Ideas

Creating a More Secure and High-Quality Open-Source Supply Chain

There are a few strategies agency administrators can adopt to help their open-source supply chains remain secure and reliable.

Digital Government

SEC's open data rule could come before end of Obama administration

Open data advocates may get a long sought after change to data standards in filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Digital Government

Open source is so much more than free code

The former Department of Veterans Affairs CIO shows how successful development and use of open source software requires collaboration, transparency and a commitment to management.

Emerging Tech

To Dodge Regulators, Self-Driving Car Startup Released All Its Code for Free

What’s not available? The wealth of data necessary for the algorithms to actually function.

Modernization

Patent Office Joins Open Source Movement

The office has published the source code for an app that lets users track the status of trademarks.

Digital Government

White House Launches Federal Software Code's New Home

U.S. Chief Information Officer Tony Scott unveiled Code.gov on Thursday.

People

White House opens Code.gov repository

The Obama administration has launched a central code resource for digital tool development as part of its open source software policy.

Digital Government

Here’s How the Pentagon Wants to Use Social Media On the Battlefield

Artificial intelligence will weave open-source and satellite data into useful intelligence in real time, the Pentagon’s No. 2 says.

Emerging Tech

Agencies Try a Tool That Digs Up What Google Doesn't

Parts of the government are using a deep web search engine that teaches itself to return better search results.

Digital Government

White House open-sources chatbot

With 1.5 million messages coming in since the August launch of its Facebook Messenger bot, the White House has opened the code to developers and non-developers alike.

Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk’s OpenAI Is Using Reddit to Teach AI to Speak Like Humans

The goal of this project is to allow a robot to become smart enough to not only recognize speech, but to also use the data it gathers to formulate appropriate responses on its own.

Ideas

How To Ensure Trustworthy, Open Source Elections

From the perspective of voters, a trustworthy election is one in which they can be confident their votes have been counted as cast and their anonymity has been maintained.

Emerging Tech

White House Unveils Data Sharing Platform for Climate Change Research

A public-private partnership, including Microsoft, Google and Amazon Web Services, aims to open up climate-related data.

Digital Government

Innovation After Hours: Check Out Nextgov’s Newest Event

We’ve themed our first program in this series of events around open source and analytics.

Digital Government

Report: If DOD Doesn't Embrace Open Source, It'll 'Be Left Behind'

Currently, the department uses open source software “infrequently and on an ad hoc basis,” unlike tech companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook that wouldn’t exist without open source software.

Digital Government

HHS Revises Open Gov Policy to be More Open

The agency published the fourth draft of its open government plan.