The 25 federal agencies that engage the public the most have released comprehensive customer experience action plans in accordance with the President’s Management Agenda and…
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The Veterans Affairs Department officially named Kshemendra Paul chief data officer and executive director for data governance and analytics, the agency announced Monday. With extensive…
“I don’t think that [Edward] Snowden was a patriot,” Barack Obama said in 2013 after the former NSA contractor leaked revelations of mass surveillance to a small…
A prototype aerial tanker — an unmanned one – took flight for the first time on Thursday, a key step toward an autonomous aircraft that…
Researchers at the National Security Agency are using artificial intelligence to characterize strange behaviors in small satellites to understand if they’ve secretly been brought under…
The pervasiveness of people wearing in-ear headphones, especially on college campuses, intrigued computer scientist Zhanpeng Jin. “We have so many students walking around with speakers…
When taxpayers use online systems, the IRS really wants to make sure the people accessing information are who they say they are. The agency has…
The Homeland Security Department wants to offer its cybersecurity personnel more competitive pay, and it needs help setting those rates. The department recently began seeking…
The Agriculture Department aims to hear from more than 2 million people through a robust information collection initiative to gain data on customer experience and…
Deepfakes—video clips convincingly altered to make it look like people said or did something they didn’t—have been called the newest threat to democracy, a dangerous…
The U.S. federal government includes over 430 departments, agencies and subagencies comprised of millions of employees and tens of millions of devices. And yet, in…
The House on Thursday approved 301-123 a stopgap spending measure that will keep agencies afloat through Nov. 21 and avoid a shutdown in October. The measure…
In aviation, the black box is a source of knowledge: a receptacle of crucial data that might help investigators understand catastrophe. In technology, a black…
The Uighurs, a Muslim minority ethnic group of around 12 million in northwest China, are required by the police to carry their smartphones and IDs…
Lack of permanent leadership in inspector general offices across the government has been a persistent issue that puts federal oversight and investigations at risk, witnesses…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Thursday came out in favor of an appropriations bill that would provide $250 million to federal election security…
As Congress tries to write legislation governing groundbreaking technological advancements from drones to social media to government IT, a group of lawmakers is admitting they…
The Food and Drug Administration introduced earlier this year a modernization initiative—deemed “A New Era of Food Safety”—to advance its use of evolving technologies like…
A pair of lawmakers demanded the Trump administration’s new national security adviser reinstate an executive-level cybersecurity position that his predecessor John Bolton eliminated last year.…
Conversations about privacy concerns in recent years have often focused on the online space, given high profile data breaches and repeated revelations of tech companies’ …