Emerging Tech
Clicking with Citizens
Governments around the world are enacting plans to offer more digital services online. What can their experiences tell U.S. policymakers?
Digital Government
Spectrum incentives, reseller rules, NOAA hacked and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Another U.S. Satellite Hack Traced to China
Government (U.S.) // Maryland, United States
Modernization
Of Asteroids and ETs: How Cloud Innovation is Driving Space Exploration
In just a few years, cloud computing could help aid the search for extraterrestrial life.
Cybersecurity
Survey: Americans Do Care About Online Privacy After All
Yet, the idea that people simply do not care about privacy remains entrenched.
Cybersecurity
The promise of technology transfer
DHS S&T is lining up more technologies to make the transition from government to commercial application, in hopes they will redound to the benefit of all.
Acquisition
IG: DOD lacks quality management approach
The Defense Department lacks an overarching policy to consistently apply quality management system requirements, according to a Pentagon inspector general report.
Acquisition
DHS inks temporary myE-Verify contract
The myE-Verify application will allow workers to check the information on their I-9s to see if the E-Verify system would confirm their eligibility.
Digital Government
Why agencies are drowning in data
An industry-sponsored report suggests that feds could leverage information governance to great effect.
Digital Government
Keystone State Aims to Kill the Password
The commonwealth's login network could help secure online shopping and other e-commerce services worldwide.
Modernization
The iPhone Case That Can Call the Police
A startup in Pittsburgh has designed a smartphone case and app to deter assault and help catch the attackers.
Ideas
Federal Customer Experience 'Downright Bleak'
Six federal agencies earned an average of “very poor." HealthCare.gov scored the lowest.
Digital Government
Why Big Data Needs ‘Dummy Data’
Instead of original data, a structurally similar but obscured version of the data, or “dummy data”, is used for development and testing environments.
Digital Government
Telework on Trial? House Committees to Probe Patent Office Telework Fraud
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the House Judiciary Committee team up for a joint hearing next week.
Digital Government
Why Veterans Make Good Cyberwarriors
Putting returning warfighters back to work as cyberdefenders makes sense, advocates say.
Digital Government
The Broadband Industry’s Plan for Killing Obama's Net Neutrality Plan
The companies may have lost the administration, but there are two more branches of government to turn to.
Modernization
China Poised to Dominate E-Commerce by 2018
One of the factors that helps drive rising e-commerce sales is consumer confidence.
Cybersecurity
Google Ordered to Help Avenge Leaker of Marvel’s New ‘Avengers’ Trailer
Entertainment // California, United States
People
OGIS' Miriam Nisbet heads for the exits
After five years on the job, the founding director of the Office of Government Information Services believes that a deeper understanding and acceptance of FOIA is seeping into the federal government.
Cybersecurity