Cybersecurity
White House Cites Intel Sharing Efforts in NDAA Veto Threat
The related provisions would implement major recommendations from the Cyberspace Solarium Commission.
Emerging Tech
White House, NSF Invest $75 Million to Launch Three Quantum Innovation Institutes
Each center will focus on innovating a different area of quantum information science and all will aim to help develop a talent pipeline.
Digital Government
Out of View: After Public Outcry, CDC Adds Hospital Data Back to Its Website — for Now
Dr. Joseph Varon, center, visits with Dorothy Webb, left, and her daughter, Tammie, while making his rounds inside the Coronavirus Unit at United Memorial Medical Center in July
Ideas
The Fed's Independence Helped It Save the US Economy in 2008 – the CDC Needs the Same Authority Today
There is a paradox inherent in the relationship between political leaders and technical experts in government.
Digital Government
U.S. Chief Technology Officer to Serve as One of the Pentagon's Top Tech Officials
The new acting head of defense research and engineering comes from the White House with a relatively light resume.
Modernization
OMB Names Two More Lead Offices for New Shared Services Regime
The announcement comes after two more agencies completed their marketplace implementation plans.
Digital Government
Trump Signs Executive Order to Overhaul the Federal Hiring Process
Order seeks to place less emphasis on applicants with college degrees.
Digital Government
Federal CIO Suzette Kent Tells Staff She’s Retiring
The government’s top IT leader is leaving government in July.
Digital Government
Federal Chief Data Officers Council Names First Chairman
The Agriculture Department’s data lead will take the reins of the new governmentwide council as agencies tick items off their data to-do lists.
Digital Government
Social Security Administration Seeks to Solicit More Feedback from Customers
The agency is following White House guidance to improve customer service delivery, beginning with getting more input from actual customers.
Digital Government
Trump’s Social-Media Order Is a Gift to Disinformation Bots, Experts Say
But much of the order may be legally unenforceable.
Cybersecurity
White House to Seek Comment on National 5G Security Strategy
The Pentagon and others want to move beyond activities focused on excluding Huawei and other equipment deemed tools of foreign adversaries from the ecosystem.
Digital Government
SBA’s Maria Roat Officially Named Deputy Federal CIO
Roat will take over the federal government’s No. 2 IT leadership role.
Cybersecurity
FBI Got Everything It Asked for in DNC Investigation, Refuting ‘Missing Server’ Myth
New transcripts released by the House intelligence committee shed light on Russia’s interference in 2016 election.
Cybersecurity
Citing Cyber Threats, Trump Orders Ban on Buying Energy Sector Equipment from Foreign Adversaries
Some stakeholders say Commerce Department rules to implement a similar order about telecommunications equipment from last May are “impossible” to comply with.
Emerging Tech
OSTP, NIST Team Up to Fine-Tune Search Engines for COVID-19 Research
Researchers are using the present health crisis to help improve search systems and enable clinicians to find better answers quicker.
Digital Government
Trump Removes Acting Pentagon IG Slated to Lead Pandemic Oversight
Only current IGs may serve in the new position created by Congress to oversee the government's coronavirus relief effort.
Artificial Intelligence
White House Expands Coronavirus-Focused Supercomputing Consortium
Officials are putting high-performance computing resources to work across the country to help combat COVID-19.
Podcasts
Critical Update: How the Coronavirus is Changing Federal Work
“Government is traditionally seen as this old, ancient, antiquated system … How [does this change] the future of work for government?”
Digital Government