Microsoft unveiled two product offerings Monday that give it a play in offering cloud services at the “tactical edge”—areas where network connectivity is poor, mobility…
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Ten years ago, the lion’s share of America’s cyber threats were narrowly aimed at penetrating government software perimeters. Consequently, the U.S. government responded by introducing targeted…
Most states aren’t even halfway along integrating geospatial data into elections, despite expecting voter registration systems to support such information within five years, according to…
I used to think we didn’t have enough strategic documents guiding U.S. cyber policy. Now I think we have at least one too many. In…
Humans innately use facial recognition from the moment we are born. Now our tech devices are mimicking our own facial recognition skills to provide tremendous…
A bill reintroduced in the Senate on Friday would overhaul the security clearance process and force the government to start chipping away at a backlog of more…
People expect that 911 will always be available, until they can’t get through. One software executive says public safety departments can learn from the private…
“We at Apple believe that privacy is a fundamental human right,” Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, said in a privacy-conference keynote last year in Brussels. “But we also…
Many furloughed federal employees returning from the 35-day shutdown came back to a mess—in some cases literally. And for many feds, being on hiatus due…
In recent weeks, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been brainstorming ways to end the practice of shutting down federal agencies if Congress…
The Pentagon took the next step in bidding out its Defense Enterprise Office Solutions contract Friday, releasing a draft request for quotations for an enterprise…
The General Services Administration wants industry to weigh in on a proposed policy change that would create a pool of on-call contractors for the Centers…
The federal government—so often derided for being behind the technical curve—is magnitudes ahead of every other sector in at least one domain: email authentication and…
Meet Jane Doe. Jane is 25 years old, grew up in Anywhere, USA and has been working as a cybersecurity analyst for the U.S. government since…
Less than a week after President Trump ended the longest-ever government shutdown, he suggested he is willing to force another partial government shutdown on Feb. 15…
After less than a month on Capitol Hill, Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nev., will take over congressional oversight of the Veterans Affairs Department’s multibillion-dollar electronic health…
The Census Bureau expects bad actors to target the 2020 count with the same online misinformation tactics that plagued the 2016 election, and it’s building…
A recent trend has been to set up an innovation office to serve as a catalyst for new ideas. These offices can be helpful starting…
The 35-day government shutdown cost thousands of small- and mid-size businesses nationwide that supply services or technology to the federal government $2.3 billion in revenue…
Ever since the government shutdown ended last Friday, Yvette Hicks said her cable company, her electric company, the bank that processes her auto-loan payments, and…