Digital Government
Proposed Budget Deal Offers Stability for Federal IT
The plan may make it harder to recruit top tech talent, though.
Modernization
Secret Service Plans Android Purchase Despite Other Agencies' Troubles
The Samsung smartphones will facilitate communication in the field during crises, documents say.
Modernization
Phone Apps Help Government, Others Counter Violence Against Women
The military is considering an app to help reduce sexual assault on bases.
Modernization
Nuclear weapons facility upgrades resource management system
By using PeopleSoft, the Texas facility’s application could serve as a baseline for integration across the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Modernization
Obama wants agencies to push the Green Button
GSA, DOE and EPA are tasked with launching a pilot energy data exchange program at federal facilities within 120 days.
Modernization
Wheeler postpones spectrum auction until IT is tested
The disastrous launch of HealthCare.gov looms as an object lesson on proving technology before it is deployed.
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