
NSA's bulk data program is shut down
The National Security Agency is replacing a controversial spying program with a new data collection regime approved under the USA Freedom Act.
Cybersecurity
FEMA still lags on IT coordination, watchdog says
The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general says FEMA has improved the way it handles IT projects since the last audit in 2011, but work remains.
Digital Government
The Internet Isn't Available in Most Languages
Despite all the hype about how it has connected the world, the web is more insular than you might think.
Digital Government
Months After Huge Hack, OPM Finally Completes IT Inventory
The agency is still cleaning up from the breaches it announced this summer.
Emerging Tech
Out of the Mouths of Bots
What building a robot in a person's image can reveal about identity and humanity
Cybersecurity