Modernization
The House Oversight IT Subcommittee is Dead
The panel’s responsibilities—which include oversight of FITARA and other federal tech initiatives—will be swept up by the Government Operations subcommittee.
Cybersecurity
Feds, union chief arrested protesting shutdown on Capitol Hill
While lawmakers and the White House traded barbs and remained deadlocked, protesting feds and supporters flooded a Senate office building.
Artificial Intelligence
National Intelligence Strategy Warns of Technological Threats to U.S.
Disruptive technologies will democratize capabilities previously available only to nation-states with plenty of resources.
Digital Government
The Wheels of Justice Are Grinding to a Halt
FBI agents say the government shutdown is costing them confidential sources, postponing indictments, and shutting down investigations.
Acquisition
Education reboots multibillion procurement after lawsuit
The government is looking to modernize and streamline the technology it uses for the processing and servicing of the $1.4 trillion loan portfolio guaranteed by the Education Department's Federal Student Aid office -– but it's taking a while.
Digital Government
The 2020 Census Is Still in Big Trouble
The Supreme Court may decide the fate of the citizenship question that the Trump administration wants to add to the census, and cities are bracing for chaos.
Cybersecurity
How Social Security Administration Plans to Protect Your Identity
The agency is looking for ways to identify citizens with random characters instead of Social Security numbers on agency mail.
Ideas
How to Build a Better Great Wall
The idea of creating a robust, intelligent technology barrier as opposed to a static physical one has been floated before.
Modernization
What's driving federal IT in 2019?
Disruptive technologies, customer experience, security are coming to the fore in the federal IT landscape.
Digital Government
FCW Insider: Jan. 23
The latest news, quick hits and other updates from FCW's reporters and editors.
Cybersecurity
Senators to WMATA: How Will You Keep Next-Gen Metro Cars Safe from Foreign Tampering?
Four D.C.-area lawmakers are asking WMATA leaders to take supply chain and cybersecurity issues into account when buying the next series of Metro cars.
Digital Government
Trump’s New Science Adviser Arrived Just in Time for a Shutdown
Science advocacy groups take turns imploring leaders to open agencies.
Modernization
Library of Congress Needs Volunteers to Digitize Its Records
Vendors would work for free, but they’d essentially gain exclusive rights to the materials for up to three years.
Acquisition
Acquisition frozen at DHS due to the shutdown
The Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that the government shutdown, now over a month old, is hampering the ability of the agency to respond to contract solicitations.
People
House Dems shutter IT panel
The IT Subcommittee of the Oversight and Reform committee is being folded into Government Operations under Rep. Gerry Connolly.
Artificial Intelligence
Former Google Chief to Chair Government Artificial Intelligence Advisory Group
Eric Schmidt will join 14 other tech experts on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.
Modernization
Latest Bills to End Shutdown Include $25 Million Bump to Technology Modernization Fund
Previous spending packages didn’t allocate any additional money for the revolving fund.
Cybersecurity
DHS issues emergency directive to counter DNS hijacking campaign
The Department of Homeland Security's Jan. 22 warning applied to nearly all federal agencies and requires rapid action to mitigate Domain Name System compromises that have impacted " multiple executive branch agency domains."
Digital Government