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

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

Facebook’s Mobile User Base Has Crossed the 1 Billion Threshold

Roughly 341 million people only use their mobile device to access Facebook.

Digital Government

INSCOM points toward greater use of open standards

The Intelligence and Security Command is the Army’s one-stop-shop for intelligence, and the platform for its recently deployed geospatial database runs on non-proprietary technology.

Acquisition

Industry, agencies talk small business obstacles

Programs aimed at cutting through the weeds of the procurement process can help, but many small vendors feel other federal efforts are stacked against them.

Digital Government

Feds Feeling Less Empowered to Innovate

Number who feel innovation is encouraged and rewarded continues to decline.

Modernization

TASC taps ‘first federal CIO’

Mark Forman joins the defense contractor as vice president for IT services and cloud initiatives.

Emerging Tech

Why Crowdfunding Is Set to Explode in Size Over the Next Few Years

The crowdsourcing market could hit around $17 billion globally by 2015, report predicts.

Cybersecurity

Which agencies reward innovation?

Federal workers lack confidence that their employers will support efforts at innovation, says a new report from the Partnership for Public Service.

Digital Government

Another amazing crowdsourcing app shakes up the world

GiveDirectly employs a simple idea – giving money directly to poor people – and uses technology to facilitate the transaction.

Acquisition

IBM gears up for Pentagon health push

With a major electronic health records procurement looming, IBM is growing its federal health IT footprint.

Cybersecurity

Bitcoin miners unearth 30,000 college student SSNs

Education // Iowa, United States

Emerging Tech

The RFP for the U-2 Spy Plane Was Just Two Pages Long

The acquisition shows how government contracting has changed and stayed the same.