Modernization
Next Agency to Host GSA Centers of Excellence Will Be Announced by October, Departing TTS Director Says
Outgoing Technology Transformation Service Director Joanne Collins Smee shares the strengths of her organization, what’s next for Agriculture’s Centers of Excellence and when the effort will jump to a new agency.
Acquisition
Budget uncertainty is routine. What makes 2018 different?
Continuing resolutions and funding uncertainty have been the "new normal" for years, but experts at the Professional Services Council say that this year presents new challenges.
Modernization
DHS ramps up supply chain security efforts
A new DHS study looks to light the way to actionable supply chain security solutions for telecommunications infrastructure.
Emerging Tech
NASA Is Running a 3D Printing Competition to Design Homes on Mars
The idea is to send a robot to Mars to autonomously print a habitat for the arrival of astronauts.
Digital Government
McCaskill sounds alarms over proposed IG budget cuts
The ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security committee is calling foul on budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration to a number of inspector general offices throughout the federal government.
Artificial Intelligence
Tomorrow’s Intelligent Malware Will Attack When It Sees Your Face
IBM researchers have injected viruses with neural nets, making them stealthier and precisely targetable.
Digital Government
When government websites fail
The FCC’s site went down last year not because of a DDoS attack, but because it couldn’t handle the traffic spike. So who’s responsible for making sure that doesn’t happen?
Cybersecurity
Airport biometric tech advances under CBP
Ongoing tests of an entry/exit verification system based on facial recognition technology are proceeding at U.S. airports.
Digital Government
How to Persuade Your Company’s Product Team to Build Something
Communicating with engineers, designers and data scientists doesn't have to be difficult.
Artificial Intelligence
Tomorrow’s Intelligent Malware Will Attack When It Sees Your Face
IBM researchers have injected viruses with neural nets, making them stealthier and precisely targetable.
Digital Government
Here’s How to Actually Stop Google From Tracking Your Location
The search giant can be thwarted.
Emerging Tech
DARPA Wants to Make Underground Maps on the Fly
The agency is challenging teams to build systems that chart caves, tunnels and underground urban infrastructure.
Digital Government
USDA Wants One Hub to Connect Agency Leaders to Every Employee
The agency wants to pull disparate intranets together and allow two-way communications with employees.
Digital Government
Omarosa’s Recordings Show the Problem with Honor-System Security
The White House relies on employees to turn over any devices prior to entering a secured room but has few fail-safes if they don’t.
Modernization
DISA seeks metrics for cloud SLAs
An interagency working group is putting together a catalog of service level agreement metrics that all federal agencies could use for commercial cloud contracts.
Emerging Tech
How to Ace Your Chatbot Interview
Your next interview will begin with the ping of an incoming text message.
Acquisition
Census grapples with IT and (now) paper challenges
In addition to questions over systems readiness and cybersecurity, the first-ever online census is now working to straighten out issues on the paper-based side of the decennial population count -- all against a ticking clock.
Cybersecurity
