People

Tester takes leadership role on federal efficiency

Montana's junior senator has taken the helm of a new subcommittee overseeing the efficiency and effectiveness of federal programs.

People

A graphic look at federal hiring

Vacancies and staff turnover are seemingly a fact of life for today's agency IT executives. And for senior positions, the hiring hoops can take many forms.

Cybersecurity

What's wrong with cybersecurity training?

An emphasis on academic accomplishment rather than real-world skills might be part of the reason the government has so much trouble filling cybersecurity positions.

Emerging Tech

Snowden Petition Shows Many Paths to a White House Response

A post-indictment boost gave a petition to pardon the NSA leaker enough signatures for an official administration reply.

Digital Government

Most of Us Just Love Drones, Apparently

Survey shows an overwhelming majority of Americans support the use of unmanned aircraft for security and search and rescue.

Emerging Tech

Labor Does More With Less on Streaming Data

The agency has a single Application Programming Interface that connects to 175 data sets.

Digital Government

Wyden: Medicare data should be more transparent

Wyden, Grassley re-introduce bipartisan bill to establish database for Medicare information.

Digital Government

Eight Clever Ideas for Making Government Work Better With Data

Easy-to-use tools to cut through bureaucratic red tape, via the Knight News Challenge.

People

Census in the spotlight at open source summit

With projects this year and in 2012, Census is testing the open-data waters in significant ways.

Digital Government

Feds Still Ahead on Telework

Government leads the private sector on expanding opportunities to work remotely.

People

Cureton's successor picked at NASA

Larry Sweet, NASA's new CIO, takes office as the agency is under IG pressure to improve its IT management.

Digital Government

Navy Relieves Enterprise IT Program Manager

Capt. Shawn Hendricks had an “improper relationship” with a female contractor, officials said.

Modernization

DISA Plans $450 Million Commercial Cloud Buy

Agency pursues five-year storage, Web, database and application hosting deal.

Digital Government

How a Massive Nuclear Nonproliferation Effort Led to More Proliferation

More than a decade of negotiations with Russia produced a clear winner, and it was not the United States.

Modernization

Say Hello to Solar-Paneled Clothing That Charges Your Phone

This "Wearable Solar" clothing allegedly can restore half of a phone's power when worn in bright sunlight.

People

Tangherlini nomination goes to full Senate

GSA's acting administrator has just one hurdle left before getting the job on a permanent basis.

People

New challenges face the new Presidential Innovation Fellows

A new group of private-sector leading lights has been assembled to try to outdo last year's class.

Emerging Tech

Meet 43 Smart People Who Plan to Make Government Work Better

The second round of Presidential Innovation Fellows will focus on improving disaster response and federal financial systems.

Cybersecurity

Measuring cybersecurity progress

Agencies are making significant progress on priority cybersecurity goals, but may not meet their 2014 targets.