Cybersecurity
FirstNet RFP, Navy CIO and S&T on Facebook
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Gun-testing robot, Open Internet guidance and a health care breach
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
Open Internet controversy could imperil FCC IT modernization
In aiming to curtail any "net neutrality" proposals, appropriators might nick the agency's IT spending.
Digital Government
FCC unveils prototype website redesign
The new FCC site, with enhanced data functionality and a better search engine, is expected to launch by Sept. 30.
Cybersecurity
Citizen broadband, DHS duplication and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
FCC posts open Internet rules, prepares for budget backlash
Net neutrality rules have limited implications for agencies, but the FCC's own funding could suffer as a result.
Modernization
A new take on the cloud divide: 'It's pets and cattle'
Federal agencies live in two tech worlds, but standards and steady innovation are slowly nosing out long-held legacy systems.
Digital Government
'Big data itself is not a strategy'
From the Army to the FCC, agencies are learning how to use analytics as a means to measurable ends.
Modernization
Cloudy with a chance of murky
Federal cloud managers say agencies must think in broad strokes without losing sight of the details and must relinquish tasks but not control.
Modernization
The FCC's one-man tweet storm
FCC CIO David Bray uses Twitter to tell the agency’s story and to be available to stakeholders.
Modernization
A mountain of net neutrality comments, a privacy paradox, ransomware warnings and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Acquisition
What does it take to get agencies to give up spectrum?
Legislative proposals suggest giving agencies control of receipts of spectrum auction, but perhaps not enough to spur action.
Digital Government
What do 800,000 people have to say on net neutrality?
The Sunlight Foundation has teased patterns and sentiments from the FCC's massive data set of net neutrality public comments.
People
FCC taps Scott Jordan for CTO role
Replacement for Henning Schulzrinne hails from University of California, Irvine.
Modernization
FCC passes new text-to-911 rules
While just two percent of Americans have access to text-to-911 services -- and not all commissioners support the idea -- new FCC rules promise wider deployment.
Acquisition
18F's API standards, GSA's newest dashboard, FCC's cyber-obligations and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community
People
FCC's crash, American Systems' new CEO and Los Alamos' latest app
News and notes from around the federal IT community
Modernization