Digital Government

House Oversight Votes to Hold Clinton Techie in Contempt

Bryan Pagliano, former tech specialist for Hillary Clinton, previously warned he would evoke his Fifth Amendment rights if he testified.

Digital Government

House Passes Modernizing Government Technology Act

The federal government’s woefully old IT systems are apparently something both political parties believe require fixing.

Digital Government

IG: GSA’s Schedules Program Pricing Issues Cost Taxpayers

The audit also found instances where the Schedules Program is not providing the lowest overall cost alternative to government customers.

Digital Government

How FITARA Changed the CIO Game

Legislation gave CIOs new visibility into their own agencies.

Digital Government

Federal CIO Survey: It’s Cyber, Then Everything Else

One CIO described cybersecurity as the government’s “never-ending bug hunt."

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

NOAA Awards 2 Contracts Under Commercial Weather Data Pilot

Under the deals, two companies will essentially act as private sector guinea pigs, using their satellites to collect and distribute radio occultation data to NOAA.

Digital Government

Hurd Introduces Modernizing Government Technology Act to House

New IT legislation is a combination of Hurd’s MOVE IT act and the IT Modernization Fund championed by U.S. CIO Tony Scott

Digital Government

Join GovExec & Nextgov for the Federal Customer Experience Summit

The Obama administration continues to push government toward enhancing CX, and the White House pressure has many agencies trying to get it together.

Digital Government

How the Postal Service Regained Customers’ Trust After Throwing Packages

In today’s era of retail behemoths like Amazon and Wal-Mart and delivery giants like FedEx and UPS, improved customer service has helped keep the Postal Service competitive.

Digital Government

18F Expects to Break Even in 2019; Looks to Show Value

Dave Shive said the tech hub “expects to be cost recoverable” by 2019, in line with GAO’s best-case projections.

Modernization

FedRAMP Is Now At Least 3 Times Faster

“We’re now talking under four months for the first authorization,” FedRAMP Director Matt Goodrich said.

Digital Government

Report: Want Innovation? Hire and Empower CTOs

Chief technology officers should be empowered to deliver new solutions and approaches.

Emerging Tech

You Can Now Buy a USB Stick That Destroys Any Computer

The gadget will "instantly and permanently disable" any device it plugs into, says the manufacturer.

Digital Government

GSA Official: Federal IT Modernization Will Happen With or Without Legislation

Even if Congress doesn't pass a meaningful law, agencies must respond to a crisis U.S. Chief Information Officer Tony Scott has labeled worse than Y2K.

Digital Government

Following Bid Protest, DISA Re-Releases $17.5B Contract

Encore III earned ire from industry groups earlier this year because it sought “lowest price, technically acceptable” solutions for potentially complex services.

Modernization

Public Cloud Market to Exceed $236B by 2020

This dramatic uptick reflects the massive IT modernization effort amid private-sector companies and, to a lesser extent, government.

Emerging Tech

Facebook’s DC Office Seeks Analyst to Combat Hate Groups, Terrorist Content

Candidates should "be excited to delve into the details of understanding and mitigating propaganda networks employed by militant organizations.”