Digital Government
Los Alamos Lab gets its own app
The once-secretive government lab that gave birth to the atomic bomb now offers history and news to anyone with an iPhone.
Cybersecurity
Why Insiders, Not Hackers, Are the Biggest Threat to Cybersecurity
Edward Snowden's case reminds us that employees often pose a greater risk than foreign cyberspies.
Digital Government
Weather satellite recovers for storm season
A geostationary satellite that had been shut down after getting hit by a meteor is back in action.
Digital Government
How the Post Office's 'eye in the sky' fights fraud
With heat maps, predictive modeling and data streams provided by private-sector firms, USPS' RADR system sounds like an intelligence project -- minus all the secrecy.
Digital Government
NSA Should Start a 411 Service
The companies running it now don’t seem to have many phone numbers.
Modernization
Google’s Purchase of Waze Would Deal a Death Blow to Other Companies’ Mapping Efforts
The Israeli app offers mapping, navigation and traffic reports based on automated data from its users’ phones.
Digital Government
Edward Snowden’s Lesson to Both Businesses and the NSA: Your IT People Are Your Biggest Risk
Whether you’re running a 20-person office or the world’s biggest intelligence agency, remember who has the power to blow you up.
Digital Government
Visualizing the Stunning Growth of 8 Years of OpenStreetMap
Of course, these people know how to map their own mapping exploits.
Digital Government
Silicon Valley is More Involved in National Security Than You Think
NSA's data operations are largely privatized.
Digital Government
Government’s Data Grabs Are Unlikely to Prompt Legislative Action
Lawmakers have little appetite for undoing legislation that allowed the sweeps.
Digital Government
Putting open data to use
Posting spreadsheets to Data.gov is no longer enough. Agencies are increasingly using open data — their own and from other sources — in pursuit of core missions.
Emerging Tech
When Sci-Fi Crime-Prevention Tactics Aren't Actually That Far-Fetched
The Purge seems implausible, but according to criminologists, some sci-fi films' law-enforcement methods could be possible one day—and some are in use right now.
Cybersecurity
Obama's Cyberwar Target List Just Made His Meeting with China Very Difficult
Cyberwar is all-but-officially the new Cold War.
Digital Government
Every Library and Museum in America, Mapped
America's collection of museums and libraries is actually super impressive when you look at it on a map.
Digital Government
Moneyball Diplomacy
New data analysis tools could add a quantitative layer to how the U.S. manages foreign policy.
Acquisition
GSA IG criticizes managers meddling in contract negotiations
The report could inadvertently impede efforts to keep agencies and contractors talking, some fear.
Emerging Tech
Do We Need a Data Court?
FISA courts may not be equipped to make fast and smart decisions in the big data world.
Digital Government
Wanted: A rockstar developer for Data.gov
GSA wants to bring the talent behind its open-data project in-house.
Cybersecurity
What Google and NSA Snoops Have in Common
The world's Internet companies got rich behaving just like our government's intelligence apparatus.
Cybersecurity