Modernization

GSA goes with IBM cloud to improve acquisition services

The contract will support GSA Global Supply, and draw on IBM's "end-to-end capability."

Modernization

10 steps toward FedRAMP compliance

After June 2014, agencies can use only cloud service providers that are FedRAMP-compliant. Here's what CSPs must do to get there.

Digital Government

New Technology Lets Doctors Watch Patients From Afar

Sensors gather a wealth of data for large-scale analysis.

Modernization

Broadcasters Protest New Cloud-Based TV Recording Service

If the Supreme Court hears the case, the implications could be far reaching.

Modernization

How to reuse, repurpose and recycle IT

The Defense Department is learning that older hardware, no longer able to perform its original functions and destined for the scrap heap, can often be put to another use.

Modernization

Google Grants Itself the Right to Use Your Name and Photo in Its Online Ads

The Internet giant gets a little creepier.

Digital Government

Who's to Blame When IT Systems Fail?

Lawmakers want to simplify lines of responsibility by redefining the role of federal chief information officers.

Emerging Tech

Get Ready For Data-Driven Romance

Or: How we’ll learn to stop worrying and let computers take the lead.

Modernization

IBM seeks stay on court's ruling over CIA contract

IBM wants to ensure AWS's latest triumph in the battle to build the CIA's cloud platform is short-lived.

Modernization

Website Connects Drunk People With Random Lawmakers

Want a solution to the government shutdown? Try drunk dialing Congress.

Modernization

NSA's $1.5 billion data center delayed

Unexplained power surges force postponement of planned opening.

Modernization

Supercomputing upgrade to improve big data at Postal Service

USPS has awarded a contract to expand the agency's already formidable high-powered computing capabilities.

Modernization

Obama Official Tweets Racial Slur, Apologizes

Dan Pfeiffer quickly deleted it and apologized for a 'horrendous typo.'

Modernization

Amazon Prevails in CIA Cloud Suit

IBM, which argued Amazon unfairly won the cloud contract, plans to appeal.

Modernization

AWS can resume CIA cloud project

Although IBM plans to appeal a judge's ruling, Amazon Web Services is ready to go back to work.

Modernization

Judge rules for Amazon Web Services over IBM in CIA cloud case

Court overturns GAO's decision on bid protest; IBM says it will appeal.

Digital Government

Obamacare Software Failures Confirmed

Healthcare.gov gets coding touch-ups after bugs and glitches in its first week.