Cybersecurity
Contractors Are Now Using Encrypted Calls and Texts for Legal Advice
To protect information, intellectual property lawyers are encouraging secure attorney-client correspondence.
Modernization
Think Google Glass Invades Your Privacy? Here’s a Wristband that Records Audio 24 Hours a Day
Audio-recording device, Kapture, will go live on Kickstarter next month.
Modernization
DHS seeks to bridge siloed databases
A plan to connect databases containing information on legal foreign visitors is the first step in what could turn into comprehensive records overhaul.
Modernization
Software-Defined Networks: Lots of optimism, less knowledge
Agency IT managers have great expectations, survey suggests, but limited understanding of how SDNs actually work.
Emerging Tech
Why We Should Build a National Internet System Under the National Highway System
The connectivity of the entire United States is still lacking.
Modernization
Navy's New Mobile App Will Include Links for Suicidal Troops, Sex Crime Victims
The software application will include news stories, videos, photos and helpful links.
Cybersecurity
Postal Service Taps Canadian Firm To Test Viability of a Single Online ID
The contract with SecureKey aims to help agencies rely on third-party ID verifiers.
Modernization
FirstNet readies spending plan
The board of the federal agency charged with managing the development of a nationwide wireless emergency communications network has approved an almost $200 million spending plan for the project in 2014 and appointed a White House budget official to manage it.
Modernization
And Finally, the 3D Fax Machine—but Why Would You Want One?
The all-in-one desktop 3D printer, scanner, copier, and fax machine will hit Kickstarter soon.
Modernization
Can We Trust Google With the Stratosphere?
Project Loon is Google's plan to bring Internet to places that don't have it. It's also Google's plan to put its unmanned aerial vehicles all over the globe.
Modernization
USPS picks vendor for cloud-based ID management hub
The federal government’s first major pilot program for cloud-based identity management now has a vendor, and it's Canadian.
Digital Government
DISA Plans To Tap Seven to 10 Vendors for Commercial Cloud Buy
Officials nixed the use of offshore storage.
Modernization
Amazon rips GAO, IBM in lawsuit over CIA cloud deal
Suit claims IBM protest was "meritless;" IBM counters with its "long history of delivering successful transformational projects."
Modernization
Is there an IT-acquisition generation gap?
GSA's Mark Day warns that disconnects could complicate already-difficult IT challenges.
Modernization
Making Prison Phone Calls Cheaper: Why It Matters
A conversation with Mignon Clyburn, acting chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission
Digital Government
Ignore Those Rumors: The White House Doesn’t Oppose IT Reform, Lawmaker says
The U.S. CIO and other officials are more supportive of reform than it might appear, according to Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va.
Cybersecurity
Coast Guard Aviators Shop for a Course-Plotting iPad App
To avoid a cockpit computer hijacking, USCG should require the software be made-in-America, security experts warn.
Modernization
Interior Cloud Storage Contract Could Be Worth $10 Billion
The contract was awarded in May after a lengthy bid dispute.
Modernization
Interior making big moves to the cloud
The Interior Department is making a big push to the cloud in the midst of transforming its IT capabilities by awarding 10 contracts valued at as much as $10 billion over the next decade.
Modernization