Digital Government

State's chief information security officer to lead DHS cybersecurity efforts

The new head of the Homeland Security Department's National Cybersecurity Division will come from the State Department.

Modernization

Take two: Interior to reopen contract for cloud services

The Interior Department will reopen bids to move its 88,000 email users to the cloud.

Digital Government

NIST seeks data searchers

NIST seeks participants for annual data-mining conference.

Digital Government

NIST security expert elected AAAS fellow

The world's largest general scientific society will honor a member of the NIST Information Technology Laboratory.

People

Technology enables USDA office closures

The agency is shuttering 259 locations for cost savings.

Modernization

Army explores e-textbook possibilities

The Army begins research for platform-agnostic e-textbooks.

Modernization

CIO.gov outage fixed with 'hardware maintenance'

The website that hosts federal IT strategy suffered an outage.

Cybersecurity

Facial recognition technology creates privacy headaches for agencies

As some federal agencies embrace the facial recognition tools, others raise the privacy flag.

People

NASA boldly goes to the open-source frontier

NASA launches a new website to foster collaboration on open-source projects.

People

Leave fed pay and benefits alone, union says

Feds have sacrificed enough, union says.

People

Hire those federal interns

Lawmakers seek to improve federal intern conversion.

People

Air Force offers early outs and buyouts -- again

The Air Force's ongoing restructuring effort leads to another round of voluntary retirement and separation.

People

Dot-gov Web sprawl a challenge to untangle

Reform efforts have reduced the number of government websites, but the trickiest challenges lie ahead.

People

Workforce spared, for now, in tax cut extension

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives announced that they would accept compromise legislation that provides a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut set to expire at the beginning of the year.

Digital Government

Cybersecurity expert Richard Clarke lands new gig

Former presidential adviser Richard A. Clarke joins security firm Identive Group.

Digital Government

Cybersecurity expert Richard Clarke lands new gig

Former presidential adviser Richard A. Clarke joins security firm Identive Group.

Cybersecurity

DHS cyber office director leaves government

The National Cyber Security Division director will leave her post near the end of January.

People

Are you a fed? Please stay.

Federal human resources officials weigh in on their worries for the new year.

Cybersecurity

Hacktivists may target feds working on WikiLeaks case

An Internet consultant says Anonymous chat rooms may be cooking up a revenge against a few people connected to Pfc. Bradley Manning's hearing.

Modernization

Do you succumb to mouse rage?

How many computer users ever yell at their machines? Maybe more than you would guess.