Cybersecurity
Want to Avoid Another OPM? Spend More, Industry Says
The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity budget – projected at approximately $900 million in the coming fiscal year – is only 75 percent of what two of the nation’s leading banks will spend on cyber in 2016.
Modernization
GSA Wants to Make It Easier for Agencies to Get to the Cloud
The agency wants to create a cloud portfolio of products and services that can help agencies migrate to new tech.
Digital Government
Inside the Pentagon’s Plans to Revamp the Global Command and Control System
The modernized system aims for lower costs through agile development, open standards and open source code, and applications designed with the user interface in mind.
Modernization
Is Cloud Computing Saving the Pentagon Money? Watchdog Still Doesn’t Know
DOD lacks a standardized definition for cloud computing and an inventory to track cloud-based contracts.
Digital Government
Lawmaker: 'Encryption is Going to be a Big Issue in 2016'
Fueled by recent events and the 2016 election, expect the debate over encryption to heat up next year.
Digital Government
VA Names New Deputy IT Chief
Ron Thompson, a U.S. Army veteran, has more than 25 years of experience in both government and the private sector.
Emerging Tech
FITARA: How IT Reform Became ‘Sexy’
FITARA is finally beginning to get the kind of attention from Congress, overseers and the public that one might expect of an area in which the government spends upward of $80 billion annually.
Digital Government
FITARA: Progress at the 1-Year Mark
Barely a year old, the Federal Information Technology and Acquisition Reform Act is changing how agencies and their chief information officers procure, manage and operate technology.
Emerging Tech
Tomorrow’s Internet of Things Will Rely on Today’s Aging Networks – and That’s a Problem
U.S. Chief Information Officer Tony Scott said government-owned networks have had a hard time keeping up with the rapid pace of change in technology.
Emerging Tech
Amid Concern Over Nation’s Weather-Forecasting System, Congress Eyes Commercial Solutions
A legislator linked the rise of commercial vendors to the hurdles faced by NOAA as it operates two massive weather satellite operations.
Emerging Tech
3 Things We Learned This Week from the White House’s Top Tech Officials
U.S. Chief Information Officer Tony Scott and Thomas Kalil, deputy director for policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, dropped a few notable soundbites and policy snippets.
Emerging Tech
Trump Wants to Shut Down the Internet
It was designed to survive a nuclear war and not to rely upon a single system, so “shutting it down” would take a gargantuan effort.
Emerging Tech
In-Q-Tel Invests in Firm That Says It Can Retrieve Evidence from Encrypted Devices
In-Q-Tel, the IC’s technology investment arm, did not disclose how much funding it will provide the Canadian-based Magnet Forensics.
Emerging Tech
Pentagon Aims to Revamp Global Command and Control System
DOD is looking specifically at deploying data in cloud-and mobile-based environments.
Emerging Tech
The White House is Prepping for the Most Violent Space Weather Imaginable
Here’s the plan for responding to a destructive solar storm.
Digital Government
Why the U.S. Postal Service Has the Best Customer Service in Government
The agency's "customer-obsessed" approach ranks highest in the federal government alongside the National Park Service.
Emerging Tech
Pentagon Watchdog: Show Us the Cost Benefit Analysis of Cloud
A forthcoming DOD IG audit may soon shed light on the extent the Pentagon and its components perform cost benefit analysis before acquiring cloud services.
Emerging Tech
Next Step in DOD-VA Health Records Sharing: Doctors’ Scribbles and Other ‘Unstructured’ Data
One of the most important aspects of DOD’s future electronic health records system is its ability to pull in and display unstructured data in raw text from electronic health records.
Digital Government
National Science Foundation, Agriculture Release CIO-Boosting FITARA Plans
All agencies must publicly post their plans by Dec. 31.
Digital Government
Pentagon Ready to Certify Health Records Interoperability with VA
DOD says it has surpassed congressional requirements for sharing data with VA.
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