Digital Government
Inside the world of cybercrime
Former federal prosecutor David Locke Hall recounts the investigation and takedown of a $100 million cybercrime operation.
Digital Government
Making your own luck
Pagan Kennedy explores what it takes to truly invent -- and whether we can find ways to encourage more of it.
Cybersecurity
House committee wants details on DOD, DHS West Coast offices
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is asking for information on the staffing and budget levels at the two agencies' Silicon Valley offices.
Digital Government
CitizenScience.gov: Not your grandfather's GSA
Steve Kelman checks in on the bootstrap effort to better crowdsource government research.
Modernization
Techies: make bank at CFPB
With a veteran CIO planning his exit, the CFPB needs a new tech leader – and the agency can offer far more than the typical federal salary.
Digital Government
Health record advisory groups divided over patient data control
A pair of federal advisory committees approved privacy recommendations amid debate over whether patients or practitioners should control the sharing of health data.
Cybersecurity
NGA follows DOD to Silicon Valley
This summer the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will open an outpost in Silicon Valley to create a presence for the intelligence agency similar to the Defense Department's DIUx.
Modernization
Building an agile government with cloud-based analytics
A combination of public cloud and open-source technology could help agencies bridge the analytics gap.
Cybersecurity
What DIUx might mean for intel
The intelligence community wants to build on the Pentagon's effort to get private-sector innovators involved earlier in the acquisition cycle.
Digital Government
USAID's beta site is meant to look nongovernmental
In a bid to democratize development worldwide, USAID is partnering with other organizations to create a website that doesn't even end in .gov.
Digital Government
GSA unifies tech groups into single service
18F, the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies and the Presidential Innovation Fellows program are being combined into a single technology office.
Acquisition
What getting to agile looks like from the trenches
Steve Kelman talks to a longtime contracting officer about the realities of making agile work for an agency.
Digital Government
House Republicans tout innovation agenda
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy wants to spur the pace at which government adapts and adopts new technology.
Digital Government
How data can help counter violent extremism
A new public-private collaboration looks to distribute usable data that can help analysts and others understand and unwind conflicts on the ground.
Modernization
Can government tech compete with Uber and Netflix?
Given the public's increasing expectations for government services to be available from anywhere, agencies might have to ditch incremental change in favor of transformation.
Digital Government
Tech startups with Chinese characteristics
Steve Kelman travels to China, and finds a different twist on incubators and innovation.
People
U.S. Digital Service team makes recruitment pitch at SXSW
CTO Megan Smith and USDS Director Haley Van Dyck tried to sell techies at the South by Southwest Interactive conference on public service careers.
Acquisition
More federal open source appreciated, if it behaves
The tech industry welcomes more open-source software in the federal government, but with a few caveats.
People
The topics Obama plans to hit -- and avoid -- at SXSW
The presidential call to action will likely skirt encryption and hiring and instead ask techies to dip into government on a short-term basis.
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