Modernization
FedRAMP’s Influence Grows Outside the Beltway
Compliance with the cloud-vetting regime even helped one U.S. tech firm win a contract with the Canadian government.
Digital Government
Report: Feds Say Data Centers in Danger of Becoming Obsolete
Only 11 percent of l IT managers in a new survey say they believe their agency’s data centers currently meet mission demand.
Digital Government
Pentagon Extends Deadline for $17.5B IT Deal
The contract is primarily designed to help the Pentagon modernize its IT infrastructure under the Joint Information Environment.
Modernization
A Revamped FedRAMP Revealed
The old approach has proven time consuming, and as time has gone by, more duplicative and less effective as more cloud service providers attempted to have their offerings meet FedRAMP’s requirements.
Cybersecurity
Trump: US is ‘Obsolete’ in Cybersecurity
Trump claimed the Defense Department was “going backwards” in cyber while “other countries are moving forward at a much more rapid pace.”
Emerging Tech
Pentagon: ‘Innovation is a National Security Imperative’
If the quest for innovation could hold the keys to DOD’s most important technological riddles, its top officials have now made three visits to the West Coast tech hub and set up shop.
Emerging Tech
A Search for the Government’s Oldest Computer
A 30-year-old computer in Grand Rapids that controls a school’s temperature, a 40-year-old machine in Hawaii handling payroll and the computers at NASA built for the Voyager space mission are all in contention.
Emerging Tech
The World’s Internet Connectivity is Getting Faster
Globally, the average connection speed jumped from 5.6 Mbps to 8.6 Mbps, a 23 percent increase from 2014.
Digital Government
Improving the Veteran Experience is (Literally) the Top Priority at VA
VA Secretary Bob McDonald announced 12 "breakthrough priorities" to Congress in early 2016.
Digital Government
VA Claims Backlog Now at 75,000 - Lowest Since 2009
Greg Giddens, acting chief acquisition officer for VA, told an industry audience Tuesday VA’s “dramatic reduction” in the claims backlog is evidence the agency’s transformational efforts under Secretary Bob McDonald have paid off.
Digital Government
NIH Opens Small Business ‘On-Ramp' to $20B Contract
Bids from new small businesses are due by April 18, with awards expected in early 2017.
Emerging Tech
On March 31, Come Talk Internet of Things with Nextgov
How is government coping with this new world of connectivity?
Digital Government
Need Something from the Government? Most Would Prefer Visiting a Website
A new study suggests American citizens are more satisfied with the government’s delivery of digital services than government’s overall service delivery.
Digital Government
These 6 Agencies are Wizards at Closing Data Centers
If the rest of government copied what these half dozen agencies have done in adhering to data center consolidation, the government would save a whole lot more money.
Digital Government
A New CIO for the CIA
John Edwards will return to the agency, where he worked for 15 years before his employment in the private sector.
Cybersecurity
Could IT Problems Ground NASA?
A new story suggests NASA’s networks are filled with malware, unpatched for software vulnerabilities perhaps a million times over, and that the relationship between NASA executives and Hewlett Packard Enterprise is strained beyond repair.
Digital Government
How the CIA is Making Sense of Big Data
The new Directorate for Digital Innovation resulted from the technological explosion of connectivity and data among devices, sensors and people.
Cybersecurity
Texas Congressman to Feds: Don’t Mess with Civil Liberties
“We can protect civil liberties, defend infrastructure and chase bad guys all at the same time,” the legislator said. “We can chase bad guys without eroding our civil liberties.”
Emerging Tech
Cloud Giant Amazon Web Services Turns 10
Over the last decade, AWS has come to dominate the infrastructure-as-a-service market.
Modernization