Modernization
Transportation bill includes recall tech upgrades
The long-term transportation bill pending in Congress would establish an online database of information on vehicle recalls and facilitate information sharing among critical infrastructure providers in emergencies.
Ideas
Technology for All: The Need For A More Accessible Workplace
Some employers perceive accessibility accommodations to be prohibitively expensive to the business. In reality, the opposite is true.
Digital Government
Why Electromagnetic Spectrum Weapons Are the Future of Warfare
Here’s a brief glimpse of what those battles will look like.
Digital Government
Copyright Office Needs More Tech and Data Experts
The office needs to hire at least 150 new tech staff, officials told Congress.
Emerging Tech
Commerce Data Chief: Tech Can Make the Patent Process 'A Hell of a Lot Easier'
Patent applications could be processed faster if patents were machine readable.
Emerging Tech
NASA Celebrates 20 Years of Heliophysics
This spacecraft has kept an eye toward the center of our solar system.
Digital Government
State Department on the Hunt for Electronic System to Manage Emails
Under a presidential mandate, agencies must manage all email records in an electronic format by the end of 2016.
Digital Government
Report: China has arrested alleged OPM hackers
The Chinese government has reportedly arrested the hackers responsible for the OPM breach, which it claims was a "criminal," not state-sponsored, hack.
Digital Government
Kerber leaves GSA
Jennifer Kerber is resigning as director of the General Services Administration's Connect.gov program to take a private-sector job.
Digital Government
Why Is the Wildly Popular Email Privacy Act Still Stuck in Congress?
More than 300 House members—a majority of the body—have signed on as cosponsors.
Digital Government
4 Ways To Foster Innovation in the Office, According to Google
Google has become a champion of evidence-based management and is helping other organizations do the same.
Ideas
4 Government Tech Priorities That Need a Funding Boost Next Year
Getting the government’s security standards up to par will require significant investments.
Digital Government
How CDOs are putting 'useless' data to work
Cleaning, cataloguing, counseling – it's all part of the job for agency data gurus as they seek to surface useful data for their colleagues and customers.
Cybersecurity
DHS looking to biometrics, more shared info on VWP
DHS is proposing changes to the Visa Waiver Program that would expand the use of biometrics, the sharing of information with Interpol and modifications to existing background check databases.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers Want National Security Damage Assessment on OPM Hack
The House version of the 2016 Intelligence Authorization Act mandates a report on whether the hack disrupted overseas operations.
People
OMB director announces new privacy panel
OMB Director Shaun Donovan announced the creation of a new Federal Privacy Council which will be formed in 2016.
Cybersecurity
Air Force Space Command not spending on cyber defense of weapons systems
The Air Force Space Command did not spend a penny on cybersecurity for weapons systems in the last fiscal year. Air Force CIO Lt. Gen. William Bender is trying to change that.
Digital Government
VA taking free advice from tech firms on scheduling
The Veterans Affairs chief and a Virginia lawmaker applaud the public/private partnership working on fixing the troubled VA medical scheduling system.
Cybersecurity