The White House has ordered a “full review” of hacks related to the most recent presidential election, according to Lisa Monaco, President Obama’s adviser for counterterrorism and homeland security. […]

The state of Georgia said it found evidence of an attempted hack on its voter registration database by a Department of Homeland Security device. […]

People who design explosive detection devices may have something to learn from their canine counterparts, according to Matthew Staymates, a mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. […]

Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act of fiscal year 2017, which includes a provision to separate U.S. Cyber Command from the National Security Agency. Cyber Command would focus on developing cyber weapons and use them against adversaries online, whereas the NSA would focus on gathering intelligence in the digital sphere. […]

President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination for CIA director has advocated for mass data collection from U.S. citizens and has criticized Trump’s foreign policy strategies. Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., urged Congress to allow the National Security Agency to restart its bulk collection of metadata while adding that to financial and “lifestyle” information that would all be searchable in one database. […]

MeriTalk compiles a weekly roundup of contracts and other industry activity. Here’s what happened this week in the Federal Information Technology community. […]

The Department of Transportation’s F+ on the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act scorecard does not reflect all of the agency’s compliance work, according to a DOT spokesperson who asked to remain anonymous. […]

A majority of the 24 major agencies defined under the CFO Act are expected to meet the deadline to begin reporting their spending information. […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs this week launched a new website to raise awareness of the agency’s Digital Health Platform–a cloud-based approach to integrating veterans health data to produce what the agency calls real-time, analytics-driven, personalized care. […]

Forty-eight percent of the nearly 2.1 million 2016 U.S. high school graduates who took the ACT expressed an interest in science, technology, engineering, or math majors or careers. […]

The General Services Administration announced a shared services vision that aims to reduce risk, eliminate redundancy, and maximize government buying power. […]

Despite new policies designed to give chief information officers more spending power, some Federal CIOs don’t see any improvement in acquiring the technology they need to keep their systems secure. […]

Financial reporting experts advocated for the adoption of a standard business reporting method that would make it easier for businesses to both submit data to the government and use the government’s publicly available information. […]

Luke McCormack, the chief information officer at the Department of Homeland Security, submitted his resignation today. […]

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube are creating a joint database of digital fingerprints for violent terrorist imagery that they have removed from their platforms. […]

One agency received an overall F on its Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act scorecard—and it was not the agency that has failed the past two times. […]

The Federal government has continued investments into research of quantum computing in order to stay ahead of the progress made by other countries. […]

More than half of current university data analytics programs have been formed in the last six years, according to a recent report from software maker Tableau. […]

The General Services Administration has reached a software acquisition agreement with Adobe to provide streamlined data security and electronic solutions for government, enabling agencies to meet the requirements of Federal information security and electronic government policy. […]

A Kickstarter campaign is raising money to create reflective glasses that block facial recognition software from identifying individuals on surveillance cameras, and the creator is braced for controversy. […]

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., is concerned that Federal Chief Information Officers are struggling to make sure their agencies follow the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act. […]

University of South Florida has a new offering for current students and alumni. Thanks to a partnership with Virginia-based tech company Revature, students and alumni can participate in an online coding boot camp for free. […]

The House last week passed the fiscal 2017 Intelligence Authorization Act, which includes a wide variety of cyber-related programs and policies. Although HR 6393 must still make its way through the Senate, the bill authorizes spending on everything from recruiting and retaining technology workers throughout the intelligence community and the FBI, to fighting online propaganda by ISIS and Russia, and cybersecurity threats facing U.S. seaports. […]

Computer Science Education Week began Monday with plans to rack up schools that plan to teach students one hour of code. […]

The White House was able to obtain its new dollar bill augmented reality app, 1600, for free from London-based Nexus Studios. The app allows users to point their cameras at a dollar bill, which will transform into a 3-D version of the White House. […]

President-elect Donald Trump should appoint an ambassador for cybersecurity within his first 180 days in office, according to the President’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. […]

Google Chromebooks are gaining in classroom popularity over Apple’s iPad, according to a recent survey from Front Row Education, a creator of individualized math and ELA resources. […]

The General Services Administration’s in-house technology service, 18F, has announced new vulnerability disclosure policies for its parent organization, the Technology Transformation Service, to enable security researchers to more easily report vulnerabilities on TTS-operated systems. […]

The Idaho Pathways to Early Career High School Network links high school students in the state with career coaches through Skype and text messages. […]

Students at all grade levels have difficulty distinguishing facts online, according to a report from the Stanford History Education Group and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation. “Overall, young people’s ability to reason about the information on the Internet can be summed up in one word: bleak,” the report stated. […]