Modernization

Don't Have Unlimited Data? You Might Want to Turn Off This New iOS9 App

Beware of a new feature called "Wi-Fi Assist".

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The shifting IT shopping lists

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

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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.

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'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.

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If the Intelligence Community Can Do Cloud, Why Can’t The Rest of Government?

Many agencies today are still using cloud computing similar to 2010, one official says.

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UN Peacekeeping Needs Major Technological Update

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

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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.

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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.

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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,

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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.

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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.

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Connecting the cyber and the physical

NIST is looking for feedback on its evolving framework for systems that connect the real world and the computer world.

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Massive Security Breach Hits Apple’s App Store in China

Chinese users who download some of the nation’s most popular apps could find their personal information extracted by hackers, security experts say.

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Papal security shines spotlight on information sharing

DHS set up Multi-Agency Communications Centers to coordinate the security work of dozens of agencies.

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Moving Beyond Pre-Season in Federal Cloud

It is time to revisit spending nearly all funding on legacy environments, and truly appreciate and benefit from the innovation and value that moving to the cloud can bring.

Digital Government

5 Tech Projects from HHS' Accelerator Demo Day

One is a mobile app that would help FDA researchers inspect fresh meat for bacteria at local grocery stores.