The intelligence community is working to build biometric identification systems that can single out individuals from hundreds of yards away or more, a feat that’s…
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The Health and Human Services Department’s decision to wind down its acquisition services for outside agencies has left customers scrambling to fill the void and…
cThe Energy Department officially opened nominations for America’s first National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee, according to a solicitation published in the Federal Register Friday. “We…
Over the next year to year-and-a-half, 76 Veterans Affairs Department staff working at medical facilities across the country will participate in an immersive training program…
While it is a well-worn adage that the federal government is slow to modernize their IT environments, facts today are telling a different story. Not…
Big technology companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google aren’t the only ones facing huge political concerns about using citizen data: So is Congress. Reports by…
My 14-year-old son just started high school, and he does not have his own smartphone. When I tell people this, I get the same face…
The Interior Department has to cover a lot of ground to meet its mission, and in the years ahead, officials expect to lean more heavily…
Will Hurd intends to meet a few weighty goals before his final term in the House ends in 14 months—all of which he hopes will…
A notice published in the Federal Register Friday indicates the General Services Administration wants to help high impact service provider (HISP) agencies comply with updates…
Before the end of 2020, organizations doing business with the government—from vendors to grantees—will have a new unique number by which they will be identified,…
In July, election officials across the country received a mass email from NormShield, a Virginia-based cybersecurity company few had heard of. The company informed the…
The team specifically examined the effects of employers enhancing the lunches of bus drivers in China with fresh fruit and found that it reduced depression…
Like Detroit with automobiles or Pittsburgh with steel, Silicon Valley is synonymous with technology. In her new book The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of…
The ever-increasing use of mobile devices in government agencies means mobile threats will continue to proliferate and federal employees must remain vigilant. Nation-state and e-crime…
Frustrated by the U.S. Air Force’s slow fielding of propeller-driven attack planes to support ground troops, one lawmaker raised the possibility of putting the project…
Government insiders regard application programming interfaces, or APIs, as “future enablers” that can accelerate technological advancement and empower both the public and private sectors to…
The General Services Administration on Thursday awarded the first task orders under a multibillion dollar contract to overhaul the government’s payroll and scheduling systems. The…
The Defense Department is not abiding by a federal mandate to promote the use of open source software and make common code more readily available…
Almost seven years to the day after the last major revision, the Trump administration Thursday released the third iteration of the Trusted Internet Connection policy,…