Emerging Tech
DARPA Asks Teens What A Robot Future Looks Like
The agency has selected five winners from its high school film contest; their 5-minute videos offer visions of the social impact of robots.
Emerging Tech
Video: The Hubble Space Telescope at 25
NASA celebrates one of its greatest achievements.
Cybersecurity
Drone pilot training, DISA's big cyber contract, fed feedback, USASpending.gov and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Emerging Tech
GE Has 3D-Printed a Working Jet Engine
While the consumer 3D printing industry is going through a bit of an existential crisis, industrial 3D printing is going strong.
Emerging Tech
America Is Failing its Children by Not Teaching Code in Every High School
There’s a shortage of coders in the U.S., and schools should be the solution.
Modernization
Hackers Have Been Using the Starbucks App to Steal Money From Latte Drinkers
Any time you link an app to your bank account or credit card, you better use a good password.
Digital Government
NSA Spying Heads to Critical Senate Showdown
Mitch McConnell will force a vote on a clean reauthorization of the Patriot Act next week as a deadline looms.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers, experts wrestle with data protection bill
Hackers will hack. Can Congress help protect Americans' personal information? And should states be pushed aside in the interest of uniformity?
Cybersecurity
Cyber Pay Equals Out at $112,000 in Government and Industry, Survey Says
Higher pay typically is not the deal breaker when information security professionals pass over military jobs for private sector positions.
Digital Government
DOD Lab Day has a cyber undercurrent
At the Pentagon's first-ever Laboratory Day, researchers from Air Force, Army and Navy labs won $45 million to develop quantum computing.
Cybersecurity
When shared services go bad
The rise of criminal shared services has been startling, says the FBI’s John Riggi. "The bad guys have figured out that cooperation works."
People
Is OPM's big hiring decision all it's cracked up to be?
Excepted-service hiring authority is a welcome tool for some agencies, but it's temporary relief in the ongoing struggle to snatch up digital services talent — and it has been a long time coming.
Digital Government
Telecom, Cable Industries File Emergency Motion to Kill Net Neutrality
They want a federal court to block the rules before they go into effect June 12.
Emerging Tech
Autonomous Cars Will Destroy Millions of Jobs and Reshape US Economy by 2025
The transition is already beginning to happen.
Emerging Tech
IARPA Wants to Rethink Intelligence Collection
The agency is soliciting proposals for "means for collecting information from previously inaccessible sources."
Digital Government
12 Ways for Congress to Step Up US Data Innovation
A new 12-step legislative program for Congress aims to improve the country's data innovation.
Emerging Tech
Video: Jetpack Travel Like You've Never Seen it Before
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a jetpack!
Cybersecurity