Digital Government
Voyager mission a long-lasting IT success
After more than 30 years, Voyager 1 has left the solar system, still transmitting useful data thanks to long-ago prescient IT choices.
Modernization
IBM seeks stay on court's ruling over CIA contract
IBM wants to ensure AWS's latest triumph in the battle to build the CIA's cloud platform is short-lived.
Digital Government
Private sector could bridge satellite gap
NOAA is considering commercial satellite providers as one of several options to keep weather data flowing during a potential three-year gap in the government's satellite coverage.
Modernization
NSA's $1.5 billion data center delayed
Unexplained power surges force postponement of planned opening.
Modernization
Supercomputing upgrade to improve big data at Postal Service
USPS has awarded a contract to expand the agency's already formidable high-powered computing capabilities.
People
VA furloughs 2,700 IT employees
As carrryover funding runs out, department succumbs to shutdown.
Modernization
AWS can resume CIA cloud project
Although IBM plans to appeal a judge's ruling, Amazon Web Services is ready to go back to work.
Modernization
Judge rules for Amazon Web Services over IBM in CIA cloud case
Court overturns GAO's decision on bid protest; IBM says it will appeal.
Digital Government
6 questions for IBM, Amazon and the CIA
Arguments have begun in the Amazon Web Services-IBM dispute over the CIA's cloud services contract.
Digital Government
Big data is big loser in priorities survey
More than half of government IT leaders expect no increase spending on big data in 2014, survey reveals.
Modernization
Amazon-IBM dispute enters next phase
Oral arguments are about to begin in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on AWS's appeal of a GAO decision that reopened the competition for a ground-breaking CIA contract.
People
Postal Service picks acting CIO
James Cochrane will temporarily replace Ellis Burgoyne, who has retired.
Modernization
Survey: Budget poses the biggest threat to federal IT
400 government IT decision-makers reveal their ambitions and worries for the coming year.
Modernization
HP to host ID management hub for USPS
The project is the federal government's first cloud-based identity management pilot.
People
Public sector's push toward risk management paying off
Agencies are doing better than the private sector at integrating risk into cybersecurity decisions, study finds.
People
Feds' social media updates among shutdown casualties
Many of the employees who maintain agency Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest accounts will be furloughed until the shutdown ends.
Cybersecurity
Foreign cyber adversaries on the rise
Increasingly, hackers are not motivated by the prospect of easy money. Now they're after our secrets.
Digital Government
What's the worst that could happen?
If Congress can't come up with a way to continue funding the federal government by Oct. 1, many people won't notice much difference, at first. But it won't take long for the consequences to grow more dire.
Cybersecurity
GAO: Mixed results thus far implementing FISMA
Agencies have improved compliance with FISMA requirements, but checking all the boxes has not translated into taking full advantage of the enhancements that are available.
People