Cybersecurity
Executive order could institute controversial cybersecurity measures
A rumored order would allegedly implement parts of a bill that stalled in Congress this year.
Digital Government
Bing vs. Google blind showdown: Closer than you'd think
Bing asks Internet searchers to compare Google and Bing in their "Bing It On Challenge"
Modernization
Collaboration: The key to solving common management problems
A white paper details strategies to solve two common challenges for federal managers.
Digital Government
American Systems to buy SAIC test and evaluation unit
Mounting budget pressures are likely to spur more acquisitions, spinoffs.
Digital Government
How Google builds its maps—and what it means for the future of everything
An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps.
Cybersecurity
Found in translation: How one person unites a leadership team
An agency's business leaders speak a different language than its technology heads, but to accomplish the agency's mission goals they must communicate. At the intersection of these contentious constituents there is often one person providing translation.
Modernization
FCC set to take up incentive auction, spectrum holding proposals
The FCC is aiming to finalize the order by mid-2013 and hold its first auctions in 2014.
Digital Government
Obama's sequestration report delayed
The administration says it needs more time to figure out the details on across-the-board budget cuts set to take effect in January, but the report itself expected to contain few surprises.
Modernization
Obama, Romney in hashtag battle on Twitter
The Obama campaign has purchased its first Promoted Trend on Twitter and Romney's camp has countered.
Modernization
Do agencies know where they're going in the cloud?
New study reveals that federal agency respondents are moving to the cloud, but without detailed migration strategies.
Acquisition
Council steps up importance of contractor performance in proposed rule change
Regulators want to change the rules for documenting contractor past performance, with an eye in particular to the treatment of subcontractors.
Emerging Tech
Democratic lawmakers praise Internet freedom platform
Democratic lawmakers are praising language in their newly approved party platform that calls for protections for an open and free Internet.
Digital Government
Conference costs draw congressional ire
GSA's conference scandal was just the start. Now a dozen agencies are being asked to defend their spending on conferences.
Modernization
Is open government open enough?
Federal agencies have released mountains of data since 2009. Now the push is to encourage broader use of all that data -- and to create real value and impact.
Digital Government
Now’s the time for federal innovation, CIO says
Budget, cyber and citizen pressure will spark creativity, VanRoekel predicts.
Emerging Tech
Feds embrace ‘nerds of the Internet’
From mapping to archives, agencies look to crowdsourcing.
Cybersecurity
BYOD security monitoring is not the norm
Study finds 62 percent of federal security pros lack systems for tracking government data on personal smartphones.
Digital Government
Pentagon adds 66 countries to list for possible drone sales
Policy change still subject to approval from Congress, State Department.
Digital Government
Defense contractor settles for $1.15M in bid allegation
Prosecutors claimed Paragon Dynamics stole Raytheon proposal information.
Digital Government