Cybersecurity

FBI Director: Time to Discuss Encryption Before 'Something Terrible Happens'

"At some point, encryption is going to figure into a major event in this country," Comey said.

Digital Government

NASA to Contractors: Hey, Do You Have $10M Worth of Our Stuff?

​The U.S. space agency wants to make sure its government property is accurately accounted for.

Cybersecurity

DISA Wants $9M to Fast Track Cyber Innovations

The agency's Rapid Innovation Fund is pursuing “mature prototypes” of cybersecurity technologies that could be operationalized within two years.

Digital Government

CIA Director: Open Source a ‘Tremendous Advantage’

Combining data sets offers a clearer picture of an event, John Brennan said.

Digital Government

IG Calls Out Federal Acquisition Service Over IT Resellers

The IG found commercial prices were lower for many of the top-selling items on GSA's IT Schedule.

Digital Government

Spy Chief 'Excited' about Agency’s Modernization Effort

Initial skepticism "has dissipated as we've been able to explain what the purpose is," John Brennan said.

Digital Government

Can Better IT Management Save Government $5.8B?

A new report emphasizes shared taxonomy for techies, the business side and executives so all stakeholders speak the same language.

Digital Government

Ebook: State of Federal IT Contracting

Read about the contracts that will help shape the future of federal IT and some of the technologies they'll likely help procure.

Digital Government

How DOD’s Third Offset Strategy Benefits NASA

The space agency's largest budget account is dedicated heavily to developing technologies that translate well to the defense world.

Digital Government

A New CISO for NASA

Jeanette Hanna-Ruiz will begin effective Aug. 8 after being selected by NASA CIO Renee Wynn.

Digital Government

Despite Improvements, Government Still Bottom of the Barrel in Customer Experience

Overall, Forrester rates the federal government’s average index as “poor," with agencies generally rating from “very poor” to “OK.”

Digital Government

Lawmakers Introduce Alternative to White House’s $3.1 Billion IT Modernization Fund

The Modernizing Outdated and Vulnerable Equipment and Information Technology Act of 2016, or MOVE IT, directs individual agencies to establish IT working capital funds.

Digital Government

Federal CIO Wants to Change How Government Accepts Unsolicited Ideas

The traditional processes that have dictated how the government buys technology have likely kept it from implementing a smorgasbord of ideas, Tony Scott says.

Digital Government

Deltek: Federal IT Spending to Remain Flat Over Next 5 Years

Total federal IT spending is predicted to decline from $99.8 billion in fiscal 2016 to $98.3 billion by 2021.

Digital Government

How to Continue FITARA’s Momentum in the Next Administration

With an administration shift, the people appointed sometimes “don’t even know how to spell ‘information technology,'" one former agency CIO said.

Digital Government

Tony Scott: IT Modernization Fund or Not, ‘Accountability All the Way’

The initial investment of $3.1 billion could fund as much as $15 billion worth of new applications and infrastructure over the next several years, but only if it’s paid back in full, Tony Scott said.