Cybersecurity
Physical security tech goes nuclear
Sandia Labs' SecuritySeal device for locking down nuclear materials can also secure more everyday items.
Digital Government
NTIS tries to refocus on data
The new plan is for the National Technical Information Service to become a hub for open data, but some in Congress would still like to shut the agency down.
Cybersecurity
House Panel Dents Budget for Cyber Tool That Scoped out OPM Breaches
Citing proposed pay raise costs and concerns about contracts for the EINSTEIN tool, lawmakers pass $5 million reduction.
Digital Government
Q&A: The Case for Crowdsourcing War Games
Washington-based consulting firm WikiStrat is polling its a network of 2,000 experts for war game simulations.
Digital Government
How Much Damage Can OPM Hackers Do With a Million Fingerprints?
The pilfering of 1.1 million fingerprints is “probably the biggest counterintelligence threat in my lifetime,” one former NSA official said.
Modernization
Supercomputer centers, drone privacy and intel desktops
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
Video: The Booming Business of Baby-Boomer Tech
Some valuable apps for those reaching their golden years.
Digital Government
Defending the Digital Consumer
FTC Commissioner Julie Brill prepares for the day there is no Internet.
Emerging Tech
Here's What Pluto Looks Like on Instagram
New Horizons sped past Pluto at 30,800 miles per hour, while its suite of instruments gathered data about the dwarf planet.
Modernization
How To Break Into the CIA’s Cloud on Amazon
Looking to steal America’s spy data from Amazon? Hope you’re up for a challenge.
Cybersecurity
OPM Says 84,000 Hack Victims Still Not Notified
Are you affected? There’s a hotline to call.
People
I am woman, hear me code
The third annual D.C. hackathon for women in tech is taking place Aug. 8 -- part of a much larger effort to diversify the IT ranks.
Digital Government
Pluto flyby earned NASA social media gold
NASA tweeted up a storm, engaged openly tongue-in-cheek on Twitter and gave Instagram the first look at a historic moment in U.S. space exploration history.
Cybersecurity
Transportation Command upbeat in cyber progress report
Ten months after a Senate Armed Services Committee report faulted Transportation Command's cyber posture, the commander and his potential successor said progress has been made.
Cybersecurity
House bill would halve digital services request at DHS
The administration wants to use a tech team to fast-track better immigration data reporting, but the House is holding the line on funding
People
Hruby to begin as Sandia director
Longtime national labs official will be the first woman to lead one of the Energy Department's nuclear security laboratories.
Acquisition
A better path to fair and reasonable pricing
The Commercial Sales Practices approach sets a trap that can snare even diligent contractors. Government and industry both deserve a smarter solution.
Emerging Tech
Justice Department Plans Major Office Tech Upgrade
DOJ envisions an “office of the future,” which would revamp much of the technology agency employees use.
Emerging Tech
New Energy Research Teams to Prep for Supercomputers Arriving in 2017
The teams are tasked with making sure existing applications can work on the new machines.
Acquisition