Digital Government
NSA returns to open source
The National Security Agency wants the private sector to use its NiFi tool to handle commercial big-data needs.
Cybersecurity
Digging into the immigration order's ripple effects
The president is also seeking ideas on modernizing the IT infrastructure that supports the visa processing system.
Modernization
Tanusree McCabe
This Blackstone Technology Group manager helped DHS agencies save money by embracing Web content management as a service.
Cybersecurity
Matthew Berninger
This Rising Star has committed himself to getting control of cyber threats and becoming the kind of cybersecurity expert the federal IT community needs.
Acquisition
Nina Malakouti
This Rising Star nailed down two of the General Services Administration's biggest Schedule 70 contracts in 2013.
People
Kent Reynolds
This Rising Star led a complete overhaul of Treasury's Budget Formulation and Execution Manager -- on budget and with no system downtime.
Cybersecurity
Damon Bragg
This Rising Star has transformed customer service operations for the Homeland Security Information Network.
People
Sivak: It's about 'changing the way we do things'
In the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence program, HHS matches project teams with outside tech experts to work for a year on innovative projects.
Digital Government
Updated fish drone monitors dam dangers
Data gathered by the Sensor Fish could aid in redesigning dams' hydroturbine chambers, where abrupt changes in pressure can kill salmon.
Digital Government
Los Alamos uses Wikipedia to predict disease outbreaks
Researchers aim for "an operational disease monitoring and forecasting system with open data and open source code."
Cybersecurity
Immigration order means big lift for CIS, ICE
An information-sharing program is being overhauled, and agencies will have to find funding to deal with a massive influx of applications.
Cybersecurity
Why the grid needs CDM
A Chertoff Group study assesses the state of readiness for U.S. critical infrastructure.
Acquisition
GSA works on CAP
"With IT, we will never be done categorizing," said Kevin Youel Page of the Federal Acquisition Service.
Cybersecurity
NIST, NARA move to secure federal data on outside systems
New draft guidelines would apply to sensitive but unclassified data on contractors' IT systems and other nonfederal networks.
Acquisition
NASA rethinks contract awards under latest SEWP iteration
Responding to multiple protests, NASA said that until "corrective action is complete, any awarded SEWP V contracts remain suspended."
People
HHS adds four more 'Entrepreneurs in Residence'
The latest participants in the department's tech development program were matched with teams of HHS employees to work for a year on "high risk high reward projects."
Modernization
NOAA hopes to find data security in the cloud
As the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pushes more of its massive trove of data out to the public, securing that information becomes a greater concern.
Cybersecurity
Drones and privacy: Rejecting regulation
A new Brookings study backs a property-rights approach to the drone privacy problem.
Cybersecurity
The promise of technology transfer
DHS S&T is lining up more technologies to make the transition from government to commercial application, in hopes they will redound to the benefit of all.
Acquisition