Ideas

How to Secure an Increasingly Mobile Federal Workforce

Adopting strong authentication by using derived PIV credentials may be an agency’s best and first line of defense.

Modernization

Jeh Johnson Says He'll Stop Checking Gmail from Work, 'Probably Should Have Done It Sooner'

Johnson addressed reports that he and his senior staffers were using work computers to check private webmail accounts.

Ideas

5 Questions to Ask Before Redesigning Your Agency Website

Before embarking on this potentially time-consuming and costly endeavor, agency decision-makers need to ensure their teams have the right information.

Modernization

Google Wants to Make Your Cellphone Screen Disappear

The phones of the future might look very different.

Modernization

DOD CIO: We Need to Consider Legal Issues Around Mobility

Access to new technology has infused organizations with tools that increase productivity. That’s great for employers, but not so much for mobile-device-wielding employees.

Modernization

Pentagon Not Ready for Bring-Your-Own-Device Just Yet

DOD Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen said the initiative has been delayed as other business got in the way.

Ideas

In the Future, We’ll All Use Our Phones to Identify Ourselves

The most successful mobile identity services highly depend on collaboration between public authorities, banks, telecom operators and the private sector.

Modernization

Pentagon Moves Ahead with Plan Allowing Personnel to Access Classified Info from Mobile Devices

The new mobile classified capability is one piece of the Pentagon’s Joint Information Environment plan.

Ideas

6 Reasons Your Agency Needs an App Store

Does your agency have an enterprise app store? If not, then consider these six benefits to adoption.

Modernization

Who Has the Best App in Government?

An FDA app used by food investigators to enter data while performing field inspections won "Best Business Investment."

Digital Government

Watchdog Says Agencies Aren’t Tracking How Much They Spend on Smartphones

The federal government spends about $1.2 billion each year on circa 1.5 million mobile devices and services.

Modernization

Video: Apple Now Has New Location-Tracking Powers

How the tech company is improving upon GPS for its users.

Ideas

Agency CIOs Need to Be Aware of the Dangers of Consumer Tech

Agency CIOs must be cautious when procuring IT products developed for consumers.

Modernization

Here Are the Agency Websites Google Doesn’t Think are Mobile Friendly

Bad news for some dot-govs: Google will now rank websites based on their mobile friendliness.

Modernization

Why Some Agencies Need to Be More Smartphone-Friendly

About 40 percent of smartphone-toting Americans have used their devices to look up government and services.

Cybersecurity

Pentagon Personnel Now Talking on 'NSA-Proof' Smartphones

The Defense Department has rolled out supersecret smartphones for work and maybe play, made by anti-government-surveillance firm Silent Circle,

Modernization

Using a Smartphone May Make You Smarter

Scientists have discovered at least one way in which the smartphone affects the brain positively.