Ideas
Dear agency senior executive: You can make or break your next big tech initiative
You may have heard that modern principles can help you reduce risk on projects like yours, but changing the way you work isn't easy.
Cybersecurity
CISA Builds Out Effort to Influence Global Policy With London Attaché
The office will inform other efforts to come as the agency grows its international presence.
Cybersecurity
NIST Selects 12 Companies for Implementing Post-Quantum Cryptography
Officials leading a standardization effort—based on four winning algorithms—are relying heavily on industry for success.
Cybersecurity
CISA’s first international office set to open later this month in London
CISA’s planned international attaché office will help promote the agency’s first-ever global strategy announced last year.
Policy
Congress wrangles with DHS over biometric system delays and oversight
The Department of Homeland Security says that part of its new biometric system will launch this year, but lawmakers still want an independent analysis of the project.
Modernization
VA Senior Staffers 'Failed' to Provide Accurate Data on EHR Training, Watchdog Finds
An OIG investigation found that change management leaders’ lack of due diligence impeded assessment of the electronic health record system training process.
Digital Government
EEOC: Women still lag far behind men in the government’s STEM workforce
A new report from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission digs into women in the government’s STEM workforce, showing gaps in overall participation, leadership and pay.
Digital Government
A Look At Tech Amendments In The 2023 House NDAA
The bill, which boasted several hundred amendments, has provisions that touch on cyber education, spectrum, and satellites.
Policy
Digital ID bill sees action in the House and Senate
A bill from Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) and its Senate companion would raise the federal government's profile in the digital ID ecosystem.
Policy
Lawmakers Ask Energy, EPA to Investigate Cryptomining’s Environmental Impact
As Congress looks to regulate the industry, cryptomining companies say renewable energy is already in play.
Acquisition
Bipartisan group seeks to limit who federal agencies can contract with
Organizations involved with certain adversarial nations creates conflicts of interest, the senators say.
Cybersecurity
FTC explains 'reasonable' cybersecurity
From risk-based management to staying up-to-date about known vulnerabilities and their patches, the Federal Trade Commission is detailing key steps companies can take to avoid getting hit with a data security complaint.
Ideas
Uncle Sam Isn't a Trustworthy Dude: So What is America To Do?
Americans’ trust in government is a quarter of what it was in the 1960s.
Digital Government
To Search for Alien Life, Astronomers Will Look for Clues in the Atmospheres of Distant Planets – and the James Webb Space Telescope Just Proved it’s Possible to do so
NASA's newest telescope is giving scientists another tool to study exoplanets.
Digital Government
Routing Gap in VA Health Software Led to Patient Harm, Watchdog Says
An oversight report claims a confusing routing process in the new electronic health record system being fielded by the Department of Veterans Affairs contributed to nearly 150 adverse patient events.
Ideas
No, Submitting Junk Data to Period Tracking Apps Won’t Protect Reproductive Privacy
Reproductive privacy is not guaranteed.
Emerging Tech
Webb Proves a Remarkable Technological Successor to Hubble
The first pictures NASA released from the James Webb Space Telescope demonstrate—in brilliant color—the advancements made in the technology.
Defense
Army’s new plan to ‘transform’ soldier healthcare with tech
Service leaders will boost research into synthetic blood, quantum computing, and more.
Modernization