Cybersecurity
Commerce Expands Restrictions on Huawei
The department's Bureau of Industry and Security added another 38 Huawei affiliates to its Entity List.
Digital Government
HUD Must Improve Data Collection Methods to Ensure Accurate Homelessness Count, Audit Says
Estimates of the homeless population are likely undercounts.
Cybersecurity
Number of Foreign Companies Within Defense Supply Chain Grew Over Past Decade, Report Says
Reliance on foreign suppliers in the defense industrial base rose—notably in packaged software and IT services—even as calls for reshoring increase, according to a new report.
People
How DOD is updating its online education systems
As the pandemic increases the need for online learning, the Defense Department's chief management officer pushes change.
Modernization
U.S. imposes new restrictions on Huawei, semiconductor industry
The Department of Commerce is tightening rules targeting the Chinese telecom's supply chain around computer processing chips and restricting sales of chips made with U.S. technology.
Artificial Intelligence
The Pentagon’s AI Factory Gets a Powerful New Tool
The Joint Common Foundation aims to help the Department to standardize and secure its data and make it easier to find.
Modernization
IARPA pursues advanced radio eavesdropping defenses
The intelligence community's research arm wants to use smart radio tech to find elusive signals might signal efforts to tap remote transmissions.
Digital Government
FCW Insider: Aug. 17
The latest news and analysis from FCW's reporters and editors.
Ideas
Political Trolls Adapt, Create Material to Deceive and Confuse the Public
What they posted shifted over time.
Digital Government
HHS CIO resigns
Jose Arrieta will depart as the top tech official at the Department of Health and Human Services in the coming weeks.
Ideas
4 Tips to Help Kids to Cope with COVID-19 Anxiety
As children go through this crisis, they don’t have to be afraid.
Digital Government
Stereotypes in Language May Shape Bias Against Women in STEM
The language we speak strongly predicts implicit gender associations.
Policy
CBP Shifts to Enterprise Approach to Manage Phone Searches at U.S. Borders
The agency uses metadata to create a system of record for electronic device searches but agents may be able to access information irrelevant to their cases.
Digital Government
Don’t Catch Fire When Using Hand Sanitizer, a Defense Safety Office Warns
Germ-fighting gels are flammable—and some people have already been burned.
Acquisition
Extend Section 3610 of the CARES Act
Without an extension to the legislation that compensates federal contractors unable to work because of pandemic-related facility closures, more people would lose their jobs, more companies could fold and the government could lose access to highly experienced and skilled members of their workforce who are critical to supporting national security, defense and other federal mission areas.
Ideas
Wearable Fitness Devices Deliver Early Warning of Possible COVID-19 Infection
Several studies are testing algorithms that assess data from wearable devices to detect COVID-19.
Modernization
DHS gets mixed reviews on IT modernization
The agency is seeing uneven results on two of its most important efforts, cloud migration and data center consolidation, according to a new agency watchdog report.
Artificial Intelligence
How Agencies Can Tackle Tech Talent Gaps
Strong brands and room for risk might pay off where government salaries don’t, federal officials said.
Cybersecurity