Modernization
Your Boss Is Reading Your Text Messages
As more employers add mobile messaging systems to workers’ phones, the scrutiny of workers’ SMS inbox is likely to increase.
Digital Government
DHS Ups Its Big Data Game, Asks Vendors What They've Got
The agency wants presentations on new products.
Digital Government
Vendors Flock to $450 Million DISA Commercial Cloud Buy
Amazon, defense contractors, and computer and telecom firms eye procurement.
Modernization
Amazon Sues Over CIA Cloud Deal
IBM successfully fought CIA’s award of the $150 million cloud and is intervening in the lawsuit.
Digital Government
White House Could Face Bipartisan Scorn if it Bucks IT Reform
The government will never get a fairer IT buying overhaul, a congressional technology leader warns.
Modernization
House subcommittee troubled over data center updates
Lawmakers criticize agencies for underestimating by several thousand the number of data centers involved in a consolidation initiative.
Modernization
NSA's New Spy Facilities Are Seven Times Bigger Than the Pentagon
The man and the story behind the National Security Agency's massive data centers.
Digital Government
White House Touts Nearly $1.4 Billion in IT Savings
The U.S. CIO expects to save $2.5 Billion by overhauling how agencies buy IT commodities.
Digital Government
FBI Data Center Efficiency Program the Way of the Future?
A pilot effort in West Virginia may become a model across the Justice Department.
Modernization
Army set to complete enterprise email migration
Army finishing transition that could save up to $380 million over the next few years.
Modernization
All the Important and Surprising Trends in Mobile Web Browsing, in Seven Charts
Adobe has just issued its report, State of Mobile Benchmark.
Modernization
OMB underestimates data center numbers
Agencies taking part in the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative have more than twice as many data centers as OMB once thought. OMB says better tracking and a broader definition account for the discrepancy.
Modernization
Amazon files court complaint over CIA cloud deal
The cloud provider is challenging the corrective action that GAO recommended to the CIA after upholding a bid protest.
Modernization
Federal Cloud Security Is Now Partially Privatized
The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation, rather than the government, will vet firms that want to inspect commercial data centers.
Modernization
Is There an App for Arms Control?
The State Department’s offering $10,000 to find out.
Modernization
Army Certifies Harris Tactical Handheld Radio
The move helps ensure competition for the $700 million multiservice radio buy.
Digital Government
NIH Bets Big Bucks on Big Data
The agency could spend nearly $100 million on complex data analysis in biomedical research.
Modernization
DISA Pushes Back $427 Million Hybrid Cloud Buy
Plans to run procurement next fiscal year.
Modernization
'Phantom Downloads' Are Apple’s Latest App Store Headache in China
The mysterious downloads may be the work of an app-promotion company that gained access to user accounts.
Modernization