Digital Government
Google Maps Wants to Help You Navigate During Natural Disasters
The app will offer crisis navigation warnings and provide detailed visual information about hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes.
Emerging Tech
Border Patrol Wants Robots that Can Go Underground and Report Back
Homeland Security is looking for innovative robots that can navigate underground tunnels and communicate with headquarters.
Digital Government
House Pushes Forward on Spending Packages That Would Boost Hiring, Block Trump-Backed Reforms
Lawmakers are still negotiating with the White House on overall spending caps.
Acquisition
COMET hits the street
The General Services Administration issued its solicitation for the contract that will support Federal Acquisition Service IT.
Digital Government
U.S. geospatial data could flow to China via drones
Experts and public officials warned lawmakers at a Senate hearing of the risks in China's increasing dominance in low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles.
Modernization
DHS to Move Biometric Data on Hundreds of Millions of People to Amazon Cloud
The department seeks a new platform to identify people using fingerprints, irises and faces, and eventually DNA, palm prints, scars and tattoos.
Acquisition
Report cites dramatic uptick in government spending on temps
Veterans Affairs, Defense Health Agency are filling gaps with temporary workers rather than hiring career staff.
Cybersecurity
Chinese Drone Manufacturers Pose Huawei-Like Threats, Expert Says
Officials allege the Chinese government is using native drone companies to collect “an unprecedented level” of intelligence on the U.S.
Modernization
Tick tock: NARA's electronic records management deadline is approaching
While agencies have largely passed previous deadlines, this could be the most difficult mandate to date.
Digital Government
FCW Insider: June 19
Top stories, quick hits and other updates from FCW's reporters and editors.
Digital Government
Shanahan Out; Army Secretary Esper to Be Acting Defense Secretary
President Trump tweeted the news after reports that the FBI was looking into a violent domestic dispute from nine years ago.
Cybersecurity
Cyber Weaknesses That Led to Breaches at NASA’s JPL Persist, Says IG
The federally-funded research center is at the forefront of space exploration but continues to struggle with some basic cybersecurity practices.
Cybersecurity
Defense budget fight coming, Ernst says
The defense top-line budget will be a point of contention between the Republican-led Senate and Democrat-led House as they resolve their differences with the 2020 defense authorization bill, a leading lawmaker said on Tuesday.
Cybersecurity
House set to vote on surveillance restrictions
An amendment introduced by Reps. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) would further limit the government's use of foreign surveillance laws to search and use the digital communications of U.S. citizens and residents.
Artificial Intelligence
Government Seeks Input on Reboot of Nation's Strategic Computing Objectives
When technology progresses quickly, the strategies behind it may need to as well.
Podcasts
Critical Update: Peering Into the Agriculture Department’s Digital Transformation
One of the Agriculture Department’s top officials talks about how the agency is using technology to serve its customers better.
Emerging Tech
Inside the Growing Problem of Space Debris
Technology alone may not be enough to address it.
People
Shanahan out as Pentagon chief; Army Secretary Esper takes over top job
In a tweet, President Donald Trump announced that acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan was resigning and withdrawing his name from consideration to hold the top Pentagon job on an acting basis. Trump announced that Army Secretary Mark Esper is taking over as acting defense secretary.
Acquisition