Modernization
SAM, the cloud, and the new environment
Cloud computing presents new challenges to software asset management, so SAM strategies should be adapted to fit the nature of individual agency networks.
Modernization
CIA-backed Cloud Security Firm Buys Encryption Company to Help Spy-Wary Industry
To address corporate concerns about storing information at data centers accessible by intelligence agencies, HyTrust acquires HighCloud.
Digital Government
Agencies Could Save Nearly $6 Billion From IT Consolidation
The savings estimate from a government auditor is more than double the White House’s figure.
Digital Government
Senate Bill Would Make Data Center Consolidation the Law
Legislation would require annual reports on agencies' consolidation plans and progress.
Modernization
Automated collision prevention: On the way or out of reach?
Technology that would enable vehicles to avoid impending crashes has moved into the real-world test stage, but creation of the massive wireless communications network required to make such a system work remains a major roadblock.
Digital Government
Obama Calls for IT Procurement Reform
Purchasing changes must come after health care website is fixed, he says.
Modernization
FCC Eyes New Spectrum for Wi-Fi-Type Service
Sat phone company has tested the service with Amazon lab.
Modernization
Primary instrument ready for GOES-R installation
The Advanced Baseline Imager is the new NOAA satellite's primary instrument for scanning the planet’s weather, oceans and environment.
Modernization
GSA consolidates data centers, IT ops
The agency plans to centralize its regional IT operations under CIO Casey Coleman.
Modernization
Pentagon Directs Defensewide Use of Army’s Mental Health Data Portal
The government owns the source code for the $900,000 system.
Cybersecurity
NSA Hacked Google and Yahoo's Private Networks
The agency accessed fiber optic connections between servers, Snowden documents show.
Modernization
Google Could Be Sending Its Data Out to Sea
Nerdy names and a patent suggest barges spotted off the U.S. coasts belong to the tech giant.
Modernization
Feds should formalize architecture, chief architect says
Every agency has an enterprise architecture, and Scott Bernard believes some attention to those strategic plans could improve the government's ability to share services between agencies.
Modernization
Michael G. Meskill: Taking USDA to the cloud
Thanks to Meskill, the Agriculture Department has joined the ranks of cloud service providers.
Digital Government
How Did the White House Find Its Twitter Mole?
The same way leakers are always surfaced – with misinformation.
Modernization
Obamacare Data Hub Apparently Works Well, Mitigating Security Fears
The tool is critical for verifying applicants' identities and incomes.
Modernization
Is tax-filing delay tied to HealthCare.gov problems?
House Ways and Means chairman asks why IRS employees were excepted from the shutdown to work on the health care site, but not to test key tax systems.
Modernization
Army's technology test-bed event facing changes
NIE start date delayed, as Army officials mull changes in focus and frequency going forward.
Modernization