Digital Government

Privacy Groups Sound the Alarm Over FBI’s Facial-Recognition Technology

Advocates push Holder to assess the privacy impact of the FBI's controversial database.

Emerging Tech

At This School, You Can Check Out Drones Like Library Books

Instead of a library card, you'll need training, a professor's endorsement, and a willingness to assume liability for accidents.

Digital Government

Google Is Becoming a Domain Registrar

Google has been an ICANN registrar for a while, but they have never before sold domains.

Cybersecurity

NSA's Rogers: JIE crucial to cyber defense

The Defense Department's move to a Joint Information Environment can't come soon enough for National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers.

Acquisition

Looking ahead in procurement can pay dividends for agencies

The spotlight on troubled federal IT project might loosen the purse strings a bit, suggests Capitol Solutions CEO David Taylor.

People

Can culture shifts, open architecture prod defense acquisition reform?

Congress wants the Department of Defense to improve acquisition, but conflicting demands could muddle the process.

Digital Government

Teachers Give Failing Grade to Obama's Push for Tech in Schools

The FCC should expand the size of its school Internet program, teachers say.

Digital Government

NOAA embraces the business of big data

Building on a February RFI, NOAA has put together its big data partnership business model, mapping out a way for government and industry to take government data to the next level.

Acquisition

IT reform, DISA telecom and OASIS SB

News and notes from around the federal IT community

Cybersecurity

A closer look at 'Map of the World'

As NGA's geodata platform matures, hopes for payoffs rise.

Cybersecurity

Healthcare job applicants given real patient data for practice

Healthcare and Public Health // California, United States

Digital Government

Lockheed Clinches $82.5 Million Sole-Source Cyber Range Deal

The defensewide system for simulating hacks depends on the contractor’s source code and expertise.

Emerging Tech

'Why-Fi' or 'Wiffy'? How Americans Pronounce Common Tech Terms

More than 30 percent of us say "meme" as "me-me" ... and other findings from a new survey.

Digital Government

Happy 70th Birthday to Original GI Bill

Yesterday marked the anniversary of a landmark law.

Cybersecurity

Watch the Global Hacking War in Real Time With a Map

The US and China are locked in an escalating war about online spying that threatens to devastate business for companies in both countries.