Modernization

Knowledge transfer through discovery

Rules and data are relatively easy to share, but capturing an organization's deep, experience-based knowledge requires special effort.

Modernization

Aaron Levie: 'You can have a mindset of moving quickly'

Box's CEO discusses innovation, the "black box" of government and getting Silicon Valley to engage with agencies.

Emerging Tech

Driverless Cars Are Coming. Is Congress Ready?

When it comes to transportation, the Hill is starting to think like Tomorrowland.

Cybersecurity

OMB cyber group meeting with a dozen agencies on steps to improve security

New oversight program targets slow progress on two-factor authentication and other cybersecurity practices.

Cybersecurity

White House Orders All Federal Sites Go HTTPS By the End of 2016

Today, most of the federal government's roughly 1,200 websites use HTTP technology, which exposes website content, browser format, search terms and other user information to eavesdroppers.

Digital Government

Syrian Electronic Army Claims Hack of Army Website

The Army’s official website was inaccessible Monday afternoon.

Digital Government

Survey: Federal CIOs Say Cyberattacks are on the Rise and They Can't Compete for Cyber Talent

But more than half of CIOs said it was difficult to compete for professionals with tech expertise, especially because of “limited compensation compared to the private sector."

Emerging Tech

Scientists Are One Step Closer to Predicting Solar Storms

The refrigerator-sized Deep Space Climate Observatory is a joint partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Air Force.

Emerging Tech

When Google Self-Driving Cars Are in Accidents, Humans Are to Blame

The autonomous vehicles have been in a dozen crashes since 2009, but haven’t caused any of them, the company says in a new report.

Cybersecurity

RIP, HTTP

Federal websites will be required to tack on the "s" for "secure" by the end of next year.

Cybersecurity

Syrian hackers say they knocked army.mil offline

The Pentagon acknowledged the hack, but did not confirm the attacker.

Acquisition

Should the National Labs be exempt from FITARA?

Senate bill carves out exemption for supercomputing and other lab IT; an earlier version of the measure would have exempted the entire Department of Energy.

Cybersecurity

OPM records the 'Holy Grail' of counter-intelligence

'Very old systems' and a lot of valuable, unencrypted data left millions vulnerable, despite the application of interior and perimeter defenses.

Digital Government

Homeland Security Radio Silence Persists

After almost three years, the Department of Homeland Security has made little progress toward improving internal communication via radio, according to a recent IG verification review.

Digital Government

World’s First Biolimb: Scientists Are Growing Rat Arms in Petri Dishes

Harald Ott at Massachusetts General Hospital and his colleagues have now taken a step toward the dream of building a biolimb.

Cybersecurity

We Need an International Law of Cyberspace

The level and breadth of cyber exploitations suggests a world in which actors are engaged in a race to the bottom of every data well they think might be useful for their own purposes.

Cybersecurity

Why Did China Hack Federal Employees' Data?

Officials think the massive data breach revealed this week is part of an effort to build a database of U.S. government workers.