Modernization
How Smartphones Could Revolutionize the Way We Heat and Cool Our Homes
Customers could run their appliances and manage their utilities from their mobile devices, cutting down on power use.
Emerging Tech
The New House Republican Web Strategy: Just Add BuzzFeed
NRCC site redesign will likely be rolled out this weekend.
Digital Government
Hagel plans budget in trying times
DOD needs flexibility and budget certainty to address acquisition, personnel, and overhead costs in smart ways, but is going to have to do its best without them.
Digital Government
Seeking Yodas for data analysis
A few people are especially adept at planning and using big-data strategies. Why not sprinkle them throughout the government?
Digital Government
Waning Leadership Scores Tied to Low Morale
Study shows employees planning to leave their jobs rated top management lower.
Acquisition
Acquisition mythbusting gets the spotlight
Work for an agency that did great things with acquisition? You might want to consider it for the Myth-busting Award.
People
CIOs on cyber workers
A new report seeks to help agency leaders understand the cybersecurity workforce.
Digital Government
This Defense Contractor Is Repeatedly Spear-Phishing 68,000 Innocent People
The exercise is meant to teach employees how to identify and report network intrusions.
Emerging Tech
Development Agency’s Chief Innovator to Step Down
Maura O’Neill championed private sector funding models for innovations in international development.
Cybersecurity
How do You Create U.S. Cyber Guidelines for Foreign Firms?
Multinational companies and critical U.S. businesses with consumer divisions could have trouble fitting into a standard security framework.
Digital Government
Hagel Takes Aim at Risky and Expensive Pentagon Programs
In his first major policy speech, the Defense secretary also blasted the bloated bureaucracy.
Digital Government
Feds could take a Twitter lesson from Capitol Hill
Some members of Congress excel in their use of social media, research service finds.
Digital Government
Food and Drug Agency Triples Down on Data Mining
The FDA has begun solicitations for three services to analyze drug data in the past month.
Modernization
The First Mobile Phone Call Was Made 40 Years Ago Today
Motorola employee Martin Cooper made the first call in 1973.
Digital Government
Hagel weighs major reforms, Pentagon priorities
Newly-appointed Secretary of Defense vows to confront the major factors responsible for the department's spending growth.
People
Linda Cureton's next move
The departing NASA CIO launches herself into the final frontier with a new private-sector enterprise.
People
Is federal leadership on the decline?
NASA tops the list in the 2012 Best Places to Work analysis, but governmentwide scores drop for the first time.
Digital Government
There is no mobile government without a mobile citizen
For all of the gains agencies are making with employee mobility, it is critical for agencies to keep in mind the use of mobile devices outside of the government too, writes Adobe's John Landwehr.
Digital Government
Two New H7N9 Cases: See How Bird Flu Is Spreading Through China
Cases of the avian flu continue to increase across China.
Emerging Tech