Modernization
DOD's IPv6 transition lags
The Pentagon was supposed to wrap up its IPv6 transition in 2012, but an IG report says the effort stalled because IT officials didn't make it a priority.
Digital Government
Making big data work
A draft of the NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework looks to establish a common set of definitions for data science.
Acquisition
FAA delays procurement to respond to hack
Unspecified cyberattack prompts agency to rethink its Security Operations Center requirements
Cybersecurity
Burr stumps for cyber bill
The North Carolina senator made CISA the focus of the Republican Party's weekly radio address.
Cybersecurity
Piecing together the insider threat puzzle
Software and automation are crucial to preventing leaks and sabotage, but they're not the only tools deployed by agencies that collect and guard secret information.
Cybersecurity
Air Force launches enterprise cyber strategy
Task Force Cyber Aware will take a year to diagnose the service's risks and vulnerabilities.
Digital Government
Commerce aims to lead feds in data
CIO Steve Cooper is encouraging Commerce IT and data staffers to think entrepreneurially about data.
Digital Government
Fed banking on new data sources
Siloed data could provide a near real-time impression of the health of the economy, says Federal Reserve Board CDO Micheline Casey.
People
DISA seeks updated spectrum management tool
Increased sharing is making spectrum management a critical function.
People
HHS CTO steps down
Sivak came to the federal government after serving as chief innovation officer under former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, a possible 2016 presidential candidate.
Cybersecurity
FBI wants 'legislative fix' on device encryption
The director of the FBI wants Congress to dispense with unbreakable encryption on smartphones.
People
Tony Scott's 'people agenda'
Integrating USDS staff with the existing IT workforce will be "one of the trickier things we have to do," says the new U.S. CIO.
People
Gerry Connolly: FITARA's force multiplier
For two decades, Eagle award winner Rep. Gerry Connolly has focused on IT, agency employees and the companies that partner with government.
Modernization
Guthrie, Matsui renew bid to compensate federal agencies for spectrum
Under current law, agencies have no incentives to make more efficient use of their spectrum, curtail operations or share with other agencies.
Digital Government
Pentagon official: DoD-VA info sharing improving, but work remains
Real time data transactions between the VA and Pentagon are growing, and have expanded to include the Veterans Benefits Administration.
People
New federal CIO looks to execution, not invention
Trained pilot Tony Scott says he wants to "land the planes that we've launched."
People
CMS releases new data exchange rule for health records
The comment period on the proposed EHR rule ends May 29.
Acquisition
Warren: VISTA is here to stay
The pending move by DoD to a system based on a commercial health record system won't alter the data sharing relationship with VA, says the acting CIO.
People
Few levers to keep records scofflaws in line
When the boss wants to use her personal email to conduct government business, what is a records officer to do?
People