Digital Government
DHS Releases Career Guidance for IT Professionals
Homeland Security CIO Richard Spires aims to help people make better career decisions.
Cybersecurity
Could a White House Order on Cybersecurity Drop This Week?
After high-profile attacks, reports say directive could come as early as this week.
Emerging Tech
Data.gov Launches a New Consumer Community
The group includes more than 500 data sets that could could be tapped to make consumers smarter or safer.
Ideas
New Guide Offers Tips for Collaborating Across Agencies
Report focuses on the necessary people skills and organizational processes.
Cybersecurity
Commentary: Real cyber reform demands White House leadership
Cybersecurity isn’t a computer problem; it’s a societal problem.
Emerging Tech
The State of the Union Goes Interactive
Citizens can use a new White House tool to tell officials how topics from Tuesday’s speech affect them.
Digital Government
Obama to host second 'fireside hangout' after speech
Want to ask the president a question? Submit yours by Feb. 13 and he may answer it on a Google+ event following the State of the Union address.
Acquisition
DOD struggles to justify sole source awards
A law that took effect in 2011 requires written justification for sole-source contracts when they're worth more than $20 million. Why is DOD finding that a hard rule to follow?
Digital Government
Responsive design: Planning for future-friendly websites
A new design technique allows developers to design one website that adjusts to a variety of mobile platforms.
People
SBA leader to step down
SBA's Karen Mills announces she will leave her post when her successor is confirmed.
Emerging Tech
Are Spy Drones Being Used to Find Fugitive Christopher Dorner?
If it's true, Dorner wouldn't be the first human target on American soil.
Digital Government
'Shooting Therapy' Did Not Kill Navy SEAL Chris Kyle
Reintroducing patients with PTSD to whatever triggers their symptoms -- gradually, in a clinical setting -- can be effective. Veterans Chris Kyle and Eddie Ray Routh were not at a shooting range as part of exposure therapy on the day Routh killed Kyle.
Digital Government
Is a 1 Percent Pay Raise Enough?
Even with the pay freeze lifted, if could still be hard to keep pace with private sector IT salaries.
Cybersecurity
DHS offers IT career path guide
CIO Richard Spires announces the release of a document that explains how IT professionals can have a successful career at Homeland Security.
Acquisition
NASA open source project back on track
The incumbent vendor, who lost the latest competition, has withdrawn a protest that had threatened to stop the space agency's efforts to move to an open-source content management system.
Cybersecurity
Hackers execute sophisticated strike on government cybersecurity contractor Bit9
The two-step supply chain attack echos earlier assault on security vendor RSA.
Cybersecurity
Kuwait hackers' throw shoe at Iraq PM on his official site
Government (Foreign) // Iraq
Cybersecurity
RSA-like sophisticated attack strikes another security contractor
Defense Industrial Base // Energy // Financial Services // Government (U.S.) // Government Contractor // Social Media // Web Services // Other Critical Infrastructure
Cybersecurity