People
Exploring the next wave of IT cost cutting
By applying a long-term mindset to strategic cost-saving initiatives, agencies can reshape how IT supports mission delivery.
Digital Government
NHTSA can't get on the road again
Implementing a new crash-data system requires travel that the highway safety agency says it can't afford.
Emerging Tech
Halvorsen Now Defense Department’s Permanent CIO
Terry Halvorsen gets the bump from acting CIO and will exercise authority over the Pentagon’s $36 billion IT budget.
Emerging Tech
‘You Can Make Anything with a 3-D Printer’ and 3 Other Myths
A recent paper by intelligence community analysts and private sector researchers zeroes in on both the opportunities and risks of 3-D printing.
Digital Government
Isis -- No, Not That One -- Wins $7 Million Pentagon Cyber Contract
The Pentagon has hired a little-known Virginia startup with an unfortunate name to work on a big data project.
Cybersecurity
PI Hired Hackers to Dig up Dirt on People He Was Paid to Investigate
New York, United States
Emerging Tech
FTC Pits Humans Against Robocalls in New Contest
FTC is looking for anyone who can block, forward and predict which phone calls are made by automated systems.
Digital Government
Video: Open Data and Citizen Engagement
The fifth installment in our collaboration with Socrata's Open Data TV.
Cybersecurity
Computer Whiz Kid Hacked High School to Fix His Bad Grades
Education // New York, United States
Cybersecurity
Brit Allegedly Extracted Data from Pentagon Satellite System
The data compromised includes employee contact information and mobile device ID numbers.
Cybersecurity
Brit Allegedly Extracted Data from Pentagon Satellite System
Government (U.S.) // United States
Cybersecurity
Hackers Con Telecom IT Support Worker, Bilk Mandarin Oriental Guests and Trigger Bogus Bomb Alarm at a Mall
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Emerging Tech
Senators: We Need a National Strategy for the Internet of Things
The bipartisan group urged the United States to articulate a national strategy for developing and deploying the Internet of Things.
Digital Government
New CIO Wants Fresh Pair of Eyes to Look at Federal IT Problems
The IT Solutions Challenge will consist of several working groups of "rising stars" from the IT world tasked with zeroing in on tech issues in the federal government.
Digital Government
Cable and Telecom Giants Take FCC to Court Over Net Neutrality Rules
Here are three arguments cable and telecom giants are likely to use to try to kill the rules.
Modernization
Why the Mobile Industry Wants to Kill the Password
As data rather than voice or text becomes the big reason people use their mobile phones, networks want to extract more value from their users.
Cybersecurity
Peering into the cyber future
A new IARPA program looks to fund technology that can anticipate rather than react to cyber threats.
People
GSA's Roth not looking to rock the boat
"We need to keep running in the direction we've been running," Acting GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth said.
Digital Government
NTIA looks for UAS answers
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is kicking off the process to implement President Obama's memorandum on domestic drones.
Cybersecurity