Cybersecurity
DHS to expand foreign biometric data sharing
The Homeland Security Department's five-month-old Office of Biometric Identity Management will use a $33 million contract with Accenture to improve its ability to trade information with allied nations.
Cybersecurity
Why even walkie-talkies need systems management
Department taken to task for mishandling hundreds of thousands of radios and other components of its land mobile radio systems.
Cybersecurity
TSA expands rapid screening program
A new option allows passengers to access expedited security with no advance sign-up, using technology to determine which travelers are eligible based on information they provided when buying their tickets.
Cybersecurity
DHS agencies can't wait for BPA
With a bid protest delaying department-wide strategic sourcing contract, two components move to strike their own deals.
Acquisition
Is it time to reinvent acquisition?
Industry group calls for better workforce training and 'fundamental change' to the process.
Digital Government
Outlook bleak for fiscal 2014 defense funding
Jobs, military assets, R&D and technological superiority are all at risk.
Cybersecurity
NSA's long history of paying carriers for data
Recent revelations continue a decades-long trend, and some experts say the payments can serve as a restraint.
Cybersecurity
TSA adds forbidden articles to app
A new search feature lets passengers determine quickly what they can and can't take aboard a plane.
Digital Government
Survey tracks rise of 4G LTE
4G LTE services are part of GSA's recent wireless BPAs.
Acquisition
OASIS sparks cheering, challenges
The General Services Administration is being simultaneously praised and pummeled by organizations interested in its $60 billion One Acquisition Solutions for Integrated Services multiple award contracts.
Digital Government
Hacker pleads guilty, targeted DOE
A hacker has pleaded guilty to charges he had hacked into supercomputers owned by the Department of Energy and planned to sell access to them for tens of thousands of dollars.
Cybersecurity
Android users warned about increased malware attacks
DHS and FBI say "market share and open source architecture" make Android a target for malware.
Digital Government
Who's the next head of Hezbollah? New platform has some predictions
University of Maryland researchers test tool for mapping terror and criminal org charts.
Cybersecurity
Napolitano bids DHS adieu
In a parting address, secretary warns of both cyber and fiscal challenges.
Acquisition
GSA addresses OASIS protest
Amendment assuages USfalcon's concern; second protest remains underway.
Acquisition
Air Force expands OASIS embrace
Three Air Force organizations have expressed a desire to use GSA's OASIS contract.
Digital Government
NOAA undertakes post-Sandy mapping
The science agency is attempting to assess the effects of the storm on the coastal areas and shallow waters that were in its path.
Modernization
Software-Defined Networks: Lots of optimism, less knowledge
Agency IT managers have great expectations, survey suggests, but limited understanding of how SDNs actually work.
Modernization
FirstNet readies spending plan
The board of the federal agency charged with managing the development of a nationwide wireless emergency communications network has approved an almost $200 million spending plan for the project in 2014 and appointed a White House budget official to manage it.
Digital Government