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.