Acquisition

What agencies want to hear when buying IT

A new study helps vendors understand what messages resonate (and tells feds how their peers prefer to be pitched).

Cybersecurity

Cyber Crooks Snatch Biotech Emails to Move Markets

Financial Services // Healthcare and Public Health

Cybersecurity

Canada’s Tax Agency Handed Reporters Details on Celebrities’ Finances and Donations

Entertainment // Government (Foreign) // Ottawa, Canada

Cybersecurity

Postal Service Has No Annual Financial Statement Because of Hack

Agency has to ensure the integrity of its financial data systems post-breach before gathering information for its annual report.

Modernization

The World's Internet Addiction in 2 Charts

Brazilians most likely group to report spending every waking hour online, with Nigerians and South Africans not far behind

Modernization

How the Pentagon plans to bolster cloud security

A new report from the DOD CIO offers soup-to-nuts guidance on security for commercial cloud providers and Defense Department customers.

Emerging Tech

The Industrialization of Space

This week, NASA marked a milestone: the first object manufactured outside of Earth.

Modernization

Feds Accuse Sony of Overhyping PlayStation Features

If you bought a PlayStation Vita, you could soon be getting a refund thanks to a federal settlement.

Modernization

The FCC's one-man tweet storm

FCC CIO David Bray uses Twitter to tell the agency’s story and to be available to stakeholders.

Digital Government

Pirate tracking, highways in the sky and laser deployment

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Digital Government

NSA returns to open source

The National Security Agency wants the private sector to use its NiFi tool to handle commercial big-data needs.

Cybersecurity

Now Parking Lots Near Retailers Are Getting Hacked

Customer banking data affected during payment system breach at firm known as Standard Parking.

Cybersecurity

Looking beyond Google Glass: IARPA plots new generation of wearables

Intelligence research agency wants to look "beyond current prototypes in development and extend up to 10 years in the future."

Cybersecurity

Digging into the immigration order's ripple effects

The president is also seeking ideas on modernizing the IT infrastructure that supports the visa processing system.

Cybersecurity

Matthew Berninger

This Rising Star has committed himself to getting control of cyber threats and becoming the kind of cybersecurity expert the federal IT community needs.

Acquisition

Nina Malakouti

This Rising Star nailed down two of the General Services Administration's biggest Schedule 70 contracts in 2013.

Digital Government

Jon Quandt

This Rising Star has been a leader in expanding mobile access to the Government Printing Office's content.

People

Kent Reynolds

This Rising Star led a complete overhaul of Treasury's Budget Formulation and Execution Manager -- on budget and with no system downtime.