Digital Government

Is 16 Minutes the Best We Can Do for Tornado Warnings?

For now, yes. But Congress would like to change that.

Digital Government

How Hard Will Lisa Jackson Pressure Apple's Suppliers on the Environment?

The former EPA chief faces new challenges.

Emerging Tech

Cell Providers Must Bounce Back 911 Texts That Don’t Go Through

Text-to-911 service is coming for major wireless carriers in 2014.

Emerging Tech

What Will the App Developers Make of This?

A look at the government's newly released streaming data feeds.

Digital Government

Army Puts Out Casting Call for Spanish Radio Novella

Program would promote family values to counter guerilla messaging.

Emerging Tech

This Is What It Feels Like to Finally Reach Space

Smiles on the faces of all the astronauts last night as they boarded the International Space Station

Emerging Tech

Our Equal Future: Does Technology Hold the Key to a Flatter World?

Far from making the world more fair, technology serves to reinforce, and perhaps even increase, inequalities.

Acquisition

New sourcing rules for China IT remain a work in progress

Two months after becoming law, restrictions and their impact remain unclear to industry and agencies alike.

Cybersecurity

China Doesn't Care if Its 'Digitalized' Military Cyberwar Drill Scares You

The drill is taking place on a large military training field and not some underground hack-a-thon bunker.

Modernization

Did Amazon short-cut FedRAMP?

A reader argues that Amazon Web Services did not go through 'the actual FedRAMP certification process.' Is that a fair criticism?

Modernization

The Most Fascinating Charts From an Epic Slideshow of Internet Trends

Facebook is the only major social network in decline. Saudis share more online than anyone. You check your phone 150 times a day. And much more.

Digital Government

NOAA resurrects backup weather satellite after GOES-13 failure

Faltering satellite provides imaging vital to short-term weather forecasts for the eastern United States and Atlantic Ocean.

Cybersecurity

DHS seeks better acquisition ideas

Borras: 'One-size fits all approach' to acquisition is 'unrealistic.'

People

RFP-EZ delivers early value

Administration says new online procurement tool brings cheaper bids, new vendors into the federal IT marketplace.

Emerging Tech

Jurassic Park Is Real...for 400-Year-Old Arctic Mosses

Scientists have successfully regrown vegetation that had been trapped in a glacier.

Modernization

SoftBank’s Contentious Bid for Sprint Nextel Finally Gets U.S. Government Approval

The deal was put on hold over fears that SoftBank’s ties to Chinese manufacturers would endanger national security

Modernization

Lisa Jackson, Former EPA Chief, Works for Tim Cook Now

Jackson stepped down at the end of 2012 from the EPA after a series of political disasters.

Digital Government

Millennials Are Rewriting the Definition of Work

Younger workers want to work where and when they want.