Emerging Tech
These government apps are on the drawing board
New mobile tools are under consideration at the National Archives and elsewhere.
Modernization
Would you rather check the weather in space or sort data?
Either way, NASA has an app for you.
Modernization
NASA’s space weather app has great images but lags on engagement
The agency could do more to publicize major space events and appeal to kids, our reviewers say.
Modernization
NASA’s Satellite Insight gaming app isn’t educational or fun
The game doesn’t teach users much and it can’t compete with Bejeweled and Tetris.
Emerging Tech
Homeland Security looks to fast-track technology development
Officials ask inventors whether ‘rapid prototyping’ over a two-year schedule could work for border security and other innovations.
Modernization
DHS's Margie Graves puts agile first
A software-development technique that forgoes the rigors of conventional processes in favor of nimbleness is gaining increased popularity in government.
Acquisition
Are procurement contests entering the IT mainstream?
Steve Kelman is hopeful that the VA's unusual choice to host a competition for an IT system will break new ground.
Modernization
Google wants to own the airwaves, now
The search company is asking the FCC for a license to create an experimental radio service.
Cybersecurity
Inside the eastern European cybercrime network that brought down NASA
Federal authorities charged three men with building and disseminating a virus that crippled NASA computers.
Digital Government
You say Pakistanis all hate the drone war? Prove it
According to the latest Pew research, only a slim majority of them are aware it even exists.
Ideas
Recovery Act money for smart grid was mismanaged, IG says
Audit finds $12.3 million in questionable costs.
Emerging Tech
We the People petitioners typically wait three months for a reply
The White House’s response time to appeals from citizens varies widely.
Emerging Tech
Access to broadband internet is the new access to ports, rail, and electricity
"State of the Internet" report says Korea leads in high-speed access worldwide.
Modernization
The iPhone app that helped save Algerian hostages in the desert
The compass application guided the hostages for 20 miles.
Digital Government
Senate resumes cybersecurity push
Democratic bill co-sponsored by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.)would return efforts to pass comprehensive cybersecurity legislation to the Senate's front burner.
Digital Government
The bright side of obsolescence
COBOL is old, limited and stagnant. But it has one thing going for it.
Emerging Tech
An entire Senate on Twitter. Really.
Senators don’t just have Twitter accounts, they’re sharing useful information.
People
New acquisition chief brings customer perspective
Thomas Sharpe, who is taking the corner office at GSA's Federal Acquisition Service, has been on the other side of the fence for years.
Modernization
Here come Apple's huge iPhone sales numbers
Apple will soon deliver its earnings report for the end of 2012.
Digital Government