Digital Government
Vets Need Help Moving Into Tech Careers After Military Service
Many have trouble describing their skills in civilian terms.
Emerging Tech
Petition to Pardon NSA Leaker is Among Most Popular Ever Posted to White House Site
It drew 1,000 signatures an hour Monday afternoon.
Digital Government
Contractors to Handle Marines Corps' Cyber Arsenal
Reliance on non-government employees for sensitive operations raises questions about insider threats.
Modernization
Social Security Taps EMC for $210 Million Sole Source Storage Award
SSA sees EMC as more efficient and risk free than competitors.
Digital Government
Commerce Seeks Unified Customer Management System
The cloud-based system will replace numerous legacy programs.
People
Petitioners rally around Guardian source
Edward Snowden has not yet been charged with a crime, but already a petition has hit the White House's 'We The People' site demanding a full pardon.
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