Ideas
Cracking Open Windows 10: Can Windows 10 Serve and Protect Government Users?
Moving from Windows 7, the last “traditional” operating system from Microsoft, to Windows 10 is not going to be as traumatic as previous Windows updates.
Emerging Tech
DISA Issues Pentagon-Friendly Cloud Computing Guide
The guide is aimed at DOD “mission owners” planning to move an existing information system from a physical environment to a virtualized cloud environment.
Digital Government
Interior Department Website Gets a New Look
The Interior Department has consolidated its many digital arms into one updated website.
Acquisition
Removing acquisition roadblocks — together
Government innovation is a no-go unless agencies, prime contractors and startups come together to clear the path.
Cybersecurity
IARPA tries to predict the unpredictable
The agency is seeking information on methods for forecasting rare events and alternative ways of assessing such methods.
People
Brubaker joins IT Cadre
Former DOD executive and two-time Fed 100 winner had recently left AirWatch.
Modernization
Prioritizing authentication, GitHub attacked, Carter back to Silicon Valley and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms CIO Announces Exit
In an email to ATF staff, Rick Holgate said he’s leaving the agency to accommodate a move to Vienna, Austria.
Cybersecurity
Video: Watch These Guys Hack an Electric Skateboard
How hackers could make you hang ten.
Cybersecurity
The Nation’s 24-Hour Cyber Watch Center Still Has Some Empty Seats
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center might have some communication challenges.
Acquisition
Army cyber training, an $850M comms contract, DOJ seeks a CISO and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Emerging Tech
Pentagon Debunks DOD-VA Interoperability Myth
“There is not a big interoperability problem with the VA and DOD today,” according to Frank Kendall, DOD undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics.
Digital Government
White House Looking for Help on Personalized Medicine Technology
The administration is collecting suggestions from the general public about improving personalized medicine.
Emerging Tech
Supper Club on Mars
Before people can colonize the Red Planet, they have to figure out what they'll eat once they get there.
People
Holgate to depart ATF
Former ACT president will take a job with Gartner, follow his spouse to Vienna, Austria.
Modernization
Future Technologies Must Be Designed to Free Us From our Screen Addiction
Every digital experience is self-aware, tweaking and customizing itself to be better, more enticing—to suck users further in and increase its all-important “active users” metric.
Modernization
The new RFI: Request for innovation
The natural tendency of RFPs and RFIs to protect outdated architectures must be overcome if FITARA is to succeed.
Cybersecurity
Labor CIO pushes back against critical IG report
Dawn Leaf defended the department's efforts to implement two-factor authentication and raised concerns about the 'completeness and accuracy' of the IG's findings.
Ideas