The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is exploring tech sprints as a means to accelerate innovation across its regulatory and compliance landscape—and it wants the public…
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A Treasury Department Inspector General audit released this week “identified significant vulnerabilities” within the IRS’ revamped bring-your-own-device program. The audit, conducted across several IRS offices…
Argument is everywhere. From the kitchen table to the boardroom to the highest echelons of power, we all use argument to persuade, investigate new ideas,…
Cybersecurity pros in government and industry need to get a broader community of people engaged in fighting digital threats, but “selling fear” shouldn’t be their…
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is putting together a blanket purchase agreement for 15 cloud vendors—large and small—to support one of the service’s…
The federal government filed a lawsuit against whistleblower Edward Snowden on Tuesday, arguing he violated non-disclosure agreements with NSA and CIA by not submitting his…
A Senate panel on Tuesday advanced a fiscal 2020 spending bill that would, among other things, block the Trump administration from implementing its plan to…
The demand for cybersecurity experts is skyrocketing around the globe, and that doesn’t bode well for the federal government. Salary caps, lengthy onboarding and rigid…
Customs and Border Protection collects a wealth of information through the technologies deployed at the ports of entry, all of which is stored in a…
It seems like everything under the sun has a full month now where we are either supposed to study the concept, raise awareness about a…
The federal government wasted $4 billion over the last three government shutdowns, according to a new report, including $3.7 billion that went to federal employees who…
The White House will soon issue guidance on how agencies should approach regulating specific applications of artificial intelligence under their purview, according to the federal…
If you thought that flying cars were just for Marty McFly or maybe Rick Deckard, the U.S. Air Force has some good news for you.…
The Treasury Department released a Cloud Acquisition Roadmap outlining the current state of the agency’s cloud architecture—namely, a hybrid cloud running Amazon Web Services—and the…
Artificial intelligence, machine learning and other associated technologies aren’t a panacea for the federal government, but strategic investments in those technologies are becoming almost mandatory…
A bipartisan pair of senators wants the Federal Communications Commission to consider banning two Chinese telecommunications providers from U.S. networks. Citing national security concerns, Senate…
The Agriculture Department wants access to comprehensive data across all America’s food retailers—with specific details down to the individual store level—to assess issues around the…
Chris Lynch arrived at the Pentagon as an exotic outsider — the department’s resident hoodie-wearer, as Ash Carter put it. Now he and two co-founders…
Confirmed by the Senate in August, Office of Federal Procurement Policy Administrator Michael Wooten laid out a set of tech-heavy priorities Monday as he prepares…
According to The Verge, the Air Force squadron sent nine updates to both ESA and SpaceX in the 72 hours before the satellites were expected to make their…