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

Identity management heads for the cloud

The Federal Cloud Credential Exchange should simplify online credentialing of citizens, but systems that authenticate agency employees might be tougher.

Modernization

America’s Most Profitable Company Per Employee Makes Your Phone Work—and it’s Not Apple

InterDigital has developed many of the technologies critical to our wireless world.

Cybersecurity

DHS Awards Contractors $6 Billion for Agency Network Surveillance

Booz Allen Hamilton and 16 others earn spots on the continuous monitoring project.

Modernization

Analysis: BlackBerry Is Where Motorola Once Was, and Has No Choice but To Sell

The company has been backed into a corner by its losses.

Modernization

DHS talent management getting cloud consolidation

The Department of Homeland Security is ramping up a cloud make-over for its enterprise talent management system.

Modernization

A New App Takes Government Contracting Mobile

Hōrd allows vendors to get alerts about opportunities and to track their competitors.

Modernization

DISA plans analytic cloud; looks to NSA's model

DISA's planned 'Acropolis' cloud environment will provide situational cybersecurity awareness, data analysis to detect threats.

Modernization

Prepare for the Coming Deluge of Digital Currencies—and Meet the People Who Would Control Them

Watch out for Litecoin, the silver to Bitcoin's gold.

Modernization

City of London Halts Recycling Bins Tracking Phones of Passers-By

The tracking technology sparked an outcry of privacy concerns.

Modernization

Finding new ways to manage in a virtual desktop world

Virtual desktops have gone from an interesting idea to a technology agencies embrace in increasingly large deployments. To move to virtual machines, however, requires a fresh look at security, standardization and the skills of your IT employees.