Cybersecurity

GoDaddy says outage was no hack

This is the first time GoDaddy has given any information at all about what happened

Modernization

The ever increasing iPhone sales expectations

The previous edition in the iSeries sold more than a million in the first 24 hours.

Emerging Tech

Video: Marine Corps brings back the cavalry with DARPA's 'robot horse'

The Legged Squad Support System is intended to act like a pack mule and think like a trained animal.

Emerging Tech

Swabbing and hoping: How NASA keeps germs from colonizing Mars

The agency tries to keep humans from inadvertently populating other planets.

Modernization

How candidates are selling the hashtag election

The 2012 party conventions were a kind of coming-out party for Twitter as a political advertising platform.

Digital Government

Commission leaders call for emergency communications network

The attacks revealed the problems posed by a patchwork of emergency radio networks and devices that often do not work with each other.

Modernization

Feds reject counterterrorism reporting apps over privacy, security concerns

Some states, meanwhile, offer citizens smartphone tools for alerting authorities to suspicious behavior.

People

NIH makes leadership adjustments at technology acquisition center

IT contracting program director takes on a new role.

Cybersecurity

One person is claiming credit for GoDaddy's massive outage

The site's DNS servers had been disabled as a result of this large-scale hack.

Modernization

How the iPhone 5 could help re-elect Obama

Economists estimate the new phone, which Apple will release soon, could add between a quarter and a half of a percentage point to the country's GDP.

Digital Government

A continental network to monitor how we're trashing the environment

The National Ecological Observatory Network will feature dozens of monitoring stations to document land use patterns and ecosystem changes.

Acquisition

Administration amps up strategic sourcing push

Concerned that agencies are slow to adopt strategic sourcing approaches, administration officials are turning up the heat -- and hinting that a mandate may be coming.

Cybersecurity

House targets cybersecurity, transparency in 2013 continuing resolution

An expected spending agreement would keep the government functioning, add some funding for high-priority programs.

Cybersecurity

Federal IT workforce needs training investment, expert says

Technology aids the workforce, but the government's IT security personnel need investments in training and development opportunities to truly thrive.

Cybersecurity

9/11 haunts debate over cybersecurity

Some doubt whether a cyberattack could cause the same loss of life and physical destruction.

Digital Government

Al Qaeda’s No. 2 in Yemen killed in airstrike

U.S. drone is believed to be behind the killing, officials said.