Emerging Tech
Can HP's 'Security-as-a-Service' Product Change How Agencies Secure Apps?
Government customers can use it to perform security assessments of new or existing application code, websites and end-to-end mobile app security testing through the cloud.
Emerging Tech
Why ‘Cloud is Here to Stay’
Cloud computing may be the most-hyped technology since the Internet itself, but its reputation as a disruptor is perhaps one of the few technologies that would have Public Enemy changing their lyrics.
Emerging Tech
DISA Drops $1.6B Contract after Controversy
The cancellation comes as several companies protested the award in February.
Emerging Tech
Hillary’s Email Excuse: I Didn’t Want to Carry 2 Phones
Does convenience trump transparency?
Emerging Tech
Stop Hating on Graham’s Email Admission
Let’s bring back the Spice Girls, frosted hair tips and wide-legged jeans: It feels like 1995.
Emerging Tech
Halvorsen Now Defense Department’s Permanent CIO
Terry Halvorsen gets the bump from acting CIO and will exercise authority over the Pentagon’s $36 billion IT budget.
Emerging Tech
‘You Can Make Anything with a 3-D Printer’ and 3 Other Myths
A recent paper by intelligence community analysts and private sector researchers zeroes in on both the opportunities and risks of 3-D printing.
Emerging Tech
Does the Focus on Snowden Undermine Surveillance Reform Discussions?
Exaggerated headlines and narratives overshadow the importance of the Snowden leaks in understanding U.S. government surveillance.
Digital Government
EXCLUSIVE: Energy Department Gets New CIO
Michael Johnson, an official with the White House science office, is stepping into the role.
Emerging Tech
Why Big Data Gets a Bad Rap in Government
Believe it or not, big data is not all fire and brimstone, surveillance and mass spying.
Emerging Tech
When Congress and Cloud Collided
A lawmaker came up with a new meaning for the term “cloud.” But DOD’s chief information officer isn’t smiling.
Emerging Tech
Industry’s Take on FITARA? ‘A Good Step Forward’
Yet, fixing a procurement system designed to build warships to buy modern technology is an ask that CIOs will find more complex than any single piece of legislation can tackle.
Emerging Tech
CIA’s New Big Data Hub Will be Hosted in the Cloud
CIA Chief Information Officer Doug Wolfe confirmed Wednesday the intelligence agency will start using Cloudera’s Enterprise Data Hub platform by April.
Modernization
CSC Acquires Cloud Infrastructure Provider Autonomic Resources
With the purchase, CSC becomes an instant player in the federal cloud market.
Modernization
How Cloud Became Integral to Agency Strategy
On March 12, Nextgov will host an event to discuss where cloud technology is going in the government space.
Digital Government
Pentagon Narrows Down List of Contenders for Multibillion-Dollar Health Records Contract
DOD’s procurement team has established a “competitive range” for the contract, leaving only bids from three teams remaining.
Modernization
Multiple Companies Protest $1.6 Billion Pentagon Contract
The bid protestors contend the contract re-up is an improper sole-source request for cloud services that would give VMware an unfair advantage competing for DOD’s growing cloud demand.
Emerging Tech
DOD Wants Physical Separation for Classified Data in the Cloud … For Now
The Pentagon isn’t ready yet for classified information to be stored off-premise in the cloud.
Emerging Tech
America Needs a New FOIA Overseer: Is it You?
The office in charge of monitoring governmentwide FOIA compliance and policy is looking for a new leader.
Emerging Tech