Cybersecurity
OPM Announces Official Launch of Self-Check Site for Hack Victims
Visitors can use the Pentagon-hosted website to check if their personal data was stolen in a massive breach of sensitive background investigation files.
Digital Government
DHS Looking for Data Privacy Experts
DHS' Privacy Office is looking for 17 applicants for 3-year terms
Digital Government
How Valuable is Federal Research? It Depends How You Count
It's difficult to pin down the total economic impact of federal R&D.
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.
Modernization
Video: Got an Old Android Device? Here Are 5 Ways to Repurpose it
Reduce, reuse, recycle and embrace the Internet of Things
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.
Modernization