Modernization

Apple Wants You to Run Your Home from Your iPhone

This new system will allow users to control their lights, appliances, and security systems right from their iOS device

Digital Government

Senate Defense Bill Mulls Bonuses for Cyber Pros

Legislation also directs the services to consider if the cyber battleground warrants new career fields.

Digital Government

WikiLeaks Claims NSA Is Recording 'Nearly All' of Afghanistan’s Phone Calls

Journalists had previously refused to identify ‘Country X’ due to concerns for national security.

People

What's so scary about performance ratings?

Of course metrics can reflect factors outside your control. But that, Steve Kelman argues, is "why God invented multiple regression."

Modernization

HP launches private cloud with high-security federal users in mind

Hewlett-Packard wants to get in on the burgeoning market for military and intel IT with a new cloud offering.

Digital Government

GSA toots Data.gov’s horn

With 105,000 data sets provided by 227 federal entities, Data.gov has grown to include 4.5 million unique visitors.

Cybersecurity

Hackers Stalk a Utility; Promote Godzilla

Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.

Digital Government

Video: The US Forest Service's Laboratory of Fire

At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers reverse-engineer spreading fires.

Modernization

Satellite Rescue Network Gets Space Technology Hall of Fame Recognition

Last year, the multinational COSPAS-SARSAT program saved 253 people.

Digital Government

How the Right People Analyzing the Best Data Are Transforming Government

‘If you want to succeed, you’ve got to be willing to fail and test things out,’ OMB official says.

Digital Government

Agencies Waste Hundreds of Millions on Software

And GAO says the White House bears some of the blame.

Emerging Tech

Self-Driving Cars are Hitting California Roads (for Testing) This September

California has become one of the first states to create working regulations for autonomous vehicles on public roads.

Emerging Tech

America Just Launched a Rocket on a Secret Mission Into Space

An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, equipped with a "classified satellite" for the National Reconnaissance Office.

Modernization

Software-defined storage aims for ease of management

The successor to storage virtualization remains largely untested by agencies, but industry experts say the benefits will change that soon enough.