Cybersecurity
Cyber information-sharing bill moves forward
The measure would set up a "portal" at DHS that private firms could use to confidentially share threat information without legal liability.
People
Rising Star nominations: Time is running out!
You have until July 15 to ensure that up-and-comers get the recognition they deserve.
Cybersecurity
Biometric database, software inventory, smallpox and a prescreening milestone
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Acquisition
Bureau of Prisons mulls eDiscovery computers for inmates
While there isn't yet an active solicitation, the Bureau of Prisons is seeking cost information on a combined hardware-software eDiscovery system.
Digital Government
Obama Wants Drones to Be Part of Border Migration Solution
Proposed emergency funding contains $39 million for aerial surveillance, including unmanned aircraft operations.
Digital Government
House VA Committee Eyes VA eBenefits Mess
Investigation would look at the hundreds of thousands of unprocessed eBenefits claims.
Emerging Tech
Why the Government Is Looking for Water Guns This Summer
Hint: It’s about invasive Asian carp, not a water fight.
Digital Government
Pentagon Won’t Demolish Alaskan Radio Research Site Until 2015
Defense wants research institutions to take over operation of HAARP.
Digital Government
The U.S. Just Found Some Rogue Smallpox In a Closet, No Big Deal
Vials of a smallpox-causing virus in a lab's storage room.
Cybersecurity
Security Firm Says Chinese Hackers Targeting U.S. Experts on Iraq
CrowdStrike says hacking began on June 18 —the day the rebel group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant attacked an oil refinery.
Cybersecurity
Snowden Undermines Presidential Panel’s Defense of NSA Spying
Dueling narratives are clouding a debate over a controversial foreign-intelligence program as the Senate readies reform efforts.
Digital Government
The Latest Snowden Leak Is Devastating to NSA Defenders
The agency collected and stored intimate chats, photos, and emails belonging to innocent Americans—and secured them so poorly that reporters can now browse them at will.
Emerging Tech
NASA's Zombie Spacecraft Learns to Fire Its Engines
As the presumed-dead probe hurtles toward Earth, the deadline for saving it looms.
Cybersecurity
NSA critics, storm warnings and free books
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Modernization
Pivoting for the next big leap in government IT
For all the advancements we've seen in consumer technology and enterprise applications in the past couple of decades, government networks have remained largely unchanged.
Modernization
DOT CIO on cyber, shared services and 'technology that is changing constantly'
Transportation Department CIO Richard McKinney says striking a balance between centralized and decentralized IT is one of his greatest challenges.
Modernization
DEA probes geospatial cloud
The Drug Enforcement Administration hopes to establish a hybrid cloud environment that would allow federal, state and local governments to use the DEA's mapping tool.
Modernization