Modernization

Shadow BYOD Runs Rampant at Federal Agencies

Many federal employees may be ignoring the rules around using personal devices for official work, according to a new poll.

Modernization

In search of virtualization

Responding to calls from Congress and the Pentagon, several Defense Department components are seeking better virtualization technologies.

Ideas

US Effort to Grab Data from Microsoft in Ireland Should Frighten All Firms Using the Cloud Overseas

A legal battle pitting Microsoft against the Justice Department raises fundamental questions that all CIOs should pay close attention to.

Modernization

A Digital Rat Brain Could Power Future Smartphones

Rather than a traditional computer, these computer chips are designed to work like neurons.

Modernization

ICANN handoff officially delayed

It will be at least another year before Internet domain naming and addressing functions are handed off to a global, multi-stakeholder body.

Modernization

Is the IRS thinking about a switch to off-the-shelf CRM?

A recent sources sought notice indicates the IRS might be looking to a commercial customer relationship management tool as a way to lower the cost of taxpayer contact.

Emerging Tech

QTS Sets Eyes on Federal Market with Carpathia Acquisition

The Kansas-based company, which already services many federal customers through 12 nationwide data centers, spent $326 million acquiring the cloud services provider.

Modernization

State Department Looks to Outfit Workers with 'the Most Contemporary' Mobile Devices

This is no small task considering the agency currently provides 36,000 mobile devices to its employees stationed in almost every country in the world.

Digital Government

How Phone Companies Used 'Supercookies' to Track Customers' Web Browsing

AT&T and Verizon continued tracking users' unencrypted traffic for months after backlash over the practice erupted in November 2014, researchers found.

Modernization

Video: Meet the Next Tech Entrepreneurs: Young Women

The Technovation Challenge hopes to equip girls with the skills to make it in the tech industry.

Cybersecurity

White House and India Consider Counterhack Measures in Foggy Bottom

Many U.S. cyber outfits see business opportunities in India where cyber theft is a growing problem.

Modernization

3 keys to building a federal DevOps culture

Government lags behind the private sector in breaking down the wall between the development and operations teams. Here's how agencies can close the gap.

Modernization

GSA plots Schedule 70 cyber assurance SIN

The latest special item number RFI follows on the addition earlier this year of a cloud SIN, and a proposed SIN for health IT.

Modernization

NRO opens up on R&D

A broad agency announcement presents an uncommon window into the secretive National Reconnaissance Office.

Modernization

What's the Most Commonly Used Mobile App for Governments Across the World?

About 47 percent of apps activated by government groups worldwide were related to document editing,

Modernization

Feds talk app stores

Mobility is just as much about apps as it is devices. But vetting and featuring good apps is still a challenge for federal agencies.

Emerging Tech

NASA Wants to Know if Open Innovation Challenges Are Working

The agency is looking for research on ways to crowdsource, such as through competitions.

Modernization

Computer Scientists Invented a Way to Turn Your Skin Into a Mobile Touch Pad

A new product called iSkin uses silicon rubber and pressure-sensitive sensors to create an elastic film.