Modernization
In-Q-Tel Invests Fresh Funds to Ditch Desktops
The venture capital firm for the 17 agencies that comprise the IC joined Bain Capital Ventures and Microsoft Ventures in making a $16 million investment in San Mateo-based Frame.
Modernization
Launching His New Company, Even the Man Who Built Android Doesn’t Think He Can Beat Android
This is what smartphone nerds have been waiting for.
Modernization
Windstream drops EIS protest
The company withdraws its pre-award protest of GSA's massive telecommunications contract, paving the way for an agency award.
Modernization
One Way to Hide Your Data from Digital Border Searches
A popular password manager unveiled a feature to temporarily remove data from devices.
Modernization
Distracted Drivers May Actually Benefit From Using Tech While Driving
What we really need is technology that holds us accountable for our driving behaviors and encourages us to focus on the road, not our phones.
Modernization
Moran pushes MGT in the Senate
The MGT Act's Republican sponsor discusses the bill's prospects for passage.
Ideas
How to Spot Problems Before You Start Moving to the Cloud
Simply knowing these challenges exist is half the battle of solving any potential migration problems.
Digital Government
How Apple Watches Could Detect a Stroke
The watch currently has a basic heart rate sensor to monitor a wearer's pulse during exercise, but what if it could do more?
Modernization
Signal Jammers Stymie First Responders, and DHS Wants It To Stop
Though they're banned in the U.S., illegally imported jammers could delay emergency responders.
Modernization
Senate looks to tackle overseas data access
The Senate is exploring options to resolve conflicts when U.S. law enforcement has a warrant for electronic data that a U.S. provider is storing overseas and the host country has laws preventing the disclosure of the data.
Modernization
MGT's Senate sponsors push committee to act
The appropriators supporting an IT modernization bill are urging a key authorizing committee to vote up the bill and send it to the Senate floor.
Ideas
What If We Stored Our Data in Space?
A space-based cloud storage network could protect sensitive data from the outside world and looming data security regulations.
Modernization
GSA chief: Central IT fund is a start, not a remedy
While President Trump's budget proposal includes a $228 million investment for a general IT modernization fund, the head of the agency overseeing the fund sees the initial investment as more of a proof of concept than a panacea.
Digital Government
The Bumps, Cuts and Zeros in Trump’s Tech Budget
Federal IT sees an overall boost in spending, but many research programs take a hit.
Modernization
Buy vs. build to reduce insider threats
Commercially supported open source comes with both cost and security benefits.
Modernization