Cybersecurity
Hockey footage aids in biometric system choice
DHS plans to use video footage shot at a hockey game to compare the capabilities of facial recognition systems.
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.
Acquisition
Argonne, Fermi host fair to engage small contractors
Energy Department research labs want half their contracts to go to small businesses.
Digital Government
Now it's easier to get your hands on Los Alamos innovations
'Express Licensing' program designed to speed up the commercialization of new technologies.
People
Top Energy Department official stepping down
Gil Vega, the Energy Department's assistant CIO for cybersecurity and chief information security officer, is leaving his post for a private sector position.
Digital Government
VanRoekel: OMB has no role in approving energy-savings contracts
As lawmakers continue to try to make sense of a hold on an Energy Department project, the U.S. CIO's response at a hearing provokes more questions.
Digital Government
A piece of Cold War history opens to the public
National lab declassifies 'Tunnel Vault,' which stored nuclear material after WWII.
Modernization
Data center holdup: A question of funding?
A reader wonders whether the mysterious hold on a data-center consolidation project could be over who pays the bill.
Digital Government
DOE appeal: Breaking exaflop barrier will require more funding
As China takes the lead in the supercomputer race, the Energy Department asks for continued congressional support in its efforts to advance.
Modernization
DOE data center deal still at impasse
Legislators seek answers as it becomes unclear whether OMB or the Energy Department itself is holding up the department's energy-saving contract.
Modernization
Energy-saving data center contract languishes under OMB hold
OMB put the brakes on a contract between the Energy Department and Lockheed Martin in March and has yet to explain its reasons, according to the affected parties.
Digital Government
Livermore has petaflops to share
One of the Energy Department's national laboratories is offering space in its supercomputer to industry and academia.
Digital Government
Los Alamos Lab gets its own app
The once-secretive government lab that gave birth to the atomic bomb now offers history and news to anyone with an iPhone.
People
Moniz confirmed as Energy Secretary
By a vote of 97-0, the Senate approved the appointment of the MIT physicist to lead DOE.
Cybersecurity
DOE data breach came after warnings
The Energy Department's IG had pointed out vulnerabilities in the agency's cybersecurity program just weeks before a successful cyberattack compromised confidential data.
People
Energy picks deputy CIO
Donald Adcock, who joined the Energy Department in April 2012, will become its new deputy CIO.
Digital Government
Big ideas about big data could win prizes
NASA and other agencies are hosting a series of competitions to gain ideas regarding some challenges of big data.
Digital Government
Sandia's 'MegaDroid' connects 300,000 virtual mobile devices
Research project aims to develop tools to bolster security for smartphone networks.
Cybersecurity
Energy Commission creates cybersecurity division in bid to secure critical infrastructure
With cybersecurity legislation so far going nowhere, the agency that oversees the power grid is taking action on its own.
Modernization
Virtualization: A first step to the cloud
Tackling the cultural and technical changes required for the virtualization of IT can make a future transition to a cloud environment much easier.
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