Digital Government
Turn your smart phone into a microscope
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is pushing out its mobile phone microscope tech to the public.
Modernization
Collaboration tools: Making location moot
As agencies deal with travel restrictions and increasingly complex work teams, the technology options for bringing employees together are keeping pace.
Digital Government
Battling bacteria with software
Sandia National Labs has developed software that will help researchers find weaknesses in deadly bacteria.
Digital Government
Performance tracking, big data feedback and a nuclear landmark
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
KBase harnesses gene data for researchers
The new open software and data platform developed by scientists at DOE labs relieves research biologists from acting as programmers.
Cybersecurity
McClure to Veris, Microsoft in court, tech transfer at Los Alamos and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Modernization
600 million reasons to embrace Energy Star
Congress may mandate more data center efficiency, but CIOs shouldn't wait.
Digital Government
National labs go big on climate modeling
Eight national laboratories will team with other institutions to develop new climate and Earth system models.
Cybersecurity
Learning from larceny, SXSW crowdsourcing and tracking business incentives
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
People
Energy Department CIO Brese headed to private sector
Bob Brese’s last day on the job as CIO at the Energy Department will be Sept. 5.
Modernization
Data center innovation: New ways to save energy
Revised thermal standards and an array of cooling techniques promise to reverse the data center power drain.
Modernization
NNSA tests cloud-based data-collection system
RadResponder project would give responders better access to key data in a nuclear emergency.
Cybersecurity
New No. 1 at DIA, No. 2 at NNSA, missing emails and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Before CyberVor: A dozen key federal breaches
As 1.2 billion internet logins are compromised, FCW revisits the most notable agency cyber-breaches of the last four years.
People
For NRC’s Ash, information comes before technology
Nuclear Regulatory Commission CIO Darren Ash has some definite views on how technology can change government.
Cybersecurity
Appropriators consolidate cyber spending, IG dings HHS and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
People
Senate confirms Creedon at NNSA
New deputy administrator returns to the agency after a decade on Capitol Hill and at the Defense Department.
Modernization
Security checks, Moore's law, spectrum sharing and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity