On the heels of the Education Department’s release of a set of transparency guidelines for student data, two senators introduced legislation Wednesday to protect student privacy and…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is planning to host its second privacy engineering workshop, aimed at providing guidance to system design and privacy engineers who handle…
While Congress continues to wrangle over funding provisions for fiscal year 2015, which begins Oct. 1, the White House Office of Management and Budget isn’t wasting any…
Johnny Overcast, Samsung’s director of government sales, dropped by for this edition of TechTake. We talked about government mobility trends, if agencies can find a happy medium…
As the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act awaits action on the Senate floor, four members of Congress are taking a different approach to federal IT procurement reform. Rep.…
The Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs is looking for a new chief information officer, according to a job posting on USAJobs.gov. According to DOJ sources, Office of…
NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade, Md. (Photo: Wikipedia) A report released Tuesday looks beyond the privacy implications of the National Security Agency’s PRISM program, saying that…
More than a half dozen agencies and about 20 private companies gathered for a White House-sponsored demonstration day Tuesday to highlight new technology ideas aimed helping people maintain…
Connecting cloud systems to one another to improve load balancing and data backup can often take days to complete, depending on bandwidth and setup requirements. But a new proof-of-concept…