Emerging Tech

Americans Love Technology—but They Want Their Privacy Back

A new poll shows people have mixed feelings about the growing reliance on digital data in daily life.

Modernization

DHS seeks smarter smart cards

An RFI for personal identity verification card technology and integration follows a summer of cybersecurity concerns and PIV testing across the federal government.

Ideas

The 9-Point Federal Plan to Kill Cyberattacks with Mobile

In 2016, more government agencies will be using advanced strategies to thwart cyberattacks with a focus on mobile strategies.

Modernization

The shifting IT shopping lists

A survey of buyers of government IT found surprising trends in the solutions being sought.

Modernization

Will protecting Wi-Fi crowd out innovation?

Industry is pushing back against the prospect of spectrum restrictions as the age-old tradeoff – stability or innovation – looms with mobile connectivity.

Modernization

'The Internet of Other People’s Things'

During an impassioned National Telecommunications and Information Administration meeting, lawyers and stakeholders slogged away at a drone-flying guide.

Modernization

UN Peacekeeping Needs Major Technological Update

For peacekeepers to be effective, they need up-to-date tech at their disposal.

Modernization

EIS RFP might spill into October

GSA says it will set the fees agencies pay to use the telecom contracting vehicle “significantly” lower than originally planned.

Cybersecurity

Tax Collectors Want 'Selfies' to Prove You Are Who You Say You Are

States receive federal funds to verify the smartphone self-portraits of citizens, as a means of preventing refund fraud.

Modernization

This Classroom in a Suitcase Puts 40 Kids Online via Virtually Unbreakable Tablets

A hard plastic suitcase is being marketed as the thing to transform education in Africa.

Modernization

DISA looking for info on cloud-based military email

An RFI outlines the parameters for moving the Pentagon's unclassified email system to the cloud.

Artificial Intelligence

DHS Wants Boeing to Test a Brain Chip in Firm’s Self-Destructing 'Black' Spyphone

The secret sauce of the mobile device is a so-called neuromorphic computer chip that imitates human learning,

Modernization

Pentagon to Industry: How Should We Do Cloud-Based Email for 1.6 Million Employees?

The Pentagon’s next-generation unclassified email system may exist entirely in the cloud.

Modernization

Four years on, Army common operating environment takes shape

Army IT personnel are using code to integrate C2 nodes into a common architecture that is the backbone of the sensor computing part of the COE.