Cybersecurity

Three things to watch on information sharing

The ODNI'S Kshemendra Paul offers a guide to the 2014 Information Sharing Environment.

People

Can acquisition be improved through fun and games?

ASI Government's Lisa Akers argues that the real potential is in training and developing critical thinking.

Ideas

Analysis: Three IT Procurement Problems Worth Solving

If agencies want to tap the expertise of innovative tech startups, they have to fix the process for doing business with them.

Digital Government

VA and Pentagon Set Up Online System to Handle GI Bill Ripoff Complaints

The feedback will help the government stop abusive or unethical practices.

Emerging Tech

Feds Shoot Down Beer Delivery by Drone

It seemed like a foolproof business model, but the FAA says it’s illegal.

Emerging Tech

Commerce Seeks a Single System to Manage Its Citizen Services

Similar private-sector platforms allow customers to have a single profile across different divisions of a company.

Emerging Tech

Why the Real Estate Industry Is Interested in Drones, Too

They're quickly changing the art of visualizing buildings.

Modernization

Why Google Just Sold Motorola to Lenovo for $3 Billion

Google originally bought the company for $12.5 billion in May 2012.

Modernization

Have Presidential Speeches Gotten More 'Tweetable'?

Not really, but the speech is but one piece of the spectacle of the State of the Union.

Digital Government

31 Percent of Feds Will Be Eligible to Retire by 2017

Report calls for broader workforce planning efforts to keep mission-critical areas fully staffed.

Cybersecurity

Mobile malware meets BYOD

Infections of malicious software in mobile devices surged by 20 percent in 2013, just as bring-your-own-device strategies are gaining greater acceptance in government.

Digital Government

Presidential fellow hawks MyUSA site as proof government can innovate

The upcoming launch of the My.USA.gov will help agencies engage with the public, says Hillary Hartley.

Digital Government

Defense Launches New Health Record Procurement

Officials plan to deploy the EHR, which ultimately will serve 9.6 million beneficiaries and 70,000 clinicians, starting in late 2016.

Digital Government

Colorado Terror Suspect Is First to Challenge Warrantless NSA Surveillance in Court

Muhtorov was accused of aiding an Islamist militant group overseas.

Modernization

Why Free Games Are Increasingly the Most Profitable Apps

The most downloaded apps are games.

Digital Government

Pentagon Chief Tester: F-35 Software Remains Seriously Flawed

The fighter aircraft could not conduct operational missions today, report finds.

Cybersecurity

Defense, DHS, VA drive rise in federal employment

Three national-security related departments accounted for 77 percent of the total government-wide increase in compensation from 2004 to 2012.

Modernization

How Will the Government Regulate the Phones of the Future?

The FCC is about to study its regulations.

Cybersecurity

Study: Biz data collection a bigger worry than government

Three-quarters of those polled were more concerned about privacy than they were a year ago, and more cited business data collection, rather than government surveillance programs, as the reason.

Modernization

What federal agencies can learn from the Super Bowl

The public safety cloud that supports security at the event serves as a case study in connecting numerous disparate groups and people to identify and mitigate risks.