Modernization
GAO Wants To Know The Best Way To Buy a Modernization Strategy
The agency plans to upgrade its content management and delivery systems, as well as its talent management tools. But first, it needs to decide on the best way to buy a modernization strategy.
Digital Government
VA embraces gaming as therapy for injured vets
The VA plans to offer gaming as an alternative form of therapy and to improve socialization for veterans with limited mobility through a partnership with Microsoft.
Cybersecurity
New Tech Aims to Tell Pilots When Their Plane Has Been Hacked
Raytheon is pitching a product to detect cyber intrusions into aircraft, drones and even missiles.
Artificial Intelligence
Energy to Launch $5.5M Artificial Intelligence Research Center
Researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and the Georgia Institute of Technology will join forces to address AI challenges through co-design.
Modernization
DEOS cloud set for a do-over
After a protest, the General Services Administration and the Defense Information Systems Agency are planning to take another look at their $7.6 billion cloud award.
Cybersecurity
NIST looking for partners to secure energy IoT
The agency is looking for new methods for secure connected devices in the U.S. energy industrial sector, from sensors attached to machinery and vehicles to insecure devices that help transmit data from distribution control systems.
Modernization
GSA to Take Corrective Action on DEOS Cloud Contract
The General Services Administration will rework the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions contract to address a bid protest.
Acquisition
NASA's big contract vehicle lowers fee
In the wake of a flush spending season, Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement cuts agency customers a better deal.
Digital Government
FCW Insider: Oct. 7
The latest news and analysis from FCW's reporters and editors.
People
OPM gets cranking on workforce orders
After a judicial injunction was lifted, the Office of Personnel Management ordered agencies to resume plans to fully implement new workforce policies contained in three controversial executive orders.
Cybersecurity
DOJ Makes Another Plea for Encryption Backdoors
While officials have long framed end-to-end encryption as an impediment to fighting terrorism, the department is now focusing on its impacts on child sex abuse.
Emerging Tech
FAA Certifies UPS to Operate Nation’s First Drone-Delivery Airline
The company’s subsidiary will expand its unmanned aircraft operation to transport potentially life-saving medical supplies.
Modernization
US, UK reach CLOUD Act agreement
The agreement will cover a "broad class" of crimes and investigations, including a promise not to target each other's residents and assurances that exchanges are compatible with data protection laws.
Modernization
TSA’s Cloud Future Will Be A Hybrid of Agency-Approved Services
The agency released its Cloud Strategy 2.0, which calls for a mix of public and private cloud, but only from vendors pre-cleared by TSA.
Emerging Tech
The Future of the Marines Is Smaller, More Robotic, More Naval
The new Commandant of the Marine Corps lays out a vision for high-tech force that will often operate like special forces.
Emerging Tech
Air Force CXO: We Don’t Have to Delight the User
Colt Whittall, the Air Force’s first chief experience officer, talks with Nextgov about the new role and what it will take to provide a better user experience for airmen.
Modernization
Two more big agencies issue EIS task orders
The Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service both signed off on EIS contracts last month.
Cybersecurity
The Hidden Dangers in Your Phone Number
Using your phone as an authenticator can be a problem.
Cybersecurity