Digital Government
How to Innovate in a Short Timeframe and on a Shoestring Budget
The Igniting Innovation showcase and awards emphasized one resounding point: Federal innovation does not have to be an oxymoron.
Digital Government
GAO's High-Risk List Adds IT Acquisition and Veteran Health Care
Multiple Capitol Hill sources confirmed to Nextgov that IT acquisition and operations and veteran health care are now included.
Cybersecurity
Holiday Inn Phones Hacked As Part of Phishing Scheme
Hospitality // Texas, United States
Cybersecurity
Hackers Block Animal Shelter Donations, Pose As Cute Syrian Rebels on Skype, and Bust Into HipChat
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
Need a Job? Cyber Command Is Halfway Full
The Pentagon is at the midway point of staffing a projected 6,000-person Cyber Command.
Digital Government
What Kind of Federal CIO Will Tony Scott Be?
Tony Scott officially takes the reins of the Obama administration’s $84 billion IT budget next week.
Modernization
Senators Demand Federal Investigation of Verizon's 'Supercookies'
Commerce Committee Democrats believe Verizon may have broken the law with its Web tracking practices.
Digital Government
8 things to know about Tony Scott
The newly appointed federal CIO is a pilot, an ex-smoker and someone who might not think Disneyland is the happiest place on earth.
Cybersecurity
Navy intelligence challenged by big data
Rear Adm. Elizabeth Train says a common networking architecture is a pressing need.
Digital Government
GovTV: The Navy's new robot firefighter
A prototype of the Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot debuted this week.
Ideas
The 3 Key Steps to Successfully Implement the DATA Act
The legislation requires the Treasury Department to undertake one of its most ambitious management and technological transformations yet.
Modernization
British Access to NSA Spying Was Illegal, Court Rules
The surprising rebuke could portend further legal challenges in Europe to the U.S. government’s international surveillance programs.
Emerging Tech
Few Privacy Limitations Exist on How Police Use Drones
Only 14 states require law enforcement get a warrant to use drones for surveillance.
Digital Government
The ‘Dark Web’ Isn’t Going Anywhere
The government may have won its case against Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht, but the hidden sites are getting bigger—and smarter.
Modernization
A CIO aims for extreme outsourcing
Joe Paiva says he wants his Commerce Department agency "to be out of the IT business by July."
Acquisition
DHS wants to EASE into new cyber defenses
Enterprise automated security environment is a way of thinking, not a specific system, says a DHS request for information.
Cybersecurity
UMass Memorial Ex-Employee Takes Off With Billing Data on Up To 14,000 Patients
Healthcare and Public Health // Massachusetts, United States
Emerging Tech
How VMware Plans to Conquer the Cloud Market
The company is now squarely in the public sector cloud services market, challenging Amazon Web Services, CGI Federal, Autonomic Resources, IBM, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Oracle and others.
People