Emerging Tech
US Is Saving Nukes So It Can Blow Up Asteroids
The government isn't destroying older bombs on schedule, because it might need them for "planetary defense."
Modernization
CMS releases trove of data on payments to doctors and hospitals
The first batch of data covers $3.5 billion in payments from firms to health professionals between Aug. 1 and Dec. 31, 2013, but CMS and the AMA warned about drawing any definitive conclusions from it.
Cybersecurity
4 cybersecurity gurus to follow on Twitter
Here are four particularly insightful cybersecurity experts worth following on Twitter.
Modernization
DARPA seeks ideas on cyber vulnerabilities and recoveries
Two recent solicitations invite researchers to look at what defense and resiliency will look like when defensive measures are able to thwart most known attack methods and adversaries look to exploit a new class of vulnerabilities.
Cybersecurity
Social Security data, smartphone encryption and DHS HQ
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Army Network Breached by Gamers Targeting Apache Helicopter Simulator
Entertainment // Government (U.S.)
Digital Government
Tangled Up in FOIA Requests, Agencies Turn to Technology
Think user experience to simplify back-end processes.
Digital Government
Veterans Benefits Administration Gets New Communications Chief
Seasoned public affairs director Boone started at VBA last week.
Digital Government
VA CIO: Scheduling System Software Will Be Fielded by 2017, Not 2020
The department says a chart depicting a full rollout not until 2020 was outdated and it's committed to a two-year rollout.
Cybersecurity
Porn Purveyor Serves up Nude Celeb Photos and Lookalikes on Hacked Sites
Some of the compromised Web pages belong to schools and church groups.
Ideas
Government, the Last Great Technology Skeptic
Aversion to technology remains an issue in all branches of government.
Digital Government
Does the Intelligence Community Really Get Hadoop?
Intelligence experts say the government needs to hire more data scientists to keep up with the big-data savvy private sector.
Emerging Tech
NOAA Taps New Head for Satellite Programs
Chief among new NOAA satellite guru’s priorities will be overseeing two new programs worth a collective $20 billion
Cybersecurity
Hackers indicted for stealing Apache training software
Justice Department indicts four for stealing software used to train U.S. helicopter pilots, among other trade secrets.
Modernization
Net control, IS attacks, PC prices and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Modernization
TechAmerica questions GSA telecom effort
The tech industry group said GSA's announced plans for NS2020 are "out of synch" with its stated intention of overhauling telecom contracting.
Acquisition
CMS extends Terremark's HealthCare.gov cloud-hosting duties -- again
The latest delay in HP taking over hosting services will keep Terremark in place through the open-enrollment period.
Acquisition
33 firms hired to work on HealthCare.gov
CGI Federal got most of the bad press, but there were a lot of chefs stirring the HealthCare.gov pot.
People