Ideas
Sensitive Data Must Be Protected. That Doesn’t Mean It Can’t Also Be Used.
Two promising tools may allow agencies to share data while maintaining privacy and security requirements.
Ideas
3 Ways Open Source is Accelerating Geoint for Defense Missions
For starters, collaborative tools can bring intelligence, private sector and academic communities into challenges.
Cybersecurity
Local Election Officials Can Get Free Election Auditing Software from the Feds
The open-source software is already being piloted in at least six states and officials say it can help authenticate results in 2020.
Digital Government
EPA Rule Will Make Its Custom Code Open Source By Default
As part of the new policy, EPA will create an enterprise code inventory to classify the extent to which all custom-built software will be shared with other agencies and the general public.
Digital Government
Senate Bill Would Open Some Weather Agency Models to the Public
The bill would require the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to share more weather modeling data with third parties and review possible innovations.
Digital Government
DOD pushes back on open source
The Government Accountability Office wants the Department of Defense to implement governmentwide open source software requirements, but the Pentagon's top tech official has other plans.
Ideas
Achieving DevSecOps Success Depends More on Trust than Tooling
Let’s explore what’s behind the cultural clash between the development, security and operations teams.
Digital Government
The semantics of disinformation
DARPA thinks it can detect automated disinformation campaigns across a range of media by focusing on common machine-generated errors.
Cybersecurity
Energy is Updating Its Cyber Posture Assessment Tool
The Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model helps organizations in government and industry assess how their cyber defenses stack up against established standards.
Cybersecurity
DHS Funds Research to Improve Software Security Analysis
The Science and Technology Directorate awarded a contract to standardize the process for evaluating static analysis tools, which agencies use to hunt for bugs in their IT systems.
Cybersecurity
Report: Code Responsible for Equifax Breach Downloaded 21 Million Times Last Year
The situation highlights the challenge of securing open source software, which underlies virtually every IT system in government.
Cybersecurity
Inside the Government's Open Source Software Conundrum
How do agencies make sure the crowdsourced code that underlies nearly every piece of tech on the market is safe to use?
Modernization
Innovation From Within: How One Employee-Built Tool is Revolutionizing VA
An open source tool called LEAF is saving the Veterans Affairs Department time, resources and perhaps millions in taxpayer dollars.
Emerging Tech
The Pentagon's Drones May Soon Run on Open Source Software
The Defense Innovation Unit is exploring whether a popular commercial platform could help the military keep up with the rapidly advancing drone industry.
Ideas
Understanding Today’s Mobile Software Supply Chain Risks
The reality is that supply chain risk is also a concern in the software frontier.
Ideas
Seizing the Opportunity to Close the Cybersecurity Skills Gap
Here's how the public sector could get a leg up on competing for cybersecurity talent.
Modernization
Watchdog: IRS botched Linux migration
Poor IT governance has prevented the IRS from making progress on a long-term effort to migrate 141 legacy applications from proprietary vendor software to open-source Linux operating systems, according to an audit.
Artificial Intelligence
IARPA Is Trying Keep Adversaries From Corrupting AI Tools
Could cyber adversaries be training the government’s artificial intelligence tools to fail?
Cybersecurity
Why user buy-in is the key to blockchain success
An organization can't put a blockchain vision in motion unless employees understand and buy into the impact it will have on them, the entire organization and its business processes
Ideas