Modernization
The scary truth about modernization
Delaying efforts to update or replace old IT systems has serious implications for agencies’ ability to achieve their missions.
Modernization
Now Your iPhone Can Pester You to Buy Whatever You’re Standing Next to
iBeacon sends alerts to your home screen when you're standing near an Apple store or other hotspot.
Modernization
Microsoft pushes back against surveillance
The company plans to strengthen encryption of customer data and take a more active role in challenging efforts to collect information on users.
Modernization
Could state law curtail NSA’s massive Utah data center?
A coalition of anti-surveillance activists wants to use local utilities as leverage to halt data collection.
Modernization
A better way to get bottles through security
Los Alamos develops screening technology to identify dangerous liquids.
Modernization
Pentagon Disconnects iPhone, Android Security Service, Forcing a Return to BlackBerry for Some
The Defense Department's new mobile device management system isn’t yet ready to protect Apple or Android smartphones and tablets.
Digital Government
White House Declares Tentative Victory Over HealthCare.gov Woes
The site can now support 50,000 simultaneous users with response times under 1 second.
Emerging Tech
How an App Could Save the Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale
NOAA wants to make it easy for ships to avoid striking the mammals.
Modernization
Bidding Process Begins for Cancer-Curing Computer Clouds
National Cancer Institute pilot project will let researchers remotely analyze genomic data.
Modernization
Cash Is Dead. Are Credit Cards Next?
Tech start-ups across the country offer new ways for payment, which could make carrying credit cards a thing of the past.
Digital Government
Cloud-based Army Network Defense Needs Tweaks to Support Tactical Units
System needs to be 'combat responsive,' exercise shows.
Modernization
See Something Say Something Has Aided 2,000 Probes, But How Many Arrests?
Public data sets outlining counterterrorism results could help the program shake off a bad rep, advisers say.
Modernization
Social media: The next generation of archiving
Agencies have gotten into the habit of archiving email, but now they face the task of preserving another category of electronic documents: social media communications.
Modernization
GSA claims big savings from Networx
$678 million in 2013 savings were realized by consolidating purchases and leveraging federal buying power, the program's manager says.
Modernization
The Quest to Build an NSA-Proof Cloud
European leaders want to go head to head with Amazon and Google.
Modernization
A fundamental shift -- and a long-term proposition
It might take a generation for federal IT managers to fully digest the technological evolution of the past few years.
Modernization
Say 'Cheese' -- and Happy Birthday! -- to the International Space Station
App alerts citizens and astronauts to the best time for snapping a flyby photo.
Modernization
Supporters renew push for federal data center bill
A House bill designed to improve the energy efficiency of federal data centers could wind up as part of a bipartisan Senate energy measure.
Digital Government
DISA, Evidently, Has Enough Commercial Cloud for Now
Agency may whittle down cloud buy’s value.
Modernization