Digital Government
U.S. sending drones to hunt Libyan attackers
CNN reports that the United States will send unmanned drones to Libya to look for jihadist camps, as the White House now accepts the belief that the Benghazi attack was the premeditated work of terrorists
People
GSA may lower some contract surcharges for agencies
With a surplus on hand in the GSA Schedules program, the time may be ripe for restructuring the fees, according to GSA's leader.
Modernization
Agile development: A case in point
A CIO who came to government from the private sector turns to agile development to solve some thorny IT problems at DHS.
People
Tangherlini to centralize GSA's IT, people management
GSA's CIO could gain considerable new influence under restructuring plan, acting administrator tells Senate panel.
Digital Government
Obama administration pushes to extend electronic surveillance law
Fate of legislation hangs in Senate.
Digital Government
U.S. missile defense strategy is flawed, panel finds
Council calls for domestic defenses to be bolstered.
Cybersecurity
Senate unlikely to revisit cybersecurity bill before election, Lieberman says
Efforts to pass the legislation before recess broke down.
People
Research just proves the obvious? Not so fast.
Academic research is full of surprises, Steve Kelman maintains, even though many people believe it only shows what's already obvious.
People
Will feds get a pay raise?
President Barack Obama suggested a pay raise for federal employees, but it's conditional on lawmakers working together.
Emerging Tech
Why pilots can use iPads and you can't
The FAA has given American Airlines pilots permission to use iPads during all phases of flight
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.
Digital Government
GoDaddy outage briefly took down FedBizOpps, three other GSA sites
GSA didn’t directly contract with GoDaddy, spokesman says.
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