An amendment to CISPA that would have prevented employers from asking their employees to release their Facebook passwords has been blocked, The Huffington Post reports.
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy wants to move forward with strategic sourcing efforts, and has delivered a set of proposals for how and where to expand the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative.
Contracting officials across government do not have enough information related to contractors' procurement policy, and this needs to change, according to Joe Jordan, administrator for federal procurement policy at OMB.
Now that the 2013 spending bill is completed, agencies have been submitting requests to the OMB to reprogram funds, softening the effect that sequestration would have on them.
Georgia Tech researchers have found that, by using big data, video games can adapt the level of challenge to a user's performance, which is tracked over time. Turns out, this kind of big data is also useful with training simulations in the Army.
Through an interview it had with HP Autonomy, Cloud Pro learned that big data isn't all about social media; in fact, it has some time-saving company communication applications.
The response to the bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line provided a great example of coordination and planning, but access to patient records is still a sticking point.
Inspector Jones has launched to help enterprise customers find the right cloud vendors. They say they've done the searching for the best vendors, so that you don't have to.
With Microsoft just launching its cloud service, some believe the company has mistimed the market; however, the company remains confident that its service will rival that of its biggest competitor, Amazon.
With the president having the power to make a preventive cyber strike in the case of an imminent threat, new questions and concerns are being raised surrounding on how the United States should proceed.
Lockheed Martin is going to host a cyber defense exercise that will pit emerging cyber leaders from the U.S. and Canadian military service academies against experts from the National Security Agency as part of the annual Cyber Defense Exercise.
We offer a roundup of some of the top stories covering the release of President Obama's 2014 budget proposal, including the possible impact on the IT budget, GSA, VA and major defense spending.
Former CIO at NASA, Linda Cureton, has decided to leave the agency and start her own IT consulting and lifecycle management firm, Muse Technologies Inc.
