Digital Government
Love Him or Hate Him, Darrell Issa Changed Government Technology
The man behind some of the government's most important tech efforts in recent decades announced his retirement.
Emerging Tech
National Forecasts Get Supercomputing Boost
Following the worst weather year ever, the federal government is investing heavily in supercomputing to improve forecasting.
Ideas
Meltdown and Spectre Complicate Government’s Cybersecurity Posture
The potential footprint makes 2014’s Heartbleed look like an op-forces training exercise.
Policy
5 Tech Issues Congress Wants GAO to Keep an Eye On
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee provided five new directives to the Government Accountability Office related to ensuring the government maximizes its tech investments.
Modernization
The Customs System That Clogged Airports In January Isn’t Fixed, IG Says
The agency doesn't have a backup system in place if another outage happens, the watchdog said.
Ideas
How the New Science of Vulnerability Management Can Help Struggling Federal Networks
IT teams often have the tools to find network vulnerabilities. What they don't have is the manpower to fix them all.
Ideas
How Can Agencies Prepare for the Software Future?
Federal agencies and their IT teams must adapt from a hardware-centric model to an increasingly software-defined world.
Policy
Lawmakers to Agencies on FITARA: Get It Together
A House oversight committee pushed IT leaders to set more ambitious upgrade goals after its fifth assessment of federal agencies’ technology.
Ideas
How Technology Can Help Mitigate Hurricane Harvey-Like Disasters
Well-placed backup and recovery systems can help keep government systems running.
Modernization
GAO to Agencies: Get a Data Center Plan
A handful of agencies are doing the bulk of the government's consolidation and that's a problem, GAO said.
Modernization
GAO: Optimize Data Centers or Lose Them
Progress on closing data centers is mixed and the government’s optimization efforts are worse.
Digital Government
Pentagon Tech Chief Says He'll 'Take the Hit' for GAO Criticism of JIE
“What we’ve tried to tell GAO is, in this case, you don’t measure JIE—you have to measure the components,” Terry Halvorsen said.
Modernization