Modernization
FCC Gives IBM Green Light to Operate New Cloud Services
FCC’s work with IBM plays an integral role in the agency’s modernization effort.
Modernization
Want digital services tips? Watch Singapore
The Southeast Asian city-state's government may have cracked the code for providing the services citizens actually want online: listen, don't force.
Modernization
Pentagon Moves Ahead with Plan Allowing Personnel to Access Classified Info from Mobile Devices
The new mobile classified capability is one piece of the Pentagon’s Joint Information Environment plan.
Modernization
House passes check on Internet transition, multiple DHS measures
In addition to demanding review of any change to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, legislators pushed for IT consolidation, improved communications and other reforms for DHS component agencies.
Emerging Tech
Life-Saving 'Undo Send' Feature Now Official Part of Gmail
One of the most life-saving software tweaks ever invented.
Modernization
Feds Urged to Investigate Uber’s Plan to Track Users
Privacy group wants FTC to step in to block changes to Uber’s privacy policy.
Emerging Tech
Video: Getting a More Tactile Virtual Reality Experience
This is what the new Oculus Touch and Rift feel like.
Ideas
4 Top Challenges for Federal CIOs
Cybersecurity, data management and culture remain roadblocks for agency CIOs.
Emerging Tech
How Agencies Use Data To Understand How Humans Interact With the Environment
Officials in some agencies are thinking about harvesting data from the Internet of Things to help citizens.
Ideas
6 Reasons Your Agency Needs an App Store
Does your agency have an enterprise app store? If not, then consider these six benefits to adoption.
Modernization
AT&T Faces $100 Million Fine in FCC's First-Ever Net-Neutrality Case
The wireless carrier, which is also fighting FTC charges, limits "unlimited" data.
Modernization
DISA looks to fine-tune JRSS software
Pentagon CIO Terry Halvorsen says software is one of the missing pieces of the Joint Regional Security Stacks puzzle. DISA says it is getting closer to solving that puzzle.
Modernization
FedRAMP: Red tape or silver bullet?
Federal tech leaders are torn on how FedRAMP could help or hinder the monumental shift to commercial cloud.
Modernization
Back-end of HealthCare.gov remains in development
HHS internal watchdog recommends automated IT for advance payments under the health care law.
Modernization
Government lags in point-of-contact satisfaction
Use of agency websites as the preferred avenue of citizen contact with government nearly doubled in just two years, says a new study.
Digital Government
DISA Plans to Cut Redundant Tech in 2015-2020
In its strategic plan, DISA states its intent to take advantage of commercially available cloud technology, among other efforts.
Modernization
Tight budgets can fuel innovation, say top IT leaders
Fiscal necessity is the mother of invention in federal IT.
Modernization
NSF grants, an EIS workshop and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Emerging Tech