Modernization
Now Your iPhone Can Pester You to Buy Whatever You’re Standing Next to
iBeacon sends alerts to your home screen when you're standing near an Apple store or other hotspot.
Cybersecurity
DARPA Plugs Contest for Watson-like System to Deflect Hackers
Cyber Grand Challenge winners will take home $2 million to create an unmanned hacker-stopper.
Digital Government
Using Search Tools to Declassify Presidential Docs -- Starting With Reagan's
White House also vows to bring all FOIA requests into a single platform.
Digital Government
White House unveils new open-government goals
The plan is a grab bag of existing transparency initiatives and a preview of policies due out next year.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon exploring methods to mitigate insider threats
The Defense Department wants contractors to offer up ideas on combatting espionage, sabotage, treason and terrorism.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Accidentally Auction Secrets, Ruin Relationships and Game Investors
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
Congress still awaiting IT security answers from VA
Hill sources say the House Veterans' Affairs Committee has received only a single response to its multitude of inquiries.
Cybersecurity
Looking beyond the cyber framework
With final comments on the NIST plan due Dec. 13, industry and agency experts are contemplating what comes next.
Cybersecurity
DARPA gears up for Cyber Grand Challenge
The challenge is a chess-like competition that pits teams of researchers against each other in a contest to develop unmanned cybersecurity systems.
Acquisition
Davie: GSA saved a billion on 2013 IT buys
The assistant commissioner for Integrated Technology Services claimed $1.35 billion in savings through innovation and reduced duplication of effort.
Emerging Tech
Another Problem for Amazon's Delivery Drones? Angry Birds
The notional postal workers may be flying some exceedingly unfriendly skies.
Digital Government
OPM to Agencies: Don't Forget to Expand Telework This Winter
Agencies must increase the number of telework-ready employees as part of continuity of operations plans.
People
Telework Week 2014 aims higher
The Mobile Work Exchange wants to exceed 2013's record number of 112,000 federal employee participants.
Digital Government
America’s Outer-Space Spy Program Has a New Mascot: a World-Eating Octopus
James Clapper tweets.
Acquisition
Financial management and freedom of choice
An industry spokesman argues that an official preference for federal shared service providers will hurt the agencies hoping to consolidate.
Digital Government
Treasury, Recovery Board Officials Embrace Efforts to Standardize Federal Data
Leaders of governmentwide transparency aren’t waiting for DATA Act.
Emerging Tech
Smart Sanctions 2.0
Sanctions should carve out space for personal tech that can promote human rights.
Digital Government
For Some of Us, Recovery From War Is Its Own Hell
There’s an interesting debate going on in the comments on my Tuesday article.
Digital Government
VA Paperless Claims System ‘Spontaneously’ Shuts Down
The system also mixes up evidence between veterans’ files, lawmakers told.
Emerging Tech