Ideas
Implant That Turns Thought Into Action Appears Safe in Trial
The implants could allow humans to control robotic arms, legs and and assortment of other future devices with the power of thought alone.
Ideas
Team Grabs Radio Signal from Most Distant Galaxy Yet
It's the equivalent of a look back nearly 9 billion years.
Acquisition
NDAA’s cloud cyber-testing provision marks another hefty DOD compliance lift, analyst says
Section 1553 of the fiscal 2023 defense authorization bill will require all DOD cloud contracts to include provisions that allow the department to access and test systems housing classified data.
Acquisition
OMB streamlines contracting officer training with certification update
The update marks the first change to the certification process since 2014
Cybersecurity
Monitoring and Funding Concerns Could Undermine DOD’s Secure Unclassified Network, IG Says
A report from DOD’s Office of Inspector General said that a lack of secure funding for the system places mission-critical activities “at risk of termination due to non-compliance with cybersecurity requirements.”
Cybersecurity
NIST Releases Potential Updates to Its Cybersecurity Framework
The National Institute of Standards and Technology wants to expand the cybersecurity guidance’s scope and foster more international collaboration, among other proposed changes.
Digital Government
Tech Gig Workers Love the Flexibility, Report Finds
As the government looks to fill tech positions, it could consider offering some of the benefits that workers like about freelancing, such as flexibility and remote work.
Ideas
Making risk work for you
Why cybersecurity risk management requires more than just threat mitigation.
People
The 2022 Federal 100
Meet the women and men being honored for their exceptional contributions to federal IT in 2021.
Ideas
2023: The Year of Modern Government
COMMENTARY | Governments will need to embrace a people-first approach in their modernization journeys.
Modernization
New HHS data strategy is coming in 'weeks,' CIO says
Data sharing within HHS and beyond the department are still sore spots, but the hope is that a new data strategy could help.
Ideas
Beyond Section 230: A Pair of Social Media Experts Describes how to Bring Transparency and Accountability to the Industry
Section 230 is again in lawmakers' crosshairs.
Emerging Tech
NASA, USGS Seek Info for Landsat Next Ground Station
The ground station will house mission control, the ground network and other capabilities to support Landsat Next.
Digital Government
Former Oversight Chair: Republicans Just Want to ‘Investigate and Destroy’
Former Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., decried the direction of her former committee and Republican priorities in the new Congress.
Ideas
NASA’s Busiest Year in Decades – An Astronomer Sums up the Dizzying Array of Missions in 2022
2022 was a giant step for NASA.
Cybersecurity
CISA hires Navy cyber expert to help oversee vulnerability management
The cybersecurity agency selected U.S. Fleet Cyber Command veteran Sandy Radesky to serve as its associate director of vulnerability management Wednesday.
Cybersecurity
CISA’s chief of technology strategy stepping down ‘much earlier’ than expected
Cyber expert Daniel Bardenstein said he was leaving his post at the nation’s cyber defense agency for “a unique opportunity.”
Acquisition
FDA falls short on IT contract management, watchdog finds
An audit of the agency's IT contract spend found that FDA officials failed to file acquisition information such as contract performance evaluations and competition efforts.
Digital Government
DARPA Wants a Plan to Stave Off Unknown Food Crises
Under the new Foundational Security for Food Systems project, researchers will look at identifying large-scale crop diseases before a catastrophic crop failure—even for pathogens of unknown origins.
Emerging Tech