Modernization

Now Your Phone Can Help Cure Cancer

Harness your smartphone's incredible processing power to help conduct scientific research.

Modernization

White House team seeks answers on agency spectrum management

The move is the latest in the administration’s effort to free up spectrum for use in wireless broadband to meet the growing demand for data-intensive mobile services.

Cybersecurity

U.S. Spied on More Than 300,000 AT&T Customers in 2013

Like Verizon, the telecom titan received far more requests for customer data than Internet companies did.

Modernization

Survey highlights differences in IT preparedness

In a recent survey, 94 percent of state and local IT professionals said their agencies were not prepared for the coming IT challenges.

Modernization

Senators Want to Help You Kill Your iPhone

A new bill would require smart phones to come equipped with a “kill switch” owners could flip if their phone is lost or stolen.

Modernization

IP switch could threaten FAA systems, says integrator

Harris Corp. has warned that hacking is much less difficult in IP and wireless environments than with hardwired systems, which could prove problematic for air traffic control.

Modernization

Adult Literacy Program May Move to a Public Cloud

The suite of adult learning websites is currently housed in a private cloud.

Modernization

How to Outfox a Broken Procurement System and Other Digital Government Lessons from the U.K.

Agencies could learn a great deal from Mike Bracken, director of the United Kingdom’s Government Digital Service.

Modernization

Veterans Affairs seeks solutions to its storage problem

Department wants vendor input on storage-on-demand options.

Modernization

Cloud brokers: Stretching the benefits beyond IT

Brokers are becoming an integral part of helping the public sector realize the full benefits of cloud technology.

Modernization

Air Force looks to shared services for help with IT acquisition

The Air Force is increasingly handling its IT purchasing problems by partnering with other Pentagon agencies and the private sector.

Modernization

Does CBP’s Tombe expect too much from the cloud?

Readers challenged the Customs and Border Protection CTO’s assertion that 99.999 percent reliability should not cost extra.

Modernization

2 questions to ask before diving into infrastructure-as-a-service

Well-designed IaaS deployments can allow failures to happen without the customer and their users noticing.

Modernization

That Fake iPhone Is Probably Full of Lead

Knockoff mobile devices have 'alarmingly high proportions of hazardous substances,' report finds.

Digital Government

Obama's Changes to Phone Metadata Collection Gets Nod From Secret Intelligence Court

NSA will have to go before a judge and present evidence before collecting the data.