Shaun Donovan, director of the Office of Management and Budget, has said the Obama administration plans to set up a new federal privacy council as part of its efforts to protect privacy and
MoreA Naval Research Laboratory-run unclassified network was a target of hackers who used a zero-day exploit to access the network, FCW reported Thursday. Sean Lyngaas writes U.S. Navy Capt. Mark Bruington, the NRL’s commanding
MoreThe First Responder Network Authority currently works to develop a bring-your-own-device policy that covers support for personal devices on the nationwide public safety broadband network. FirstNet said Nov. 23Â its goal is to
MoreA Deltek report predicts the U.S. government will increase spending on commercial information security products and services by more than 5 percent per year on average from fiscal 2015 to fiscal 2020. Federal
MoreThe Chinese government announced it has arrested the hackers officials believe to be responsible for the Office of Personnel Management‘s database breach in early 2015, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Ellen Nakashima
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The Office of Personnel Management has unveiled an online verification center for potential victims of a massive cyber attack on OPM’s federal and contractor employee background check systems. Acting OPM Director Beth Cobert wrote
MoreFederal CIO Tony Scott has announced the winning teams in the inaugural CIO Council’s IT Solutions Challenge, which sought innovative solutions to federal IT and IT acquisition challenges. “The solutions proposed through the 2015
MoreThe National Institute of Standards and Technology has built a robotic arm meant to calibrate high-frequency antennas for remote sensing, imaging, radar and communications equipment. NIST said Monday it aims to characterize antenna
MoreThe Office of Management and Budget has instructed the General Services Administration to develop a single vehicle for all federal agencies to contract outside cybersecurity professionals in the event of a breach,
MoreThe General Services Administration‘s 18F organization has created a reference guide to help other government agencies adopt lean principles for their digital tool or service development strategy. Nick Brethauer and Colin MacArthur, user-experience designers
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