Digital Government
Despite the Glitches, Shoppers Can’t Quit Amazon
The company’s website continually crashed during its much-touted Prime Day event, but sales were still higher than ever.
Ideas
How Regulators Are Dealing with Antitrust Laws and Data Privacy
When people turn over data to "pay" for Facebook's services, are they getting a good deal?
Artificial Intelligence
Pentagon Plans to Publish Broad Artificial Intelligence Strategy ‘Within Weeks’
The report will focus on long-term plans and how it will funnel resources to developing the technology, a Defense official said.
Emerging Tech
Walmart Patents Tech That Could Monitor You As You Check Out
Price check? Walmart already knows.
Modernization
GSA Official: Next-Gen Telecom Contract Is An Opportunity For Transformation
Agencies should think of the move to the Enterprise Infrastructure Services contract as more than a transition.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon Wants to Move Some Cyber Defense Operations to the Cloud
The Defense Department’s considering a cloud extension of its Acropolis system, which it describes as “where we fight” in cyberspace.
Podcasts
Critical Update: Rep. Will Hurd Explains Why Everyone Should Care About Government Tech
For episode 5, Nextgov goes to Capitol Hill to talk with one of the most persistent voices on federal IT management and reform.
Digital Government
Is Congress expanding its knowledge to meet oversight demands?
Another Hill hearing on social media shows members and staff struggling to keep pace with the knowledge required to do oversight on technology topics.
Modernization
Dam cyber: Interior IG closes out audit of hydroelectric control systems
In a follow-up to a June report, auditors did not discover additional vulnerabilities in the Interior Department's management of five hydroelectric dams.
Digital Government
A New Study Compared Formal And Informal Communication at Work, And the Results Are No Fun
Meetings have been replaced with Slack chats, and memos with texts.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity, AI strategies coming from DOD
The Defense Department's acting deputy CIO for cybersecurity said to expect cyber and artificial intelligence strategies in the coming weeks.
Emerging Tech
SpaceX And Boeing Are Running Out of Time to Fly Astronauts Into Space
It's a safety issue.
Cybersecurity
If Your Weapons Aren’t Cyber-Hardened, Expect to Lose Pentagon Contracts
The Pentagon intends to start assessing its weapons’ resistance to hacks, instead of leaving that to manufacturers.
Modernization
Still no extension on EIS
GSA is still considering an extension on its 2020 deadline for federal agencies to move to the $50 billion next-generation telecommunications contract.
Digital Government
Is the federal tech community fed up with Trump?
After the president's provocative appearance with Russia's Vladimir Putin, Steve Kelman finds that some measured, establishment IT leaders are speaking out.
Emerging Tech
The Pentagon Wants to Bring Mind-Controlled Tech To Troops
The Defense Department’s research arm is working on a project that connects human operators’ brains to the systems they’re controlling—and vice versa.
Digital Government
There Are Two Types of Respect. Lack One, And You’ll Hate Your Job
This isn’t just a millennial, “special snowflake” phenomenon.
Artificial Intelligence
Google Is Using AI to See Inside the Brain Like Never Before
New data might help neuroscientists better understand the structure of the brain.
Cybersecurity