Cybersecurity
How the NSA Undermines Cybersecurity to Protect You
As part of its push for mass surveillance, the spy agency has taken steps to sabotage cybersecurity.
Digital Government
Cyber Education Gets a Nonprofit Boost
(ISC)2 provides educational resources to colleges and universities.
Digital Government
House seeks details on VA's health record push
Three-fourths of agency's IT funding would be contingent on Congress getting a granular explanation of the plan for VistA.
Digital Government
A Fake Toilet Company Raises Legitimate Questions About Government Data-Tracking
Even the most intimate spaces are becoming public.
Acquisition
Pentagon ponders making IT subject to same rules as weapons
Defense Undersecretary Frank Kendall and Sen. Joe Donnelly used an Armed Services Committee hearing to discuss the possibility of using the same cost guidelines for IT and weapons systems.
Emerging Tech
Want More Renewable Energy? Send in the Drones
Out in the desert it's hard to know when one solar panel among millions has failed. Unless you're a drone.
Digital Government
Science council approves big-data privacy report
“Technology alone can't reduce privacy risks,” says computer science professor Susan Graham, one of the authors of a White House report on big data. “There has to be policy as well.”
Modernization
FCC Chief Vows No Internet 'Slow Lanes'
Tom Wheeler defends his proposed net-neutrality rules.
Cybersecurity
Tech council blasts IT acquisition report
GSA's product- and service-centric approach ignores how those products and services would be used, argues the Information Technology Industry Council.
Digital Government
Coping with Congress
Lawmakers have given agencies long-term funding clarity for the first time in years. But the lack of budget drama could open the door to other conflicts.
Digital Government
EPA and Congress clash over regulatory authority
For Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, getting to know Capitol Hill has not been a pleasant experience.
Digital Government
The downside of big data
Big data is all well and good, FCW's cartoonist notes, but eventually it has to go somewhere.
Acquisition
Storehouse of procurement numbers could aid Data Act implementation
Information gathered as part of the reverse auction process could provide the type of granular data that's hard to come by.
Cybersecurity
NIST Removes NSA-Tainted Algorithm From Cryptographic Standards
Snowden documents say NSA introduced weaknesses to the number-generating guidance.
Digital Government
CDC Official Protests Federal Medical Response Cuts
Reduced spending has been "extremely damaging" to capabilities across the country, Dr. Ali Khan says.
Digital Government
There May Not Be Another Defense CIO Until 2017
Insiders are saying there isn’t enough time left in Obama’s second term to warrant a replacement for Teri Takai.
Digital Government
Four Things You Should Do To Get the Most Out of Teleworkers
Even CIOs struggle to manage remote workers.
Digital Government
VA Eyes Cash Prizes to Generate Ideas for New Health Record
Department officials want to tap broad intellectual resources.
Digital Government
Hate Being Near Sick People? There’s an App for That
Sickweather uses Facebook statuses and tweets about runny noses to create its real-time map of contagion.
Digital Government