Acquisition
How Congress is going to watch FITARA
CIOs are warning lawmakers that they're about to discover the hidden costs of implementation.
Cybersecurity
Booking a satellite, busting on executive orders and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Emerging Tech
NASA Wants to Know if Open Innovation Challenges Are Working
The agency is looking for research on ways to crowdsource, such as through competitions.
Digital Government
Where Customer Experience is Winning (and Losing) in Government
Without the spotlight of a presidential administration or a top-down leadership push, most federal agencies have long fought a losing battle in meaningful customer experience improvements.
Digital Government
Federal CTO: Government Should Take an Active Role in Innovation
On Monday, Megan Smith talked White House digital innovation during the second annual LGBTQ Tech & Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C.
Modernization
Computer Scientists Invented a Way to Turn Your Skin Into a Mobile Touch Pad
A new product called iSkin uses silicon rubber and pressure-sensitive sensors to create an elastic film.
Emerging Tech
Why This Team Is Teaching Robots to Play Jazz
This is the future that researchers, funded by DARPA, are hoping to produce.
Emerging Tech
Video: How 3D Printing Will Literally Make the Future
From health care to housing, it's everywhere.
Digital Government
Someone At DEF CON Made a Drone That Hacks Computers
You can buy it for $2,500 — and turn it into a flying malware injector.
Modernization
Do Police Need a Warrant to See Where a Phone Is?
Right now, no. But that could change soon.
Cybersecurity
Report: China's Spies Read Top US Officials' Private Emails
The intrusion is still going on, a senior official told NBC News.
Emerging Tech
Why Would Anyone Quit Their Jobs at Dream Companies Like Facebook or Google?
Life at a tech giant isn't always what it's cracked up to be.
Digital Government
Hackers to Military: Replace Us With Robots? Ha!
Next year’s Cyber Grand Challenge event will pit humans against machines in a grand hacking war. DEF CON’s war gamers like their chances.
Cybersecurity
DARPA looks to strengthen software
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to develop software "that is inherently resilient to attack."
People
LGBTQ techies take over the White House
Diversity stood at center stage as programmers tackled problems ranging from minority tech hiring to criminal justice reform.
Cybersecurity
DHS cyber appointments, email hacking, NSF grants and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
A nuclear blast from the past
Vintage reel-to-reel data recorders are still spitting out telemetry on weapons tests three decades later.
Cybersecurity
NARA's new FOIA ombudsman settles in
James Holzer moved to the National Archives from the Department of Homeland Security, where he served as senior director of FOIA operations.
Emerging Tech
How Uber Could Contribute to the Future of Spycraft
DNI has quietly released an unprecedented, unclassified 5-year roadmap charting the future of data analysis.
People