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.

Modernization

Federal 100: David A. Bray

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Acquisition

Federal 100: T.A. Summerlin

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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

Disruptive defense tech, IC transparency, GSA's newest BPAs and a $427M bid protest

News and notes from around the federal IT community.