Digital Government
FCW Insider: Oct. 11
Top stories, quick hits and more from FCW's reporters and editors.
Modernization
Agencies pivot as EIS focuses on modernization
The $50 billion governmentwide telecommunications contract Enterprise Infrastructure Services began life as a like-for-like upgrade under the Obama administration, and agencies are playing catch-up as the White House looks to use the vehicle as a modernization tool.
Modernization
Pentagon, VA Leaders Commit to Boosting Accountability in Health Record Overhaul
Both secretaries pledged to re-examine the multibillion-dollar program’s organization structure and timelines.
People
Weichert: Workforce issues stall IT modernization, data progress
Now acting head of the Office of Personnel Management, Margaret Weichert laid out her priorities for the workforce and the commercialization of federal data.
Modernization
IBM protests JEDI cloud deal
As the deadline to submit bids on the Pentagon's $10 billion, 10-year warfighter cloud deal draws near, IBM announced a legal protest.
Artificial Intelligence
DHS Employees Form Grassroots Community of Interest Around Artificial Intelligence
After a well-attended kickoff meeting this summer, the budding AI community of interest is looking at how best to grow.
Modernization
IBM Files Bid Protest Against Pentagon’s JEDI Contract
IBM becomes the second company to file a pre-award bid protest against the Pentagon’s multibillion cloud contract.
Modernization
Army rethinks network design
Leaders of the Army's Network Cross-Functional Team highlighted a two-year plan to design a new integrated tactical network through experiment and rapid prototyping.
Artificial Intelligence
Alexa, Should We Trust You?
The voice revolution has only just begun. Today, Alexa is a humble servant. Very soon, she could be much more—a teacher, a therapist, a confidant, an informant.
People
Shanahan touts Army Futures Command
Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan implored all of DOD to "remove obstacles" from the path of Army's new modernization command, Futures Command.
Cybersecurity
The Newest Password Technology Is Making Your Phone Easier for Police to Search
For the first time, police have compelled a suspect to unlock his phone using Face ID. The case reveals an interesting inversion: More advanced password technology is less protected from police seizure.
Cybersecurity
Cyber Researchers Propose a ‘Smart’ Social Security Card
Instead of ditching the SSN as an identifier, the government could take steps to modernize it.
Digital Government
A government contractor crosses over to USDS
Steve Kelman reports on what prompted Kelly O'Connor to take an rather unusual career turn.
Ideas
Want Safer Internet of Things? Change Government Buying Rules.
Federal agencies could shape the security of connected devices by using the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
Cybersecurity
Voting Experts: Why the Heck Are People Still Voting Online?
At least 100,000 online ballots—including the votes of overseas military personnel—were cast in 2016.
Digital Government
FCW Insider: Oct. 10
Top stories, quick hits and more from FCW's reporters and editors.
Cybersecurity
GAO: Vulnerabilities Plague 'Entire Generation' of U.S. Weapons Systems
Defense officials were often unaware of vulnerabilities and didn’t notice they were being exploited.
Emerging Tech