Emerging Tech

Agencies' Grasp of Agile is ‘All Over The Map,’ One CTO Says

Developing software in an incremental fashion may mean rethinking contracting and personnel's duties, an Excella Consulting's chief technology officer said.

Digital Government

An Insider’s View of Trump’s American Technology Council Meeting

While a White House official said all the right things, Code for America Founder Jen Pahlka wanted to see more spine from tech executives.

Emerging Tech

Congressional AI Caucus Wants to Separate Fact From Fiction

Rep. John Delaney, D-Md., wants to educate Congress about artificial intelligence.

Emerging Tech

Consumers Think The Government’s Voice Should Be Female

People would use a government version of Siri or Alexa as long as it sounded human, a new survey shows.

Digital Government

How Bots Can Help DARPA's Confidence Problem

The Pentagon R&D unit wants to automate the process of assessing scientific studies.

Modernization

White House Artifacts to Be Digitized Using Amazon Web Services

The White House Historical Association is building a virtual tour app for the White House.

Artificial Intelligence

Agencies Are a Step Closer to Creating Their Own Siri

Siri, Alexa and Facebook chatbots might soon be handling common customer service roles in government.

Emerging Tech

Trump Asks Tech Companies: How Can Government Help You?

As "tech week" continues, companies selling drones and other emerging technology briefed the White House on their challenges.

Digital Government

An Insider's Take on What Went Wrong with DHS' Agile Contract

Former Digital Services Head Eric Hysen took to Medium to share his thoughts on FLASH’s failure.

Digital Government

Report: Most Government Sites Fail Security Audit

About 60 percent of federal sites failed the Online Trust Alliance's trustworthiness test.

Digital Government

Think Beyond Modernization, Tech Execs Told Trump

Silicon Valley bigwigs discussed machine learning, open data and the need for government spending on research.

Cybersecurity

Survey: Americans Worry More About National Security Than Hacking

Consumers in most other nations surveyed were more concerned about bank card fraud and identity theft.

Digital Government

Kushner Finds Government Open to Change—At Least in Tech

The president's son-in-law and senior adviser targets data centers and floppy disks.

Emerging Tech

6 Companies Score $258M in Supercomputing Contracts

The vendors are expected to build out the hardware, software and applications for an exascale computing system 50 times faster than today’s most powerful computers.

Digital Government

Per OMB, Agencies No Longer Have to Report on Y2K Plans

The White House nixed several outdated IT directives to federal agencies.

Digital Government

How Policy Could Advance Open Data in Government

Data.gov's Program Manager Hyon Kim says the OPEN Government Data Act could boost participation.

Digital Government

Trump's Innovation Office In Close Touch With USDS

White House tech adviser Chris Liddell attends U.S. Digital Service meetings multiple times a week.

Digital Government

Interior Department's Plan to Stop Drones from Blocking Firefighters

The "Know Where Not To Go" data set tells drone operators where wildfire response might be happening so they can avoid flying there.

Digital Government

American Technology Council to Meet with Apple, Amazon, Microsoft CEOs

President Donald Trump’s American Technology Council, focused on modernizing government technology, will hold its inaugural meeting June 19.