Acquisition
Lawmakers push consolidation of small business preference process
Under current law, the VA runs its own Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business program, and the SBA handles those duties for all other agencies.
Cybersecurity
NOAA CIO headed to Justice
Joseph Klimavicz will take over the post that Luke McCormack left in November 2013.
Cybersecurity
Iowa delivered Medicaid patient records to wrong building
Healthcare and Public Health // Iowa, United States
Emerging Tech
Why Driverless Cars Don't Require a Bunch of New Laws
A new report says the right regulatory framework may be closer than it appears.
Digital Government
Hey, YouTube, We Want to Sync Multiple Videos from the Same Event
And we could use metadata to turn disjointed footage into a single narrative.
Modernization
Lawmakers Want Pentagon to Clarify Cloud Security Standards
Bill would ease the way for vendors to sell services to the Defense Department.
Emerging Tech
GSA Wants Contractors to Sign on the Digital Line
The General Services Administration plans to award an agencywide digital signature contract in 2015.
Digital Government
Coming Soon: Pentagon’s Multi-Billion Dollar Health Records Contract
Project could change the future of U.S. health care.
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