Digital Government
Air Force mulls smartphone gaming app for new recruits
Request for information met with 'significant amount of interest.'
Digital Government
Working the crowd: How USAID leveraged free labor to map a loan program’s effectiveness
Data project provided key insights.
Digital Government
FedBizOpps contractor under FBI investigation
Symplicity allegedly snooped on competitors.
Digital Government
Feds divulge sensitive mapping data to head off Colorado wildfires
Officials grant state authorities access to information about critical infrastructure.
People
Sharing employees could ease agency cost pressure
A departing CHCO suggests ways to save money through creative workforce approaches.
Digital Government
Visiting Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim museum in Spain
A trip to deliver a lecture leads to cultural opportunities.
People
The Chenok era dawns at IBM center
Dan Chenok takes over the IBM Center for the Business of Government effective July 1.
Cybersecurity
DHS struggles with mobile device management
IG finds the agency's biggest challenge is ensuring the security of portable devices and information stored on them.
Digital Government
Health IT's small, but significant role in health reform
Industry experts say act can be dependent on health IT.
Digital Government
Rockefeller says he doesn't trust industry to regulate itself on privacy
Senator says he will continue to pursue the issue in the next Congress.
Modernization
How students scoop the Feds on online privacy violations
Google was secretly planting cookies on a vast number of iPhone browsers and college students found out the program.
Digital Government
United Technologies aided China's military helicopter, U.S. authorities say
Charges involve export of U.S.-origin military software for Chinese Z-10 helicopter.
Digital Government
The arguments for (and against) an Internet kill switch
Panel participants weigh the question of whether the government should be able to shut off Internet access inside the government.
Cybersecurity
Government at high risk of economic espionage
With cyber theft and other crime on the rise, agencies must get aggressive in defense, according to the GAO.
Digital Government
DHS tries to demystify continuous monitoring
Policy attempts to clarify the continuous monitoring concept, part of an effort to improve FISMA.
Modernization
IG finds unauthorized e-readers, thumb drives, GPS on Homeland Security networks
The department does not consistently encrypt sensitive data stored on mobile devices.
Digital Government
Defense wants ideas on how unmanned aircraft can take to U.S. skies safely
Department asks scientists about building a “sense-and-avoid” system.
Digital Government