Digital Government

DHS Looking for Data Privacy Experts

DHS' Privacy Office is looking for 17 applicants for 3-year terms

Emerging Tech

Pentagon Watchdog: Show Us the Cost Benefit Analysis of Cloud

A forthcoming DOD IG audit may soon shed light on the extent the Pentagon and its components perform cost benefit analysis before acquiring cloud services.

Digital Government

Are These Collaboration Platforms Key to Improving Federal IT?

Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott announced the winning teams of the first-ever CIO Council IT Solutions Challenge.

People

Collaboration rules the CIO Council IT Solutions Challenge

The first batch of contest winners came from diverse agencies, and focused on the problems of coming together in IT and acquisition.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Program Beats Humans On College Acceptance Test

Japanese researchers have created a computer program capable of limited humanistic understanding.

Cybersecurity

Is electronic warfare stuck in the 20th century?

Pentagon officials say the convergence of electronic warfare and cyberspace is upon us, and it presents both opportunities and threats.

Cybersecurity

IRS launches online safety campaign

The IRS has launched an educational series aimed at promoting citizen cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity

Reps shun law enforcement, cheer 'slam-dunk' email legislation

Signaling a growing appreciation for electronic privacy, lawmakers voiced support for an update to the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act over law enforcement protests.

People

DOD urged to go commercial

The Defense Department is being outpaced in technology development by the commercial side. Advisers say, "If you can't beat them, join them."

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.

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.