People
What smart succession planning requires
Leadership changes don’t have to be painful. Here are some tips for easing the transitions.
Cybersecurity
There’s A Plan to Immediately Purge Some Governmentwide Network Surveillance Data
Destruction could free up storage space and have the added benefit of protecting privacy.
Digital Government
Why It Still Sucks to Be a CIO in Government and What a New Law Can Do About It
While CIOs claim the “chief” title, in many cases their hands have been tied by sprawling bureaucratic structures and a lack of institutional heft.
Cybersecurity
A 'Powerful' Cyber Tool Created by Government Now On the Market
After three years in development, the Network Mapping System has moved into the commercial market.
Cybersecurity
Network maps, moisture maps and stalled job growth
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Emerging Tech
How Government Space Geeks at NASA Won the Internet
How NASA stumbled upon perhaps the greatest social-media strategy of our time.
Digital Government
How a Fed with Fake Diplomas Worked at the Interior Department for 5 Years
The technology officer eventually resigned from the Interior Department—and then he worked at the Census Bureau.
Cybersecurity
White House plugs plan to boost immigration IT
The U.S. Digital Service wants to bring a more intuitive process and consistent look and feel to online immigration applications.
Cybersecurity
DOD looks to new analytics center to tackle insider threat
The Defense Insider Threat Management and Analysis Center is meant to be predictive rather than reactive, with the help of advances in big data.
People
Making the most of agency email scandals
Chief Records Officer Paul Wester would prefer that records management was done right, of course, but the political kerfuffles do offer a teachable moment.
Acquisition
GSA rolls out commodity IT service
The idea behind Advantage Select is for the agency to do the upfront work and award short-term BPAs that leverage existing contractor inventories.
Modernization
Do Encrypted Phones Threaten National Security?
A legislator compares manufacturing devices with strong, end-to-end encryption to dumping toxic waste in a stream.
Cybersecurity
After Dodging the Bullet that Hit OPM, Interior ‘Owns’ Up to Cyber Problem
Department CIO Sylvia Burns was horrified to learn another agency's database was hacked inside her IT facility.
Cybersecurity
Why are Government Contractors Cutting Their Cybersecurity Budgets?
The majority of large firms also decreased their overall IT spending, the survey showed.
Emerging Tech
FCC Wants to Operate 100 Percent in the Cloud by the End of 2017
FCC is going all-in on cloud computing and is currently in the middle of a “lift-and-shift."
Digital Government
McCain on defense bill, NGA on Hootenanny, Army on battlefield tech
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Machine-Only Hacking Competition Produces 7 Finalists
The lucky few emerged after a full day's worth of a rapid-fire game of capture the flag.
Modernization