Digital Government

Tableau’s $150 million IPO offers more proof of Big Data’s big growth potential

The company's bread and butter is sophisticated analytics software and services.

Digital Government

Key Pentagon IT Programs Survived 2013 Budget Cuts Mostly Unscathed

Despite sequester, DISA received full funding but Army communications took a $537 million hit in omnibus budget.

Digital Government

Could feds run afoul of vague 'political intelligence' guidelines?

Though federal employees are often the source of valuable information on rulemaking and other government actions, the definitions and disclosure guidelines remain unclear.

People

Progress and problems in hashing out government mobile baseline

s government agencies work to implement measures under the White House's digital government strategy, leaders say collaboration and learning as they go along are helping to propel progress.

Digital Government

More questions on global cyber war

The Conversation: FCW's reporters and editors respond to your comments.

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.

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.