Ideas
Seizing the Opportunity to Close the Cybersecurity Skills Gap
Here's how the public sector could get a leg up on competing for cybersecurity talent.
Emerging Tech
Inside the Bill That Set the ‘Strongest Clean Energy Requirement in the Nation’
Washington, D.C. is on track to set a more ambitious timeline for fighting climate change than any state.
Emerging Tech
FCC Approves Google's Motion Sensor Tech
Radar-based motion sensing gets a government thumbs up.
Cybersecurity
HHS releases cyber guides for healthcare orgs
The Department of Health and Human Services has rolled out new guidance to protect organizations in the health care sector from cyberattacks.
Emerging Tech
NASA Hits Its New Year’s Target at the Edge of the Solar System
As partygoers downed champagne, a spacecraft swept past a mysterious object 4 billion miles from Earth.
Digital Government
How Easy-to-Use Data Tools Unleash Employees
That’s what turns data analytics platforms into decision-making engines, a pair of government technology leaders said.
Digital Government
America, Meet Your (Acting) Secretary of Defense
With no military experience and just a year and a half in government, the former Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan has yet to develop a foreign-policy vision of his own.
Modernization
Is RPA ready for prime time?
After a year filled with robotic process automation pilots, agencies are focused on truly operationalizing in 2019.
People
Back to the future: Shutdowns and the next generation of feds
In 2013 during another shutdown, FCW took a look at how the prospect of furloughs and unpaid work were affecting the morale of students planning careers in the federal government.
Artificial Intelligence
The Boldest Predictions for Federal Technology in 2019
More cyber brinkmanship and super smart artificial intelligence are just a couple forecasts industry leaders divined for the coming year.
Digital Government
Seven Government Tech Bills that Died in Congress
Next session, lawmakers must decide whether to reintroduce legislation to strengthen the chief information officer, lock down network-connected devices, protect elections and more.
Cybersecurity
HHS Releases Voluntary Cybersecurity Practices for Health Industry
The guide stems from the Cybersecurity Act of 2015.
Digital Government
FCW Insider: Jan. 2
The latest news, analysis and other updates from FCW's reporters and editors.
Digital Government
House plans to pass funding bill that includes pay raise for feds
Democrats will vote on an appropriations package to reopen all the federal agencies shuttered during the partial shutdown, but the lack of wall funding will likely means the measure won't get a vote in the Senate.
Digital Government
Editor’s Favorites of 2018
As we say goodbye to 2018, Nextgov's executive editor revisits some of our most impactful and important stories from the previous year.
People
Trump nixes planned pay raise for feds
With shutdown talks at an impasse, the White House finalized plans to freeze federal pay at 2018 levels.
Digital Government
Days Into the Shutdown, the Costs Are Mounting
The mortgage payments, school tuition and utility bills will keep coming, even if paychecks are disrupted.
Ideas
How to Stop Hackers (Russian or Otherwise) from Hijacking Our Elections
A very promising innovation in the field of cryptography may hold the answer for bolstering election technology.
Digital Government