Digital Government
OPM Wants to Make it Easier to Hire for Tech Jobs
Officials will solicit info from agencies on a potential governmentwide direct hire authority for STEM and cybersecurity posts.
Emerging Tech
GSA Wants to Help Your Agency Cash in on the Technology Modernization Fund
An upcoming workshop will teach feds how best to pitch projects to a board of administration officials.
Policy
Senate Defense Bill Aims to Scrub Cyber Adversaries from U.S. Military Tech
The bill would require companies to disclose if they’d shared source code with foreign governments.
Modernization
Veterans IT Office Wants Support Through Transformation Process
The offices focused on the department’s IT infrastructure are looking for support services to help manage through a reorganization.
Modernization
After two rounds of comments, the Pentagon's long-awaited cloud solitication hits the street
The Department of Defense is adhering to a self-imposed deadline to get its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure acquisition out by the end of May, with an eye to a September award that could hit $10B.
Artificial Intelligence
This Startup’s Racial-Profiling Algorithm Shows AI Can Be Dangerous Way Before Any Robot Apocalypse
The new algorithm which promises to accurately look at images of people and determine their ethnic background.
Cybersecurity
DHS issues new directive to protect high-value assets
The Binding Operational Directive announced May 25 is designed to bring a "more focused, integrated approach" to protecting federal systems from cyber attacks.
Cybersecurity
US-CERT Explains How to Keep Your Home Network Secure
Yes, your home network could be targeted.
Emerging Tech
Is Bitcoin Being Manipulated by Traders? The U.S. Government Has Opened a Criminal Probe
The probe will look for evidence of practices like spoofing and wash trading.
Ideas
How to Connect Cyber Investment to Outcomes
When security pros talk to executives, they need to be ready to show how their investments benefit the business.
Modernization
GSA prods agencies to get on $50B telecom contract
While acknowledging that "change is hard," officials in charge of the $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions need agencies to forge ahead with telecom transition.
Modernization
DOD CIO says there can't be one cloud to rule them all
Dana Deasy told Congress at a FITARA hearing that when it comes to cloud, "there is no such thing as one solution."
Modernization
OAI looks to build permanence before it disappears
The Office of American Innovation is set to expire at the end of the Trump administration, but one key official sees its effect enduring at the agency level.
Cybersecurity
Investigators Slam NASA for Numerous IT and Cybersecurity Shortcomings
The agency has only made modest progress on longstanding issues.
Cybersecurity
GSA Wants to Modernize How the Government Buys Cybersecurity Services
The agency wants to update its slate of “highly adaptive cybersecurity services.”
Policy
Huawei, ZTE Get the Boot in House-Passed Defense Bill
The bill gives federal agencies until 2021 to scrub the Chinese telecoms from their networks.
Emerging Tech
NOAA’s Newest Weather Satellite Isn’t Working Right
The satellite's “premiere” instrument gets too hot at night and engineers are struggling to find out why.
Cybersecurity
Report: Hundreds of Android Phones Had Malware Preinstalled
The devices are compromised right out of the box.
Digital Government
House passes defense spending bill with fourth-estate cuts
The $717 billion 2019 National Defense Authorization Act sailed through the House.
Modernization