Cybersecurity

PM-ISE's Howell to lead Institute of Innovation at ACT-IAC

Longtime agency IT executive is leaving government and will assume new role in late September.

Cybersecurity

Planning for cyber war in South Dakota

At a Senate field hearing, the message was that tomorrow's talent needs nurturing -- and more scholarship cash -- if America is going to reverse its shortage of cybersecurity professionals.

Cybersecurity

Intel RFP, new NGA maps and another China hack

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Cybersecurity

IARPA tries to predict the unpredictable

The agency is seeking information on methods for forecasting rare events and alternative ways of assessing such methods.

Cybersecurity

NGA opens its doors to industry

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency hopes an upcoming industry day provides ideas about speeding up its acquisition cycle.

Cybersecurity

Decrypting outbound data a key to security

Decrypting and inspecting network traffic is still a work in progress for federal agencies, according to F5 Networks' Randy Wood.

Modernization

Another cyber bill, a FedRAMP report card, cyber-ed partnerships and more

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Cybersecurity

NSA lawyer with cyber cred, former FBI CIO moves and more

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Cybersecurity

IARPA gets a new director

Jason Matheny has worked at Oxford University, the World Bank and the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins.

Cybersecurity

In first policy speech, DIA director prioritizes ICITE

Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart pledges to drive an ambitious intelligence community IT project forward.

Cybersecurity

China hacking map, getting behind Einstein and Alabama cyber

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Acquisition

NIST app competition, Clapper's hack warning, DIA protests and a new intel CIO

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Cybersecurity

Where's the new cyber strategy?

A week after the end of the federal "sprint," OMB is working past its own deadline on the Federal Civilian Cybersecurity Strategy.

Cybersecurity

DOD looks to new analytics center to tackle insider threat

The Defense Insider Threat Management and Analysis Center is meant to be predictive rather than reactive, with the help of advances in big data.

Digital Government

McCain on defense bill, NGA on Hootenanny, Army on battlefield tech

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Modernization

Supercomputer centers, drone privacy and intel desktops

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Acquisition

IED-toting drones, NSA on GitHub, a new OASIS dashboard and more

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Modernization

IARPA wants a quantum leap

The intelligence community's research shop has released an RFP to help it make quantum computing a practical big-data solution.

Acquisition

NGA prepares directive to speed acquisition

NGA Deputy Director Susan Gordon says coming guidance will put tangible policy behind the agency’s oft-stated goal of more quickly deploying technologies.

Cybersecurity

IT tools can help declassification backlog, but is there funding?

Three pilot projects designed to prove out the software-based analysis concept have convinced members of the Public Interest Declassification Board that some level of automation can be introduced into the declassification process.