Digital Government
Takai to leave DOD
CIO's May departure will add to the Pentagon's growing list of senior IT and management vacancies.
Digital Government
Data Act sent to president
The House passed the spending transparency legislation easily, as the Senate did earlier, but it's not clear what the White House position is.
Digital Government
Obama Orders Investigation of Veteran Deaths in Phoenix
Clinical experts are reviewing operations at the center where as many as 40 vets are alleged to have died awaiting care.
Cybersecurity
Commerce bureaus flunk cyber test
The department's inspector general used automated software to direct suspicious traffic at the public-facing websites of five offices; only one analyzed and moved to block the threat.
Acquisition
Seeking some common ground
Federal IT is difficult enough without viewing agencies and industry as zero-sum adversaries, writes FCW's Troy K. Schneider.
Cybersecurity
Another Windows XP vulnerability exposed
Cybersecurity firm Qualys estimated that more than 10 percent of computers used in government and corporations worldwide still use the OS, which Microsoft stopped supporting three weeks ago.
Digital Government
Big data policy preview reveals equity concerns
“We need to pay careful attention to what unexpected outcomes the use of big data might lead to, and how to remedy any unintended discrimination or inequality that may result," according to presidential advisor John Podesta, who is heading up a White House policy review.
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