Modernization
Office of American Innovation on Keeping Modernization Apolitical
The office is turning its attention to finding secure identification systems.
Emerging Tech
The Intelligence Community Wants to Hear Your Cutting-Edge Tech Pitch
ODNI is expanding one of its major vendor outreach programs to speed up adoption of emerging tech and modernize the intelligence community’s IT infrastructure.
Emerging Tech
Lawmaker: Human Problem at Pentagon Worse than Tech Problem
Rep. Jim Cooper says Congress shouldn’t accept a government topped by acting political appointees.
Digital Government
Agencies Meet Small Business Contract Goals
Eight receive an A+ procurement rating, the Small Business Administration says.
Ideas
Collaboration the Key to Resolving Spectrum Skirmishes
Spectrum is limited but it doesn't have to be a zero-sum game.
Ideas
The Problem With Diversity in Computing
Tech’s discriminatory culture might never change, no matter how many women and people of color are invited into the room.
Artificial Intelligence
Pentagon Targets August for JEDI Award
The Defense Department is making its source selection “disconnected” from Oracle’s pending court case.
Digital Government
How Far Will Google’s Billion-Dollar Bay Area Housing Plan Go?
The single largest commitment by a private employer to address the Bay Area’s acute affordable housing crisis is unique in its focus on land redevelopment.
Emerging Tech
Google Maps Wants to Help Users Navigate During Natural Disasters
The app will offer crisis navigation warnings and provide detailed visual information about hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes.
Emerging Tech
The ‘Platform’ Excuse Is Dying
For years, tech companies have relied on a rhetorical sleight of hand. It’s not working anymore.
Policy
House Appropriations Package Now Includes Contractor Back Pay
There is still a chance federal contractors unpaid during the 35-day shutdown could get back pay.
Digital Government
Watchdog: FCC’s Tech Advisory Council Is Too Heavily Skewed Toward Industry
The result is an ineffective body with minimal impact, according to former members.
Digital Government
Will Trump Object to the Raytheon-United Technologies Merger?
After an analyst said Obama-era opposition to consolidation had dissipated, Trump appeared to signal the opposite.
Digital Government
GSA Seeks Industry Feedback in Schedules Consolidation Effort
The agency wants buyers and sellers to weigh in as it works to modernize the Schedules process.
Digital Government
Why the Salesforce Acquisition of Tableau Matters to Government
Salesforce is positioning itself as more of a federal player with its purchase of Tableau.
Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft Unveils Artificial Intelligence Course for Government
Through online course materials, the tech giant hopes to help governments better implement the budding tech.
Emerging Tech
Pentagon ‘Matchmakers’ Aim to Keep U.S. Tech Firms from Taking Chinese Money
Defense officials hope to protect cutting-edge technologies by getting innovative firms funded by U.S.-friendly investors.
Emerging Tech
Adaptive Gaming Offers Disabled Veterans a New Way To Connect
A partnership between the Veterans Affairs Department and Microsoft is opening video games and esports up to vets with limited mobility.
Policy