Cybersecurity
Does the Federal Government Need a New $400M Cyber Campus?
The Obama administration has proposed spending more than $227 million next year for the first phase of the facility’s construction.
Cybersecurity
Watchdog: VA Teleworkers Breached Security in China and India
The Department of Veterans Affairs allowed contractors to access the agency’s network using personally owned laptops while traveling abroad in China and India.
Cybersecurity
NIH's big IT contract, FEMA's weather alert app, hacker-on-hacker attacks and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
Former FBI Director Talks Cybersecurity
Mueller admitted it was his responsibility, as director of the FBI, to ask for clarification on broad technology projects.
Digital Government
DARPA is spending big on big data
An analysis of DARPA's budget request for FY 2016 shows big data investments have increased 69 percent since 2014 and this might only be the beginning.
Artificial Intelligence
Google Has Patented Ability to Control Robot Army
The patent suggests the robots could be controlled by a smartphone
Emerging Tech
Space Coffee: Astronauts Getting Fancy New Espresso Machine
And they won’t have to sip coffee out of Capri Sun pouches any longer.
Digital Government
The Legal War Over Net Neutrality Has Begun
Groups representing all the major cable and phone companies have filed lawsuits against the FCC's rules.
Digital Government
No Filter: Government Publishing Office Now on Instagram
In its sixth foray into social media's many platforms, the Government Publishing Office has now joined Instagram.
Emerging Tech
Casey Coleman Heads to Unisys
Coleman, who led GSA’s IT efforts from 2007 to 2014 before taking a position with AT&T Government Solutions, is joining Unisys Federal.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon to release cyber strategy next week
Newly minted Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's prioritization of cybersecurity will cross a threshold when the Pentagon releases a multi-year cyber strategy.
People
Longtime procurement expert Gordon set to retire
The former OFPP administrator and GAO executive, now an associate dean at GWU Law School, is retiring in July.
People
Casey Coleman moving to Unisys Federal Systems
AT&T Government Solution executive and former GSA CIO will lead Unisys' civilian agency practice.
Cybersecurity
Hacked Victims Unwittingly Call Their Assailants and Help Rob Themselves
Financial Services // Mainly North America
Cybersecurity
In Fierce Battle for Cyber Talent, Even NSA Struggles to Keep Elites on Staff
The agency has leeway in bypassing the sluggish federal hiring process to onboard staff more quicker, but that’s not enough to stop some top-level technical talent from jumping ship.
People
Clothes make the manager, data could boost women in STEM, DOE deputy CIO departs
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government