Cybersecurity
IG blasts secrecy on JFK IT security lapses
The DHS inspector general says TSA is unduly classifying embarrassing IT practices at the New York airport.
Cybersecurity
CIS gearing up for deferred action
Citizenship and Immigration Services wants to hire secure IT personnel ahead of an expected tsunami of new application forms.
Modernization
Lab's data center efforts lauded
Lawrence Livermore National Lab's data center consolidation program won a Sustainability Award from the Energy Department.
Modernization
Feds' cloud relationship knotty but ultimately nice
Considerable worry about security is leavened by what many IT managers term a "very successful" experience with cloud services.
Acquisition
DHA readies $10 billion IT contract
A final indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity IT services solicitation is expected in the third quarter of 2015.
Modernization
DHS eyes FirstNet to expand mobile capabilities
The Department of Homeland Security is also seeking faster development of mobile apps.
People
Category management will live on at GSA
People who work with GSA are confident that others who share Dan Tangherlini's reform instincts will keep the efforts running after his departure.
Acquisition
FedBid splits federal, commercial businesses
The federal business headed by Joe Jordan will retain the FedBid name.
Cybersecurity
Ending the tyranny of passwords
Eliminating the hassle of entering multiple passwords to navigate secure sites online will spark heavier public use, possibly affecting federal networks down the road.
People
Tangherlini leaving GSA next month
During his nearly three years on the job, GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini focused on building an innovation culture and overhauling the acquisition process.
Cybersecurity
Science and Technology Directorate wants to talk
DHS S&T has launched the National Conversation on Homeland Security Technology to inject outside innovators into its tech development processes.
Cybersecurity
Finding the federal angle at CES
Adapting consumer-oriented tech could lead to faster, more effective tools for the federal government, says CBP CTO Wolf Tombe.
Modernization
Largest digital camera ever will be pointed at the sky
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope 'will help researchers study the formation of galaxies, track potentially hazardous asteroids, observe exploding stars and better understand dark matter and dark energy.'
Acquisition
Working around OASIS' lack of BPAs
Federal customers can't use a blanket purchase agreement with OASIS, but they can use task orders to accomplish the same thing.
Acquisition
SEWP IV changes coming as SEWP V emerges
A fee decrease is among the changes taking place for the outgoing SEWP IV vehicle.
Cybersecurity
IG says Border Patrol drones not effective
CBP leadership contends that the inspector general’s criticism is too simplistic a way to look at the efficacy of border technology.
Cybersecurity
Cyber campus, St. E's funded in 2015
The omnibus spending bill includes $144 million for the new DHS site and $35 million for GSA’s civilian cyber campus.
Cybersecurity
Border Patrol finding new uses for data
Border security now means not only the basic metrics of apprehensions, but using that data to gauge and interdict looming threats.
Cybersecurity
FBI wants cyber sleuths with some muscle
The bureau’s cybersecurity job requirements require applicants to complete a stiff physical fitness test, even though most of their time will likely be spent behind a desk.
Cybersecurity