Artificial Intelligence

Coders Should Be Afraid of What Happened to the Journalism Industry

Many jobs are becoming vulnerable to outsourcing and automation.

Digital Government

More Than 200 US Diplomats, Civil Servants and Servicewomen Say They’ve Been Harassed at Work

An open letter titled #metoonatsec accuses their industry of systemic discrimination and harassment.

Ideas

The Key to Reducing Exposure to Cyber Liability, Part 2

Former federal CISO Greg Touhill explains how an organization's people play the largest role in reducing cyber liability.

Digital Government

How To Network At Conferences Even If You're Not a Natural

Don't miss out on the most valuable aspect of attending a conference.

Ideas

The Key to Reducing Exposure to Cyber Liability, Part 1

Former federal CISO Greg Touhill explains how to reduce an organization's exposure to breaches and subsequent liabilities.

Digital Government

Changing the Language in Job Ads Could Help Bring More Women Into Tech

Using gendered words or phrases can be exclusionary.

Ideas

How the New Science of Vulnerability Management Can Help Struggling Federal Networks

IT teams often have the tools to find network vulnerabilities. What they don't have is the manpower to fix them all.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Might Give You a Personal Assistant Instead of Taking Your Job

We’ve arguably never been busier—and more in need of some assistance.

Digital Government

Delayed Security Clearance Reforms Could Increase Costs for Agencies

Continuous evaluation could remain a pipe dream as cash-strapped agencies get no guidance from the top.

Modernization

The Most Important Productivity App Is the One That Stitches Them All Together

Welcome to the world of Recipes and Zaps.

Modernization

Feds Can Hire Short-Term Tech Talent for Modernizing

Office of Personnel Management announced a hiring authority would let agencies fill positions for up to a year.

Digital Government

Why the U.S. Fails at Worker Training

Automation and globalization are making some workers’ skills obsolete. Why can’t the federal government figure out how to successfully prepare Americans for the future?

Digital Government

Tech Industry Insiders Want to Standardize Data Scientists

A few companies are creating a Data Science Standards Board that Booz Allen Hamilton thinks could help government hire better.

Digital Government

Contractors Begin Early Shutdown Preparations

Agencies will be forced to shutter their doors on Oct. 1 if Congress fails to pass a spending bill to set agency funding for fiscal 2018.

Ideas

How Government Agencies Can Protect Their Social Media Accounts—And Employees

Do public officials have the right to block users who insult them or post scathing comments publicly? At least one court case says no.

Digital Government

LinkedIn Data Can Predict How Likely You Are to Quit, and It’s Being Sued to Keep it Public

LinkedIn has 500 million profiles online, an extraordinary wealth of information about the education and career paths of nearly 7% of all of humanity.

Digital Government

There Are More Programming Jobs Than Ever Outside of Silicon Valley

For decades, the software industry has been synonymous with Silicon Valley. That’s an increasingly dated concept.

Emerging Tech

Predictions for What Robots Will Do to the U.S. Workforce, Ranked From Certain Doom to Potential Utopia

No matter what you think, there’s probably a research-backed prediction that supports your view.

Artificial Intelligence

It Will Take Human-Machine Teams to Fight Cyber Threats, McAfee CTO Says

Artificial intelligence won’t replace humans, but it will change the way they work.

Cybersecurity

Millennials Pose Greatest IT Security Risk of Any Group, Survey Says

Millennials use unapproved apps, Generation X members ignore security policies and baby boomers get phished.