Emerging Tech

NASA awards $137.3 million in Space Launch System contracts

ATK Launch Systems, Northrop Grumman and Dynetics nab the deals.

  • By Dawn Lim
Digital Government

Texas paper chronicles veterans' drug overdose deaths

Autopsy reports and other records expose a hidden pattern of early deaths.

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Pentagon shuffles DISA senior executive decks

Agency gets a new CIO.

  • By Bob Brewin
Emerging Tech

Exploring the world's shortest domain names

Inside the web universe of two-letter names.

  • By Quartz
People

DISA picks new CIO

David Bennett to succeed Henry Sienkiewicz as IT head at DISA.

  • By Amber Corrin, FCW
People

DISA appoints new CIO

David Bennett succeeds Henry Sienkiewicz as DISA CIO.

  • By Amber Corrin, FCW
Modernization

The most common iPhone 5 glitches and their fixes

Minor problems have cropped up as people have begun to use Apple's latest phone.

  • By Rebecca Greenfield, The Wire
Digital Government

Sandia's 'MegaDroid' connects 300,000 virtual mobile devices

Research project aims to develop tools to bolster security for smartphone networks.

  • By Camille Tuutti, FCW
People

VA cracks down on conference spending

The Veterans Administration has set new rules intended to prevent a repeat of the conference spending probe that culminated in its top human resources officer's resignation.

  • By Matthew Weigelt, FCW
Cybersecurity

Sandia scientists build experimental Android playground with 300,000 devices

Goal is to study how hackers can disrupt smartphone networks.

  • By Dawn Lim
Digital Government

FDA goes after online pill pushers

While Internet suppliers have the potential to revolutionize access to medications, currently, these online companies are potentially unsafe or illegal 97 percent of the time.

  • By Lindsay Abrams, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

Here's what the space around Earth sounds like

One of NASA's newest missions has recorded the radio waves coming from our magnetosphere.

  • By Rebecca J. Rosen, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

DHS and academic researchers build a better shoe bomb . . . detector

Northeastern University obtains $1.1 million grant to outfit CT scans with tools for recognizing explosives triggers.

  • By Aliya Sternstein
Digital Government

What Facebook is learning from your offline purchasing data

The social network's partnership with Datalogix is changing the way it advertises.

  • By Rebecca Greenfield, The Wire
Modernization

GSA stands by cloud migration numbers

Despite recent criticism from the agency's inspector general, GSA officials believe their estimates of savings from a cloud migration are on target.

  • By Matthew Weigelt, FCW
Digital Government

Tuesday Roundup: Budget talks, energy data, new FOIA site and a White House cyberattack

A summary of the day's headlines.

  • By FCW Staff, FCW
Modernization

Forward with the dialogue on agile development

Steve Kelman considers and responds to ongoing discussions about agile software development.

  • By FCW
Digital Government

DISA CIO

None

  • By Amber Corrin, FCW
Emerging Tech

Military scientists devise surveillance malware to track surroundings in 3D

Tool could hide within seemingly harmless camera app.

  • By Dawn Lim
Cybersecurity

Is DHS ready to take the lead on cybersecurity?

As cybersecurity legislation languishes in Congress and the president mulls an executive order, critical infrastructure remains under-secured and disputes over leadership linger, according to a panel of experts.

  • By Amber Corrin, FCW
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