Emerging Tech
A Broken Immigration System and Patent Trolls are Stifling Tech Innovation
An industry leader says Congress must address urgent policy issues.
Digital Government
Secret Court and Rand Paul Face Off Over Domestic Spying
NSA gets green light to continue collecting U.S. call logs and the 2016 presidential hopeful announces a class action lawsuit to stop it.
Cybersecurity
Will the NSA Spying Revelations Hurt America’s Nascent Cyberforensics Industry Abroad?
Exporting this lucrative corner of the American tech scene might not be so easy.
Digital Government
Why Telework When You Can Take a Snow Day?
Conflicting regulations confuse feds and create disincentives for telework.
Emerging Tech
Want to Make Digital Government Work? Hire Your Own Coders
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s software engineers take an agile approach to government software development.
Emerging Tech
GSA Wants to Use Computer Games to Teach Contracting
Land the acquisition to save the princess!
Cybersecurity
Hackers Pickpocket Boston Diners, Expose Snapchat and Hold Up Bank Computers
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
Everyone Needs a Cyber Textbook
Brookings Institution scholar Peter W. Singer co-authored a new book that aims to get the IT Crowd and the rest of us on the same page.
Digital Government
Get Ready for the Obamacare Ad Blitz
Now that the website works, the administration needs people to enroll in health care plans.
Cybersecurity
Lawsuit Claims Facebook Is Reading Your Private Messages
The practice violates California state law, class action alleges.
Digital Government
Republicans to Open 2014 with Obamacare Data Theft Bill
The GOP is pushing legislation that would require the administration to disclose any security breaches on the exchanges.
Digital Government
Latest NSA Leak Nears Science Fiction Levels
Documents reveal the intelligence agency is racing NASA, Google and the scientific community to build the most powerful computer in the world.
People
It is time for leaders to step up or step aside
CACI International's Jack London offers his take on the four essential characteristics that distinguish the best leaders.
Digital Government
The Case of the Disappearing Health Record Presentations
Files are no longer on SPAWAR-LANT website.
Cybersecurity
NSA Leak Spawns Fake Spyware Site
Parody of leaked agency hacking tool catalog generates bizarro codenames for each instrument.
Emerging Tech
The White House Owes Responses to 30 Citizen Petitions; Some Have Been Waiting for Years
The administration faces a backlog of qualifying petitions under a program it created.
Digital Government