Despite the short amount of time guaranteed to him as the Federal Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Brig. Gen. Gregory Touhill is optimistic about his ability to remain in his position through the presidential transition and has many plans that he hopes to carry through that transition. […]
The White House announced Friday that the Global Connect Initiative is working to connect 1.5 billion people to the Internet worldwide by 2020. […]
Open data, if used and funded correctly, could improve understanding and outcomes for sexual assault and domestic violence survivors, according to experts. […]
The White House Office of Management and Budget released a draft Category Management Circular, which will enable agencies to make purchases as a group rather than as an individual agency. […]
Though government regulation can sometimes be difficult to deal with, technology innovators should be working with government to solve the world’s biggest issues, according to panelists at South by South Lawn (SXSL) on Monday. “I think [with] a lot of the hardest problems, you have to work with the government; you can’t work independently,” said […]
The White House has launched the Lock Down Your Login awareness campaign to focus on strong authentication technologies that are available online as part of the Cybersecurity National Action Plan. […]
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said the “Obama administration has failed” in cybersecurity, and laid out his own plan to strengthen U.S. cyber efforts. […]
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy asked for public opinion on whether and how to obtain and use data. The OSTP said that data portability should give people the ability to keep their information that a service stores for them online, gain access to it, and use it however they want. […]
White House officials championed the Obama administration’s programs and advances in open data at the first White House Open Data Summit as a means of inspiring further open data innovations in the coming years. […]
The most important components for smart cities are engaging communities and forging partnerships, according to Federal officials. […]
The White House Office of Management and Budget collected initial data from agencies to gauge the impact of the Generation Indigenous Initiative. The initiative seeks to improve educational outcomes for native students, increase access to quality teacher housing, increase Internet access, support the Indian Child Welfare Act, reduce teen suicide, and grow tribal control of criminal justice. […]
The White House launched the Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness (PREP) and Joint Declaration on Harnessing the Data Revolution for Climate Resilience to use open data to combat climate change. […]
The White House released a progress report on its third Open Government National Action Plan and added new commitments to the plan. […]
The White House Office of Management and Budget issued updated guidance for the jurisdiction and duties of Senior Agency Officials for Privacy (SAOP), giving them more authority. […]
Data scientists should have a strong moral compass in order to handle big data, according to DJ Patil, deputy chief technology officer for data policy and chief data scientist at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. […]
President Obama announced Wednesday that the White House will be hosting a Computer Science for All summit, and that agencies and industry partners are acting in support of computer science (CS) education. […]
The White House’s Research and Development Strategic Plan will ensure that Federal cybersecurity capabilities continue to improve into the next administration, according to Greg Shannon, assistant director for cybersecurity strategy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. […]
The White House named Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Gregory Touhill as the Federal government’s first chief information security officer, bringing to a close an executive search that has gone on for more than seven months. […]
Chinese cyberattacks against the United States have declined by about 80 percent, according to FireEye. […]
Mikey Dickerson, administrator at the U.S. Digital Service (USDS), said that the hiring process at the Federal agency has improved since its start in 2014. […]
Ensuring the trustworthiness of the Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems consists of a variety of factors, not all of them absolutes, according to panelists at a National Institute of Standards and Technology workshop. […]
Federal spending on contractor-supplied IT products and services will decline slightly from $99.8 billion in fiscal year 2016 to $98.3 billion in FY 2021, according to a recent report from Deltek. […]
Six Democratic senators have authored a letter to President Obama, urging him while he is at the G-20 Summit in China on Sunday and Monday to address cyberattacks on financial institutions. […]
President Obama named the winners of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. The 213 winners are K-12 teachers who come from all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. territories, and the Department of Defense Education Activity schools. […]
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a call for action for educators and agencies to join in an effort to meet the goals of STEM for All through the use of active learning. […]
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a report that shows that public sector prize competitions for innovative technology in the 2015 fiscal year have increased in capability and impact. […]
The United States Digital Service’s second birthday is Thursday and even though it lauds two of its best accomplishments as expanding an administrator’s tie collection and having the most unique décor in the White House, it has improved the usability of several of the Federal government’s online projects. […]
The Obama administration is working on a plan to elevate the status of the United States Cyber Command and separate it from the National Security Agency. […]
The White House released the Federal Source Code Policy to help with access to custom software code created for or by the Federal government. The policy allows source code to be made for sharing and re-use across all agencies, since several agencies have already begun using custom-made source code without restrictions, according to the policy. […]
The White House United States Digital Service team launched a website on the General Services Administration’s Acquisition Gateway called TechFAR Hub, which walks agencies through the process of digital service acquisition. […]