Cybersecurity

Integrated acquisition, agile procurement and defense tech spending

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Acquisition

Mobile app criteria, new Snowden revelations and more

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Acquisition

IARPA looks to the crowd

The intelligence R&D lab wants a platform for crowdsourcing the development and refining of arguments.

Modernization

Counting mobile, robot gap, rural tech and more

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Cybersecurity

Comey: Industry letter on encryption is 'depressing'

The FBI director said a head-on collision is coming between privacy and public safety.

Cybersecurity

Fate of surveillance program lies in Senate's hands

After the House voted overwhelmingly to rein in the NSA's bulk-data collection program, the Senate is set for a showdown.

Cybersecurity

Geodata brokers, spear-phishing feds, a Data Act playbook and more

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Cybersecurity

Spy gadgets, transparency and 800 monkeys

Robert Litt, general counsel for the ODNI, argues that Congress and the courts have a say on intelligence policy, but not on the tech used to implement it.

Cybersecurity

NSA chief wary of proxies

Adm. Michael Rogers says nation-states might increasingly turn to surrogates to conduct cyberattacks.

Cybersecurity

NSA surveillance and an HHS nomination

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Cybersecurity

IARPA, IBM look to advance quantum computing

IBM scientists say they have solved a crucial problem in quantum computing, just in time for an upcoming IARPA event on the subject.

Cybersecurity

Another CIO retirement, Lerner's email and an unpatched software alert

News and notes from around the federal IT community

Cybersecurity

NSA's Silicon Valley outreach a work in progress

The wounds left by disclosures of National Security Agency surveillance may not have healed, but the NSA will continue to plumb Silicon Valley for talent.

Cybersecurity

One down, one to go on info sharing legislation

The House passed the Intelligence Committee's version of an information sharing bill, and has the Homeland Security measure on deck.

Cybersecurity

Piecing together the insider threat puzzle

Software and automation are crucial to preventing leaks and sabotage, but they're not the only tools deployed by agencies that collect and guard secret information.

Cybersecurity

NSA touts role in cyber investigations

National Security Agency Director Adm. Michael Rogers called for closer and more rapid collaboration with the private sector in investigating cyber intrusions.

Digital Government

GAO nudges OMB, NSA likes data and Data.gov does, too

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Cybersecurity

IARPA eyes insider-threat tech

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity's April 16 Proposers' Day will explore advances in continuous monitoring of insider threats.

Acquisition

SEWP winners and cyber legislation

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Cybersecurity

New NGA CIO 'bullish' on IT deployment

NGA CIO and director of IT services Douglas McGovern say his new office will help the agency deliver better intelligence to government customers.