Modernization

Army to pay $500M for Future Combat Systems termination

A dozen years after Future Combat Systems was born and three years after it was canceled, the program still bears a hefty price tag.

Modernization

The intangible foundation of the digital strategy

One technology empowers the White House's digital strategy.

Modernization

Clouds don’t need real-time threat reporting tools to win federal stamp of approval

Providers slated to gain certifications to deliver Web-based services governmentwide by Dec. 31.

Modernization

Cloud vendors: Forget continuous threat monitoring

The government drops a security measure it had planned to require of cloud vendors.

Modernization

Can the government outsource solutions to its problems?

Technology is enabling a new kind of collaboration, and now the government is looking to institutionalize the approach to solve serious problems.

Modernization

What startups can teach agencies about IT

Take some tips for IT success from the upstarts, advises HHS official.

Modernization

GAO, OMB chart IT reform progress differently

GAO warns the Obama administration that it risks losing momentum in its IT reforms by declaring work completed too early.

Modernization

Tight budgets should not stall innovation, VanRoekel says

The public sector may have unique challenges but it could learn a thing or two from the industry.

Modernization

Labor accused of scrubbing website of recent rulemaking documentation

Did the Labor Department move too quickly to remove online documents related to a controversial rule aimed at protecting child farm workers from heavy machinery?

Modernization

170,000 military dating-site users exposed, hackers say

An affiliate of the LulzSec hacker group is claiming it obtained and published personally-identifiable information for 170,000 military personnel.

Modernization

USCIS launches first online form

US Citizenship and Immigration Services claimed an important milestone in their transformation initiative to a digital agency with the debut of the agency's first online form.

Modernization

GPO teams with Barnes & Noble to deliver e-books

Government books come to Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader.

Modernization

Shared services poised to reshape the federal market

Industry should brace for impact as the government adopts more shared services, CIO warns.

Modernization

GSA goes big with big data

USASpending.gov provides data sets and tools.

Cybersecurity

Phone hacking problems? Defense, intel agencies have an app for that

A download is letting soldiers and secret agents abroad make calls on popular smartphones and skirt eavesdropping adversaries.