Acquisition
Improved Pentagon acquisition requires tolerance of risk
Overhauling the defense acquisition process is a national security imperative in tight budget times, argues a consultant and former Marine major general.
Digital Government
Intel probes the private-sector side of open government data
A common thread of the various projects is that they look at social or business problems addressed by large-scale institutions and look to disrupt them through crowdsourcing and data.
Modernization
Google Is Waging a Financial War of Attrition to Win the Cloud
The company spent $2.35 billion on infrastructure last quarter; for Google that means data centers and the IT gear that go in them.
Emerging Tech
The Forever Battery, Brought to You by Old-School Silicon Valley Technologists
A startup has invented an energy storage device that could take an entire neighborhood off the grid.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Revive AOL, Reveal Obama’s Airport Passcodes and Love Soccer
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Digital Government
How analytics are changing health care
Medical innovators show how better records and advanced algorithms can transform treatment.
Digital Government
The Number of Measles Cases This Year Is Already Troubling -- and It's Only April
Health officials are worried.
Emerging Tech
Is Space the Key to Bitcoin's Future?
A satellite-based plan to broadcast bitcoin data could make the digital currency safer and more accessible, advocates say.
People
Does anyone want to be a CIO?
Alan Balutis argues that focusing too much on "commodity IT" is an abdication of the CIO's mission.
Cybersecurity
How Sandia researchers get inside TSA employees' heads
The national lab is applying cognitive psychology and neuroscience to the field of airport security.
Digital Government
The Web Is Not Actually Getting Any More Global
Rising data flow is not inherently international.
Digital Government
Navy calibration patent goes commercial
Under a cross-licensing agreement, American Technical Services will commercialize the system, while the Navy obtains a license to use ATS software.
People
Brubaker leaving DOD
The Pentagon's director of planning and performance management is returning to the private sector.
Digital Government
Oregon's Health Care Website Is Worse Than HealthCare.gov
It's so bad, an advisory panel recommended Thursday that the state move to the federal exchange.
Modernization
The FCC Thought Its New Rules Violated Net Neutrality Back in 2011
"Providers might withhold or decline to expand capacity in order to 'squeeze' nonprioritized traffic," FCC warned.
Digital Government
The Cost of Better Data on Bundled Federal Contracts? $1 Million.
The value of accurate reporting? Priceless.
Digital Government
Lawsuit Says GSA Discriminates Against Blind Contractors
The System for Award Management is not handicapped accessible, the suit claims.
Digital Government
Video: Nanorobots That Hide in Your Blood Like Viruses Could Someday Fight Cancer
The new technology builds structural hangers out of genetic code to attach a fatty covering to the nanodevice.
Digital Government
GSA's Bev Godwin to Retire
The director of GSA’s Federal Citizen Information Center has been a champion of technology innovation.
Modernization