Cybersecurity

Facial recognition technology creates privacy headaches for agencies

As some federal agencies embrace the facial recognition tools, others raise the privacy flag.

People

NASA boldly goes to the open-source frontier

NASA launches a new website to foster collaboration on open-source projects.

People

Leave fed pay and benefits alone, union says

Feds have sacrificed enough, union says.

Digital Government

FCC names new senior staffers

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Cybersecurity

Defense technology to grow despite Pentagon budget cuts

Cyberspace, space and science research to get funding boost.

Ideas

CIO.gov Goes Down

Cybersecurity

Top Ten Cybersecurity Stories of 2011

Digital Government

Federal Coach: Leadership the US Marshals way

Stacia A. Hylton, director of the U.S. Marshals Service, says that leading people through the crisis requires steadiness, strength and compassion.

Cybersecurity

Virtual worlds training for federal cyber pros in the works

A joint effort between DHS and State will offer courses in a virtual worlds environment for federal cybersecurity professionals.

Digital Government

OPM Must Create a Federal Intern Database

Digital Government

Obama campaign joins hipster photo site Instagram

In a single day, the Barack Obama campaign picked up more than 18,000 followers on the Instagram photo-sharing online service.

Acquisition

New rule corrects contracting misunderstandings

New rules address time-and-materials contracts, require publication of contractors' work histories and attack abuses of interagency contracts.

Cybersecurity

Coast Guard to end Deepwater program

The Coast Guard's decade-old Deepwater acquisition program is over, but the difficult experience taught important lessons, officials say.