Cybersecurity

DHS No Longer Needs Permission Slips to Monitor Other Agencies' Networks for Vulnerabilities

New rules published by the Office of Management and Budget require agencies to agree to proactive scanning.

Cybersecurity

Payment Systems at SuperValu Grocers Are Hit Again

Food and Beverage // Minnesota, United States

Digital Government

Dallas Ebola Patient Sent Home Because of Electronic Health Record Snag

Blame the robots, not the humans.

Emerging Tech

Facebook Retools Secret Research Guidelines

The new guidelines are unlikely to appease privacy advocates, who argue users should consent to experiments.

Acquisition

Leidos team touts interoperability in military EHR bid

Leidos, Accenture and electronic health records provider Cerner are teaming up to go after the $11 billion Defense Department EHR contract. Here's why they think they can close the deal.

Cybersecurity

ODNI crowdsources speech-recognition software

Automatic speech-recognition software that works in challenging acoustic environments is the "holy grail of the speech research community."

Cybersecurity

DHS network scanning authority, federal lab feedback and more

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Acquisition

5 predictions for fiscal 2015

The Information Technology Industry Council's Trey Hodgkins offers his forecast for the coming year.

Modernization

5 agency IT predictions for 2015

Red Hat's Gunnar Hellekson shares his forecast for the coming year.

Digital Government

Former Treasury official Gregg joins accountancy practice

Former Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dick Gregg led implementation of the Data Act for the department.

People

Agencies' declining use of performance data

The government's use of performance information is down from 2007, despite GAO's attempts to promote its long-term operational benefits.

Cybersecurity

Hacktivists Back Hong Kong’s Occupy Central

Autism site in the dot-HK domain becomes one of the first victims.

Digital Government

Who Needs an EHR? Some Defense Hospital Emergency Rooms Still Use Paper

Review of Military Health System faults IT systems.

Emerging Tech

Here’s How the Incoming USAID Tech Guru Plans to Fight Ebola

Ruggedized tablets, belt-worn printers and a high-tech alternative to stifling protective suits among the ideas.

Digital Government

VanRoekel’s Successor: Why the Next Federal CIO Could be a Familiar Face

The search to fill the latest vacancy left by former Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel probably won’t end in Silicon Valley, experts say.

Digital Government

Why a Simple Rubber Glove Could be Key to Fighting Ebola

Basic protective gear was revolutionary for 19th-century medicine, and health workers trying to stop Ebola are recognizing its importance all over again.