Modernization
Would Agencies Buy More Cloud if Companies Made It Easier?
Maybe contracting officers shouldn’t take all the blame.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Out Sex Offenders, Infect New Country and Breach Security Firm’s Database
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
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
Epic Systems, Leading Defense EHR Bidder, Slammed for Lack of Interoperability
Hospitals, clinicians pay high fees for connections from other systems
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.
Digital Government
Military Health System Does Not Like Patient Safety Bad News
Staffers fear retaliation, according to the findings of a Pentagon-ordered review.
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.
Digital Government
NASA Awards Flurry of Contracts for IT Services Under SEWP V
The winning vendors reveals a who’s-who of IT defense contractors.
Emerging Tech