Emerging Tech

White House Touts Citizen Responses to State of the Union

The Obama administration is collecting sentence-by-sentence responses to the speech using a new digital tool.

Cybersecurity

The return of CISPA

A controversial bill that died in the Senate last year has been reintroduced, with bipartisan sponsors defending the legislation's privacy protections.

Cybersecurity

So there's an executive order: Now what?

With the cybersecurity directive now official, stakeholders start to wrestle with questions of implementation.

Acquisition

OASIS creates thirst for answers

Does GSA's latest contract for professional services push strategic sourcing past reasonable limits?

Modernization

Why Google Pays Apple $1 Billion a Year

As of March, something like 80 percent of Google's phone-search profits came from Apple devices.

Digital Government

An Optimistic Era for Global Infectious Disease Control

The newly appointed director of the Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis, and Malaria believes international health efforts are at the cusp of containing these epidemics.

People

How measurement motivates

Steve Kelman explains the power of stretch goals over general encouragement.

Emerging Tech

Walter Cronkite Demonstrates the Home of the Future in 1967

Take heart. You could be controlling your television from a panel half the size of a pool table.

People

GSA gains a CFO

Mike Casella is moving from USAID to GSA to manage the agency's finances.

Digital Government

National Library of Medicine Seeks User Data from Social Media

Officials want to know how people use data during emergencies and push information more effectively.

Ideas

Storify: Nextgov's #SOTU Livetweets

Relive the real-time updates of Obama's speech.

Emerging Tech

State of the Union is Most Tweeted in History

More than 1 million tweets were posted using the #SOTU hash tag.

Cybersecurity

Obama’s cyber executive order lays foundation for mandatory regulations

The directive expands to all critical sectors a Defense Department program that shares classified threat intelligence.

Cybersecurity

Anonymous Wants to Ruin Your State of the Union Livestream

The do-gooder hacking collective wants to black out the speech for several reasons.

Digital Government

DOD Aims to Shield Nuke Operations From Budget Cuts

Administration officials say U.S. nuclear weapons operations are a national priority.

Digital Government

Analytics guru Nate Silver offers advice for agencies

Silver's big-data rule number one: 'Don't become too enamored with computers.'

Digital Government

Pentagon officials push back on the Hill

DOD's Ashton Carter warns that a new national defense strategy might be needed if sequestration takes effect.

Cybersecurity

Obama signs executive order for cybersecurity

Also: Expect the resurrection of one of last year's failed cybersecurity bills.

People

Obama announces cyber executive order during speech

State of the Union address also touches on impending budget cuts.