People

Why acquisition reforms fall short

After two decades of good intentions, it's time for an enterprise strategy for IT acquisition and management.

Emerging Tech

If You Aren’t Using Your Data, It’s Just Taking Up Space

Data is only valuable if you can redesign the way government works using it, according to Mike Walsh, CEO of Tomorrow.

Digital Government

When Washington Comes to SXSW: The New Head of the Patent Office on Creative Destruction

There are a lot of things you might imagine seeing at SXSW, but the swearing in of a top U.S. government official probably isn't one of them.

Digital Government

The Senate Is About to Decide the Future of NSA Spying

What happens when an unstoppable force building behind surveillance reform meets an immovable object in Mitch McConnell?

Digital Government

Police Data Initiative aims to 'increase transparency'

Two goals of the Police Data Initiative are to enhance interoperability of systems and make it easier to extract useful insights from collected data.

Digital Government

Can Wikipedia forecast the flu?

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory say Wikipedia article access logs are highly correlated with historical influenza-like illness records.

Cybersecurity

State Department presents cyber norms to Congress

Maryland Democrat Benjamin Cardin is skeptical about how U.S. cyber adversaries will receive the State Department’s newly released peacetime norms for cyberspace.

Cybersecurity

(ISC)² honors information security leaders in government

Winners hail from DHS, Education, State, the Army and the Marine Corps.

People

Why it’s time for a town hall meeting

Interactive, regularly scheduled meetings are the best way to share information with employees and address their concerns.

Cybersecurity

China Allegedly Is Embedded in Penn State’s Engineering Computers

Education // Pennsylvania, United States

Cybersecurity

The Army Is In Talks with ‘Cyber Effects’ Vendors

A new market survey aimed at identifying suppliers is the third Defense Department document issued over the past month that points out a need to be able to execute "cyber effects.”

Emerging Tech

This Social Network Only Exists for Discussing the Weather

Thanks to digital broadcasting technology and IP-enabled cable boxes, viewers can interact with the hosts in real time.

Digital Government

Federal CTO Hopes Digital Teams Will Outlast Obama Administration

Addressing an audience at a conference in Washington, D.C., Smith talked about federal efforts to attract more private sector technologists into the federal government.

Emerging Tech

Want to Build a NASA Rocket? Agency Goes Public with Source Code

This week, NASA released over 1,000 of its program tools to the public in an effort to boost technology transfer.

Modernization

Air Force makes more NETCENTS-2 awards

Twenty firms named to $7.9 billion network operations and infrastructure solutions contract.