Emerging Tech
Google Maps Wants to Help Users Navigate During Natural Disasters
The app will offer crisis navigation warnings and provide detailed visual information about hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes.
Cybersecurity
IARPA wants old tech data
Intelligence community researchers want to put some data behind IT and other technologies' performance over the years to see how they might work out down the line.
Acquisition
Defense bill calls for DOD to fast-track certain software buys
A provision in the defense bill moving through the House of Representatives calls for the Pentagon to authorize a new fast track for software acquisition, with an eye to upgrading vulnerable weapons systems.
Ideas
Building a Better Infrastructure Through Agile Integration
Approaches taken over the past decade no longer fit the needs of agile development and hybrid cloud.
Digital Government
USDS budget cut forces focus on core capabilities
The White House tech team that was formed to save HealthCare.gov in 2014 is returning to its roots as a 911 squad for government tech.
Digital Government
FCW Insider: June 17
Top stories, quick hits and other updates from FCW's reporters and editors.
Digital Government
Your personal data is too public for agencies to verify
The widespread loss and theft of data on Americans has made a once popular form of remote identity proofing obsolete, and agencies need to start looking into other options.
Cybersecurity
Senators Question FBI’s Response to 2016 Russian Hack of Florida Election Tech
The lawmakers also want to know how the agency is working to ensure election officials can adequately report cyber threats in 2020.
Modernization
Agencies Leaning on Citizens to Drive Innovation, Research
The government is increasingly investing in prize competitions, crowdsourcing and other “citizen science” efforts to advance its research, according to the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Modernization
Airline IT Failures Happening With Alarming Frequency, Little Government Oversight
Airline IT failures cause problems "on par or worse" than severe weather outages, and they're happening a lot.
Emerging Tech
Feds Snooping in Travelers' Social Media Feeds is Not the Answer
New State Department rules give the government increased authority to review travelers' social feeds. Will it actually make us safer?
Acquisition
Agencies ramp up use of challenge competitions
White House and General Services Administration are tracking crowdsourcing along with technology challenges as paths to innovation.
Acquisition
More scrutiny of OTAs in defense bill
Lawmakers seek annual reporting requirements to get insight into how the Defense Department uses other transaction agreements.
Modernization
NDAA pushes DOD-VA cooperation on health record modernization
The $20 billion health record modernization efforts at the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are going to be joined a little more closely under an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.
Artificial Intelligence
Experts Propose Feds Use Sanctions and Cyberweapons to Fight Deepfakes
Both social media companies and the government must play a role in fighting back against hyper-realistic misinformation, experts told the House Intelligence Committee.
Ideas
How Federal Agencies Can Move Innovation Forward
There’s hard work ahead to truly capture the full potential of artificial intelligence.
Digital Government
FCW Insider: June 14
Top stories, quick hits and other updates from FCW's reporters and editors.
Emerging Tech