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Federal agencies have until the end of the fiscal year to award contracts to obtain and modernize telecommunication services but at least one agency wants…
Despite efforts from nearly every sector, the critical shortage of IT workers in the United States continues to grow. The Computing Technology Industry Association’s latest…
OAKLAND, Calif.—On the first Thursday of every month, about a dozen people meet in a dim, sepia-toned room in Oakland’s City Hall. This is the…
The U.S. Postal Service is once again America’s favorite federal agency, winning the title in a Gallup survey for the third consecutive year. About three-quarters…
The Pentagon’s research office is working to build tools that automatically check military software applications for potential vulnerabilities. Today, the department relies heavily on human…
House Democratic committee leaders recently introduced a comprehensive election security bill that would commit more than $1 billion in grants to secure America’s election systems…
U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, or CSB, needs to better define its policies and procedures around data, access and incident response to toughen…
From ubiquitous cellphone cameras to high-end surveillance equipment, the U.S. is on the cusp of having an organic mass surveillance ecosystem. But with the range…
More indicators of shaky contracting practices at the Federal Emergency Management Agency became public this week when an inspector faulted the agency’s handling of two contracts for procuring…
The Pentagon is creating a matchmaking service to steer vetted venture capitalists toward small firms developing potentially valuable military technologies. It’s the Defense Department’s latest…
We recently celebrated the first anniversary of the President’s Management Agenda. From the Centers of Excellence to the Technology Modernization Fund to the draft Federal…
Now that New York City has adopted congestion pricing in an effort to rein in traffic and raise revenue desperately needed to upgrade public transportation,…
Facebook is often sarcastically described as a platform for sharing baby pictures. When I log in, I do see some of those—but many of the babies…
Senators from both sides of the political aisle introduced new legislation Friday to confront cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the federal government’s information technology procurement and lifecycle…
While government leaders across the globe are excited about the unleashing artificial intelligence in their organizations, most are struggling with deploying it for their missions…
The intelligence community’s research arm wants to train algorithms to track people across sprawling video surveillance networks, and it needs more data to do it.…
The number of high-risk security incidents involving tax preparers and software jumped by 50 percent from 2017 to 2018, from 212 to 336. But, despite…
The ability of the federal workforce to press on in spite of “the shutdown and all that noise” was “a remarkable gift to the country,” said…
President Trump will nominate Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive and the No. 2 civilian official at the Pentagon, as his defense secretary, the White…