Emerging Tech
What Do HHS Employees Really Think? Agency Will Pay Data Miners to Find Out
HHS wants a contractor to monitor internal social network to glean employee sentiments.
Modernization
Analysis: Go Ahead, Mess With Texas Instruments
Why educational technologies should be more like graphing calculators and less like iPads. An Object Lesson.
Digital Government
Will Social Media Get Obama Off the Hook on Syria?
U.S. intel report relies heavily on messages from the public and on videos to overcome America's credibility problem.
Modernization
Learning to Live with Terrible New Twitter: A Two Step Program
If users want to continue tweeting, they're going to have to learn to live with the service's new features.
Digital Government
The NSA Pays Some American Companies for Network Access
Companies who provide the agency access to their communications networks are often paid for their trouble.
Modernization
9th vendor gets FedRAMP approval
Certification affirms company's cloud offerings meet security standards for federal agencies.
Modernization
As ID management pilot takes shape, early agencies hop aboard
Just days after the USPS awarded a contract for a cloud-based identity management pilot program several other agencies have joined it.
Modernization
Amazon's other secret cloud win
AWS is not one of the prime contractors an an Interior Department project, but will partner with half of the 10 awardees.
Modernization
Company Says State Dept. Bought Inferior Radios for Embassy Emergency Networks
Relm Wireless blasts the department, saying it was predisposed to award the contract to Kenwood of Japan
Digital Government
Everything That’s Wrong With Microsoft, as Told by Veterans Who Abandoned the Company
It’s possible, even likely, that Microsoft is about to enter the darkest period in the firm’s history.
Modernization
JIE's murky progress raising questions
Complex systems, unclear timelines compound challenges for Pentagon's shared operational network.
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