Digital Government

Amelia Earhart search gets help from State Department's tech tools

Amelia Earhart's story has become legend, and now new technologies may finally enable a search team to locate her crash site, which has remained a mystery since 1937.

Acquisition

Fix DOD's regulatory complexities, panel recommends

Lawmakers wants a simpler acquisition process that helps defense employees and doesn't intimidate potential contractors.

People

GOP budget plan gets thumbs-up from House panel

Plan includes extending federal pay freeze, reducing workforce.

Cybersecurity

Hacktivists snatch 100 million records in 2011

Cyber activists pocketed more confidential data than scammers seeking money last year, according to law enforcement reports compiled by Verizon.

Digital Government

Five Things Aspiring CIOs Need to Know

It seems straightforward enough. Work hard, rack up achievements. Move steadily upward. Enjoy the view from the corner office. As many information technology leaders have learned, things are never quite so simple.

Digital Government

On the road to digital FOIA processing, agencies take separate paths

At House hearing, departments discuss separate plans to improve electronic FOIA response.

Modernization

White House might finally go wireless

The president and his staff lack the basic Wi-Fi setups common to many American households, and DISA wants to change that.

Digital Government

More HIT in Doctors' ABCs?

Modernization

Government IT success hinges on evolution, GSA leaders say

IT leaders are under new pressure to innovate, show the results of their work.

Digital Government

Time's best Twitter list: The Onion, Yoko Ono and ... US Census?

Several federal officials and agencies made the cut for a prestigious--albeit idiosyncratic--list of best Twitter feeds of the year.

Digital Government

Army launches app store prototype

New marketplace has small number of apps for now, more to come.

Cybersecurity

Billions in FEMA grants still unspent

Congressional hearing probes the reasons why state and local governments aren't spending the federal money they've been given.