People
Eric T. Brassil: Freeing the flow of State Department reports
Thanks to this Rising Star, reports on 280 overseas posts are now easily accessible for Foreign Service officers and interagency employees.
Digital Government
Your essential catch-up of the week's news
Returning from the shutdown, what's wrong with Healthcare.gov, and a film review.
Digital Government
Did Politics Help Cause HealthCare.gov Failures?
Partisan rancor and heightened scrutiny may have caused less efficient site development.
Digital Government
Lawmakers, DHS Weigh How to Secure Ports Most Vulnerable to WMDs
Homeland Security lacks a presence in about half of the ports considered high risk.
Cybersecurity
NIST Misses Deadline for Cybersecurity Framework
An executive order calls for the agency to set standards and best practices to promote the protection of critical infrastructure.
Digital Government
Missing Source Code, Poor Search Tools Plague Obamacare Website
Follow key reporting on the Obama administration’s signature policy initiative.
Cybersecurity
How to Get NSA's Attention (It's Art)
Gmail extension tacks text onto emails, algorithmically generated to be flagged by NSA filters.
Emerging Tech
Feds Chronicle First Day Back in Social Media
Most official Twitter and other accounts were silent during the shutdown.
Cybersecurity
Nominee picked to replace Napolitano at DHS
The administration's choice to lead the department brings legal experience.
Digital Government
Telework Now Offered by 88 Percent of Organizations
Mobility increasing at most workplaces, despite a few visible defectors, including HP, Best Buy and Yahoo!
Digital Government
The Key to Solving the Science and Math Talent Shortage? Women
Women are nearly half the U.S. workforce but only 23 percent of STEM employees.
Acquisition
GSA sets new OASIS deadline
With the government shutdown lifted, GSA is finally ready to close the door on proposal submissions.
People
Rebecca Schwartz: Nanotechnology for the troops
Much of Rebecca Schwartz's research at Lockheed Martin is classified, but her work is generally geared toward developing technical solutions to reduce the physical burden of troops in combat.
People
Fed tweeters back in action
The end of the shutdown brings expressions of relief, 140 characters at a time.
People
Michael Shrader: Aiding small tech manufacturers
As a VP at Carahsoft, Shrader oversees more than 50 small companies.
People
IT training trails new technology
The IT professionals who manage and operate federal systems are often unprepared to deal with technology advances because they lack time and money for adequate training.
People
Start-ups: Can there be too much of a good thing?
Encouraging young people to take risks and pursue business ideas is well and good, but efforts to persuade students to skip college in favor of start-up work go too far, Steve Kelman suggests.
Digital Government
What Does It Mean for the U.S. to 'Lose Control of the Internet?'
The NSA revelations have thrown open an Internet governance dispute that seemed resolved.
Digital Government