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. […]
The Nanotechnology-Inspired Grand Challenge for Future Computing asks participants to create a computer that can learn from data and remember information while using the same amount of energy as a human brain. The challenge is a collaboration among several agencies including the National Institute of Science and Technology, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, and members of the Intelligence Community. […]
The White House issued a memorandum requiring that agencies take new steps to improve their procurement and management of mobile devices and services. […]
The White House launched a new effort to help increase the use of drones and showcased how government agencies have become a proving ground for a wide array of new drone concepts and technologies. Here are 13 interesting facts that came out of the workshop. […]
Michael Huerta, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, announced at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Workshop on Drones and the Future of Aviation that the FAA has commissioned an Unmanned Aircraft Safety Team and a Drone Advisory Committee. […]
he White House released the Data Center Optimization Initiative, which requires agencies to consolidate inefficient infrastructure, update existing facilities, boost security, save money, and transition to cloud services or inter-agency shared services. […]
The Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) need to increase their oversight of agencies implementing the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act), according to a recent GAO report. […]
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy hosted a Cyber Security Competitions Workshop, where it invited participants from national cybersecurity competitions to help promote cyber education. […]
The Presidential Directive that defined roles and responsibilities of Federal agencies in the event of a cyber incident is being applauded as a step in the right direction by private sector cybersecurity companies. […]
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released its National Strategic Computing Initiative Strategic Plan, which outlines its effort to improve high-performance computing. […]
The White House announced that it’s collaborating with Federal agencies and private companies to increase the use of electric cars in the United States to combat climate change. […]
The White House on Tuesday took a step forward in coordinating Federal response to cyber incidents in the U.S. with the announcement of a Presidential Policy Directive on United States Cyber Incident Coordination. […]
The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) has far-reaching government benefits as well as hurdles that must be addressed to ensure its success, according to authors of the research paper “The Data Act: Vision and Value.” […]
The White House released its $400 million Advanced Wireless Research Initiative, led by the National Science Foundation, to enable the use of four city-scale testing platforms for advanced wireless research. […]
The European Union announced that the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, an international data privacy agreement, has been adopted by its member states. […]
The White House released the National Privacy Research Strategy on Friday, which allows research on how people understand privacy, how to define privacy needs, how to gain solutions to privacy issues, and how to diminish the consequences of privacy violations. […]
Your job may end up being done by a computer in the not-so-distant future, according to participants in a White House-hosted discussion. The discussion addressed how the future of automation can provide many social and economic advantages, but could also be a major disadvantage for those who would lose their jobs to robots. […]
The White House announced that it’s launching the Data Driven Justice initiative, which intends to use data to decrease prison recidivism and improve response and care for at-risk and mentally ill citizens. […]
Government IT has a problem with planning better solutions, not coming up with ideas for those solutions, according to Federal CIO Tony Scott. “Ideas are not the problem in Washington; Washington is full of ideas. What Washington doesn’t have…is a good implementation plan for those ideas,” Scott said at a Citrix cybersecurity event. […]
The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy released a request for information, concerning both the potential and the risks associated with artificial intelligence. […]
Following this week’s announcement of the Smart City Challenge winner, the White House is prompting a call to action for state and local governments to further build on smart city initiatives. […]