Emerging Tech

Government Emails Have Been Disappearing for as Long as…

Every administration that’s used email has lost emails requested by investigators.

Emerging Tech

Quantum Speed Not So Fast After All

New research a blow for quantum computing.

Digital Government

FCC Is Holding a GPS Workshop Friday

Learn about GPS receiver protection and performance.

Cybersecurity

Nation State-sponsored Attackers Hacked Two Airports, Report Says

The victims were among 75 airports targeted by a prolonged cyberspy operation.

Digital Government

FCC Hits Chinese GPS Jammer Vendor With Record $34.9 Million Fine

Jammer use is close to routine near Portland, Oregon airport.

Cybersecurity

Does the intelligence community have a handle on its contractor workforce?

According to a GAO report, intelligence agencies lack an accurate picture of contractors costs and mission.

Digital Government

Administration Got What It Deserved in Botched HealthCare.gov Rollout, Report Says

Lawmakers attribute the website’s initial failure poor IT and management.

Emerging Tech

NASA Is Building a Tiny Mothership to Explore Distant Lunar Oceans

In a new approach to planetary science, a small satellite would rain even smaller satellites on Jupiter's moon.

Digital Government

Upside to Shrinking Budgets? Innovation.

Federal belt-tightening has seen some positive outcomes.

Cybersecurity

Cyber staffing and NOAA mapping

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Cybersecurity

Brennan: Technological change tough for CIA

The CIA director also said that although digital footprints aid in tracking down terrorists, they increase the vulnerability of agents in the field.

Modernization

Report: U.S. Marshals’ email folly ruins bitcoin auction

A "reply all" revealed the identities of 40 bidders in an anonymous bitcoin auction.

Digital Government

Can Big Data Boost the Paltry Number of Female and Minority Tech Workers?

One start-up is using public, online information to find more women, minority workers.

Digital Government

The technology taking NASA to Mars

The space agency showcases some of its innovations, big and small.

People

'The critical link is giving people ownership'

Author Rod Pyle discusses what other agencies can learn from the culture and systems that have driven NASA's accomplishments.

Cybersecurity

U.S. Marshals blast email addresses of those interested in anonymous bitcoin auction

Financial Services // Government (U.S.) // United States

Modernization

IRS Emails Wouldn’t Have Vanished in the Cloud

‘It’s an interesting window into how far we still have to go,’ industry official says.

Emerging Tech

Obama Met a Giant, Talking Robot Giraffe at the White House Today

The robotic animal that speaks with a British accent and can carry 30 people is just one oddity in a giraffe-centric news cycle this week.