Emerging Tech
VA Wants Your Help Building Better Prosthetics
The aim of the project is to build a suite of special prosthetics and other state-of-the-art technologies to support wounded veterans in their day-to-day lives.
Emerging Tech
How Social Media Is Helping Nepal Rebuild After Two Big Earthquakes
With little disaster infrastructure in place, groups of Nepalis, foreign aid workers and academics, and the country’s diaspora, moved swiftly to organize an Internet-driven response to the disasters.
Digital Government
Single Sign-On For Government Applications Coming in Weeks
Citizens could soon manage most of their government accounts on one website.
People
IT a big reason Congress is pondering a private air traffic control system
While the safety record of the FAA-operated air traffic control system leads the world, stakeholders are concerned about the slow pace of technological upgrades.
Cybersecurity
Navy Needs Help Making Sure Its Drones are Hack-Proof
Aerial weapons systems were not expected to become part of the so-called Internet of Things.
Digital Government
Burr Preps NSA Backup Plan as House Threatens to Leave Town
McCarthy says the House won't budge from its insistence that the Senate pass the USA Freedom Act.
Cybersecurity
Making the business case for DHS S&T
Industry leaders like what they have seen so far of the Science and Technology Directorate's efforts at collaboration, but they are not yet fully convinced.
Modernization
What workers – especially millenials – want
Agencies and industry face mounting challenges as young, telecommuting employees feel less engaged with their work. How can leaders keep talent from disconnecting or leaving altogether?
Modernization
Survey: 'Always-on' mindset slow to penetrate government
A new survey of federal IT professionals found that 51 percent need a day or more to find and fix app performance problems.
Modernization
Tech firms, privacy advocates push White House on encryption
A group that includes Google, Apple and Microsoft wants the Obama administration to drop efforts to provide law enforcement with access to encrypted communications.
Cybersecurity
Hacked Atlanta Billboard Displayed Grotesque Porn Image
Manufacturing // Technology // Georgia, United States
People
McClure elected to IAC leadership role
Veris Group exec and former GSA official takes over as executive vice-chair of ACT-IAC's industry half.
Digital Government
Chris Christie: Edward Snowden Is a Criminal and NSA Fears Are 'Baloney'
The Republican governor and likely White House hopeful will accuse Hollywood and “civil-liberties extremists” of hijacking the NSA debate in a speech Monday.
Emerging Tech
President Obama Gets Official Twitter Account
The account gained more than 730,000 followers in less than three hours.
Cybersecurity
What the Pentagon Thought the Future of Cybersecurity Would Look Like in 2001
The agency forecasted things like touch screens and automated cyber defense.
Cybersecurity
FITARA implementation, simple innovation and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Emerging Tech
Building a Robot in Your Garage? You Could Get a DARPA Contract in Less Than a Month
DARPA's new Robotics Fast Track effort aims to reduce the proposal-to-contract turnaround time to less than a month.
Digital Government
Government Outpacing Private Sector in IPv6 Adoption, Official Says
More than half of public federal web domains are using the new protocol.
Digital Government