Digital Government
The Resume of the Future Will Tell Employers Who You Are, And Not Just What You’ve Done
Currently, Resumes force job seekers to contort their work and life history into corporately acceptable versions of their actual selves.
Artificial Intelligence
Why Agencies Should Be Tech Agnostic When Solving Problems
Don’t miss the forest for the trees, General Services Administration's emerging tech official said.
Cybersecurity
Social Security Numbers Are Unsafe and Outdated. So Why Do Americans Use Them?
The form of identification has become dangerously risky to use in the digital age.
Digital Government
IRS Says Online Tax Systems Are Back In Business
Agency teams worked through the night to restore services, the acting administrator said.
Cybersecurity
DHS Funds Tech to Root Out Malware in Government Mobile Apps
The tool, developed with Red Hat, is one of several the department is touting at the RSA Cybersecurity conference.
Digital Government
The Gatekeepers of the Government's Other Transaction Deals
Agencies don’t always know which companies have the bleeding-edge technology they seek. That’s where consortia come in.
Artificial Intelligence
Eric Schmidt Didn’t Know That Google Was Working the Pentagon's AI Project
The former chairman of Google was kept in the dark about the company’s outreach to the Defense Department — by design, he says.
Emerging Tech
Fuzzy Space Law Is Forcing the U.S. to Update its Orbital Regulations
There soon could be an "Office of Space Commerce.”
Modernization
Defense Official: Cloud Adoption Would Look Very Different Without DISA
Cloud adoption throughout the Defense Department would be far more decentralized without DISA, according to the agency’s cloud chief.
Emerging Tech
U.S. Army Figures Out How To Do Facial Recognition in the Dark
New method uses machine learning to extrapolate features from thermal images.
Digital Government
GAO, Census differ on IT readiness
Uncertainty over the impact the addition of the citizenship question and IT systems' readiness dominated a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing intended to discuss the Census Bureau's fiscal year 2019 budget.
Digital Government
9 agencies seek TMF funds
Nine agencies have submitted plans to tap the first $100 million available via the Technology Modernization Fund, but no decisions have been made yet.
Digital Government
FOIA advisers push for more proactive disclosure
A federal advisory committee wants agencies build Freedom of Information Act responsiveness into acquisition and tech plans.
Digital Government
GSA chief says citizen services will be a focal point in FY2019
IT modernization funds and real estate questions also featured prominently at an April 17 hearing on the General Services Administration's appropriation.
Acquisition
Striking a blow for agile with DOD weapons systems
If the Defense Department truly embraces agile, Steve Kelman argues, it would be a critical and much-needed tipping point for government innovation.
Cybersecurity
Taxpayers Get Extra Day To File After IRS Online Tools Go Down
The IRS extended Tax Day to midnight April 18 after unidentified outages took down key online tools Tuesday.
Emerging Tech
White House: 5 Percent of Government Jobs Could Be ‘Automated Entirely’
The Office of Personnel Management will look at how to retrain the employees affected.
Cybersecurity