People
Can Phaedra Chrousos move the needle at GSA?
With a focus on entrepreneurship and customer service, the agency's first-ever chief customer officer is applying private-sector solutions to the often sclerotic federal bureaucracy.
Cybersecurity
Decrypting outbound data a key to security
Decrypting and inspecting network traffic is still a work in progress for federal agencies, according to F5 Networks' Randy Wood.
Cybersecurity
NIST identifies objectives for cyber standards
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is proposing four broad objectives as the foundation for international standards in cyberspace.
Acquisition
Scott: FITARA marks sea change for IT
Federal CIO Tony Scott also asserted that more IT spending is needed: "You can't save your way to success."
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