Cybersecurity

Inside Job at Blue Cross Blue Shield Racked up $742,000 Worth of Sam’s Club Items

Financial Services // Healthcare and Public Health // Michigan, United States

Digital Government

USAID Tech Guru VanRoekel Stepping Down

The former White House CIO joined USAID to help apply technology to the Ebola fight.

Digital Government

Senators Want to Speed Adoption of Electronic Health Records Systems

Lawmakers discussed how to make electronic health record systems talk to each other.

Digital Government

Computers Can Now Predict Violent Outbreaks Around the World

Statistical and computer models are identifying possible causes of conflict, raising hopes of prevention, and potentially providing guidance on safety and stability for development work.

Digital Government

Bipartisan Drone Privacy Bill Back on the Table

Reps. Ted Poe and Zoe Lofgren are reintroducing legislation that would limit how the U.S. government can use drones to spy on American citizens.

Cybersecurity

Here’s What Is in the Senate’s Cybersecurity Bill

Despite amendments, privacy groups still fear the measure could expand NSA spying.

Ideas

Improving How Social Media Informs Leadership and Public Initiatives

How can all of us increase the benefits of using social media to improve public service and mitigate potential downsides?

Cybersecurity

Regulators seek more authority in data breach bill

FTC officials fear draft House legislation might be too narrow to fix the problem.

Cybersecurity

Congress looks for interagency coordination on drones

Lawmakers are considering putting DHS in charge of an interagency task force on drone security.

Cybersecurity

Revisiting the Navy’s blueprint for cyber operations

Operation Rolling Tide, which drove Iranian hackers from the Navy Marine Corps Intranet, could have a lasting impact on the Pentagon's approach to cyber.

Digital Government

DHS looking for wider bio-data feed

The National Biosurveillance Integration Center wants a source that can aggregate a minimum of 50,000 online data sources every 12 hours.

Cybersecurity

Botnets and datasets

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Digital Government

Rise of the Data Chiefs: Meet the Federal Officials Aiming to Usher in Government’s ‘Golden Age’ of Data

Nextgov sat down with five recently appointed agency chief data officers across government to discuss the mission of the agency CDO and whether there’s room in the federal organizational chart for yet another “chief.”

Digital Government

Timeline: Rise of the Chief Data Officer

Charting the evolution of the government's open data movement.

Digital Government

Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Niall Brennan, CMS

Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Niall Brennan, chief data officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Digital Government

Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Dan Morgan, Transportation

Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Dan Morgan, chief data officer for the Transportation Department.

Digital Government

Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Deputy CDO Lynn Overmann, Commerce

Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Lynn Overmann, deputy chief data officer at the Commerce Department.

Digital Government

Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Brandon Pustejovsky, USAID

Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Brandon Pustejovsky, chief data officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Cybersecurity

In Nod To Privacy, Feds Say Every Agency Website Will Be Encrypted

While the "HTTPS-Only Standard" makeover likely won’t happen overnight, privacy proponents cheered the effort.