Digital Government

Pentagon to Ask for More Cyber Spending in Next Budget

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the department would focus more on intelligence gathering, reconnaissance.

Digital Government

U.S. ranks sixth in use of digital government

Singapore, Norway and the United Arab Emirates were the top three in Accenture’s digital government survey.

Modernization

Moon Lasers Are Creating the Galaxy’s Fastest Internet

Want this article to load more quickly? Read it in space.

Digital Government

Energy Department to Approve Billions in Nuclear Backing

Nuclear power accounts for about 20 percent of the nation's electricity.

Digital Government

GSA offers prizes for travel data tool

The top three entries in the Travel Data Challenge will share $90,000 in prize money.

Cybersecurity

Australian blunder exposes asylum seekers’ identities

Government (Foreign) // Australia

Ideas

Do You Work in Federal Technology? We Want to Hear From You.

We’re launching quarterly surveys to chart the evolving priorities, roles and responsibilities that underpin the technologies supporting agency missions.

Digital Government

VA Needs to Embrace Tech-Savvy, Mobile Veterans

More than 30 percent of the agency's employees and half of its senior execs are eligible for retirement.

Emerging Tech

Social Media Makes the State Department Nimbler

Diplomats advised to 'never tweet anything you don’t want to see on the front page of the Washington Post.'

Digital Government

DISA Signs $40.5 Million Adobe Software Deal

Pact covers DISA, Army and Air Force.

Digital Government

Edward Snowden Just Got Yet Another New Job

University of Glasgow students elect the former NSA contractor to represent them as rector.

Digital Government

Under Fire, GOP Adjusts Fake Democratic Campaign Sites

NRCC changes the donation page to make it clearer who benefits from contributions.

Digital Government

Underground Plutonium Waste Plant Hit by Radiation Leak and Fire

Facility stores 3.2 million cubic feet of waste in salt caverns.

Digital Government

Map of the World key to full immersion in geospatial data

Advances in cloud computing, mobile technology, networking, data transfer and computing speed allow for immediate access to geospatial data, and the intelligence community is ready to put that data to use.

Modernization

Now Your Phone Can Help Cure Cancer

Harness your smartphone's incredible processing power to help conduct scientific research.

Modernization

White House team seeks answers on agency spectrum management

The move is the latest in the administration’s effort to free up spectrum for use in wireless broadband to meet the growing demand for data-intensive mobile services.

Cybersecurity

The Target Data Hack Cost Banks More Than $200 Million

New estimates pin the cost of last year’s robbery higher than previously thought.

Emerging Tech

The Best Cameramen at the Olympics Are Drones

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles for sports photography is far from a passing gimmick.

People

New Zealand civil service: A land without turkey farms

Steve Kelman discovers that the Kiwis' public sector does not even have terms for "turkey farm" or "retired in place."

Cybersecurity

U.S. Spied on More Than 300,000 AT&T Customers in 2013

Like Verizon, the telecom titan received far more requests for customer data than Internet companies did.