Emerging Tech
Pentagon to fund new ways to detect explosives
DARPA is seeking different approaches to identifying IEDs.
Digital Government
Budget uncertainty breeds workforce challenges
It’s hard to recruit and retain employees when the future fiscal climate is hazy.
Cybersecurity
BBC programming disrupted in Middle East
Move comes after satellite provider Eutelsat pulled the plug on Iran broadcaster.
People
Kelman: Changes of mind on the GSA scandal
Steve Kelman gauges how his students felt about the GSA conference spending scandal before and then after taking part of a course on management and leadership.
Acquisition
Executive compensation debate returns
A group of organizations, including labor unions and government watchdog groups, are asking Congress to reduce the cap on salary compensation that agencies pay to contractors.
Digital Government
CIA seeks approval to expand drone fleet
Agency wants as many as 10, Washington Post reports.
Modernization
FCC official downplays spectrum estimates from auctions
Incentive auctions were first proposed by the FCC two years ago in its National Broadband Plan as one of the ways to free up more spectrum for wireless broadband.
Digital Government
Changing minds on GSA
Steve Kelman surveys students before and after some education in leadership to learn whether the added insight can change opinions can shift on the GSA spending scandal.
Digital Government
Industry responds cautiously to IT reform act
Acquisition experts worry the measures proposed by Rep. Darrell Issa could produce more bureaucracy.
Digital Government
American troops arrive in Israel for defense drill
The exercise will cost the United States about $30 million.
Cybersecurity
The White House denies ordering a secret report clearing Huawei of espionage
Intelligence agencies and other departments conducted a largely classified inquiry, according to Reuters.
Emerging Tech
Claremont BioSolutions joins forces with In-Q-Tel
Company makes DNA extraction technology.
Cybersecurity
Industry, administration meet on cyber order
President Obama is expected to issue an executive order on cybersecurity, and an administration official met with an industry trade group to discuss it.
Digital Government
TechAmerica forecasts ‘anemic’ federal IT spending growth
IT spending is highly uncertain, industry-government partnership says.
People
GSA's innovation aspirations
GSA's acting administrator would like to see the agency develop a DARPA-like 'heart and soul of innovation,' but experts warn that it would require a high tolerance for risk and failure.
Digital Government
Bigger, better Google Ngrams: Brace yourself for the power of grammar
Updates to the online for tool for analyzing the history of language.
Emerging Tech
Twitter censors users for the first time
Following the request of local government, the company shut down an account run by neo-Nazis.
People