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| May 25, 2022 | WhiteSource, now Mend, unveils automated remediation to improve security | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Application security vendor, WhiteSource, today a... |
| Aug 27, 2021 | The stars are aligning for federal IT open source software adoption | Venky Adivi Contributor
Venky Adivi is director of strategic capture and proposal management at Canonical, publisher of Ubuntu.
In recent years, the private sector has been spurning proprietary software in favor of open source software and ... |
| Mar 4, 2021 | How I Got Here: Wayne MacKenzie’s path from TV meteorologist to software engineer | The journey we take through our careers can sometimes be unexpected.
Fresh out of college, I was guilty of putting some leaders in the field of meteorology on a pedestal, thinking that their career path was easy and straightforward. Perhaps... |
| Feb 17, 2021 | How to land a tech job in the Biden admin, as it aims to spend $200 million to hire 'hundreds' | As applications for government tech jobs reached a new high, President Biden and Vice President Harris are expected to put more support behind groups like the US Digital Service and 18F. Drew Angerer/Getty Images This story is available exc... |
| Dec 2, 2020 | Advice for the next CMS administrator’s first 100 days | This week four years ago, I was working for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, helping lead the national Medicaid program. The Affordable Care Act was hitting its stride. The number of uninsured people was at a historic low. Th... |
| Jan 24, 2019 | Почему основная задача дизайна — не дизайн Статьи редакции | Перевод статьи директора информационного проектирования Normative.com Карла Фаста.
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В чём заключается основная задача дизайна? Теперь, когда совершенно разные организации стали заниматься пользовательским о... |
| Jan 17, 2019 | These are all the federal HTTPS websites that’ll expire soon because of the US government shutdown | We like to think of ourselves as nerds here at TechCrunch, which is why we’re bringing you this.
During the government shutdown, security experts noticed several federal websites were throwing back browser errors because the TLS certificate... |
| Jan 11, 2019 | Some US government websites won’t load after HTTPS certificates expire during shutdown | In a government shutdown, everything deemed non-essential stops. As we found out, renewing the certificates on its websites is considered non-essential.
Several government sites are currently inaccessible or blocked by most browsers after t... |
| Aug 28, 2018 | Power Moves: Second time’s a charm for Social Tables ‘boomerang employee’ | Power Moves is a column where we chart the comings and goings of talent across the region. Got a new hire, new gig or promotion? Email [email protected] and let us know.There are no second chances in life, except in #dctech.
Social Tables wel... |
| Apr 18, 2018 | Cloud.gov makes Cloud Foundry easier to adopt for government agencies | At the Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston, the team behind the U.S. government’s cloud.gov application platform announced that it is now a certified Cloud Foundry platform that is guaranteed to be compatible with other certified providers, like... |
| Feb 27, 2017 | Why Federal IT Will Never Be Secure | Few stories have depressed me as much as this report from earlier this month in the Washington Post. It looks to be normal fare -- a news report about an IG report that finds some aspects of a Federal agency lacking. And yet ... what I see ... |
| Feb 6, 2017 | FBI axes FOIA requests by email, so dust off your fax machine | As tech-savvy government efforts like 18F and the USDS take technological strides forward, other parts of the government are abandoning modern technology altogether.
Starting next month, the FBI will no longer accept Freedom of Information ... |
| Jan 19, 2017 | Matt Cutts steps down from Google, steps up at the U.S. Digital Service | After dipping his toes in government work last year, Google Search guru Matt Cutts is now stepping away from Google in a more permanent way. Cutts, who has wrestled spam and SEO at Google since 2000, joined the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) i... |
| Jan 19, 2017 | All new executive branch .gov domains will ditch HTTP, enforce HTTPS | Government websites just took a serious step toward robust security. Today, the Federal Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council announced that all new executive branch domains moving forward will use HTTPS, the secure, encrypted alternativ... |
| Jan 4, 2017 | Federal government improves encrypted web connections, but misses goal | For over a year, the U.S. Government has worked to establish secure connections to all federal websites, protecting visitors from malware and tracking. And although it didn’t meet the White House goal of having all federal websites served o... |
| Nov 30, 2016 | Booz Allen Hamilton looks to get ‘citizen focused’ in acquistion of Laurel-based Aquilent | Maryland acquisition news came in the government contracting space this week, as Booz Allen Hamilton announced a deal to buy Laurel-based Aquilent.
Big news! We’re excited @Aquilent is joining the @BoozAllen team! Here’s to building new #di... |
| Sep 18, 2016 | The government technology pitch | Luke Fretwell Contributor
Luke Fretwell is co-founder and CEO of ProudCity.
Crisis has a history of dictating government technology disruption. We’ve seen this with the anticipation of Soviet Union aerospace and military dominance that spar... |
| Aug 23, 2016 | A List of Female Technology Policy Experts | Update: That escalated quickly. This list started with 15 names of women with insight on a particular issue of law and technology policy. In just over 24 hours, we have over 230 names of a wide variety of experts and over 100 more not yet a... |
| Jul 26, 2016 | What Peter Thiel doesn’t understand about US innovation | The don of the PayPal mafia gave a Trump-esque plea to make innovation great again last week at the Republican National Convention. Thiel sees the American government locking down innovation and keeping it out of the hands of the American e... |
| May 27, 2016 | Venture Investing in the Public Sector | I’ve been at Insight Venture Partners for a year and a half now, and many people I know ask me how about how it compares to the White House.
I tell them, truthfully, that it’s hard to compare things to the White House. The sense of mission... |
| May 4, 2016 | U.S. chief data scientist: Entrepreneurs should do a ‘tour of duty’ in government | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There’s no question that the U.S. government has ... |
| Apr 19, 2016 | How 18F is using a Slack bot to encourage inclusive language | It was near the end of my internship at the NPR social media desk when I got a message on the NPR Snapchat account that went something like this: I’ve noticed you say “hey guys.” Have you thought about using a more gender-neutral word?
I sh... |
| Mar 15, 2016 | 10 ideas that won’t be on the next president’s tech agenda but should be | Colin O’Donnell Contributor
Colin O’Donnell is the chief innovation officer of Intersection.
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With autonomous vehicles it’s not about the journey, it’s about the destination
Smart cities are boring. Give us res... |
| Mar 14, 2016 | The rebirth of the Obama Administration’s Apps.Gov | Andrew Stroup Contributor
Andrew Stroup is the Director of Product for the Presidential Innovation Fellows.
Smita Satiani Contributor
Smita Satiani is the Director of Engagement for the Presidential Innovation Fellow program, where she lead... |
| Nov 9, 2015 | US Government Successfully Issues Contract For Open Source Code… For $1 | One of my very first jobs in Silicon Valley was to try to help an internet startup get a big juicy contract with the US government (specifically the Department of Defense). The whole process was a disaster of epic proportions, in which I le... |
| Oct 30, 2015 | Security and Privacy in the 21st Century: Policy Debates and Practical Tips | Last week, CIA Director John Brennan’s personal AOL email was reportedly hacked by an anonymous teenager. According to the news stories, the hacker claimed he was able to use social engineering to get information from Verizon and AOL to acc... |
| Sep 16, 2015 | Fixing Federal IT | The American taxpayer is paying $80B a year in federal IT, but isn’t getting $80B of value.
As I’ve written previously in Politico, too much of the annual federal IT budget is spent on large projects that take years to deliver anything, an... |
| Jun 30, 2015 | Uncle Sam Needs More Geeks | One of President Obama’s guests at this year’s State of the Union address was Kathy Pham, a health IT expert formerly of Google and IBM. Pham recently joined the federal government to make it easier for veterans to access the benefits they ... |
| Jun 9, 2015 | U.S. government embraces HTTPS | When it comes to the web, you expect U.S. Government sites to be very secure. Hell, with all of the money we taxpayers pay, the websites should be the most secure in the world. Unfortunately, this is not the case. You see, not only are many... |
| Jun 9, 2015 | The Push To Bring Tech Efficiencies To Government Bureaucracies | Nick Sinai Contributor
Nick Sinai is a venture partner at Insight Venture Partners.
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The Push To Bring Tech Efficiencies To Government Bureaucracies
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| Jun 8, 2015 | There Is Now a Deadline for All US Government Websites to Turn on Encryption | Score one more win for the "encrypt all the things" movement.
The White House has given other government agencies until the end of next year to make their public websites more secure and private, the administration announced Monda... |
| Mar 25, 2015 | Meet stealth-mode Doofl. It’s scaling the Ice Bucket Challenge [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Arlington-based Doofl Mgmt., a stealth-mode company that basically institutionalizes dares like the Ice Bucket Challenge, is seeking to raise $150,000, of which it has collected $8,000, according to an SEC filing. More... |
| Mar 11, 2015 | Whitehouse.gov Is Now Secure By Default, Signaling a Trend in Government | WhiteHouse.gov, arguably the most important government website in the world, is now encrypted by default, making your visits to it private and more secure.
The @Whitehouse is taking steps to improve your privacy. Starting today we use HTTPS... |
| Jan 21, 2015 | Uncle Sam Needs More Geeks | Nick Sinai Contributor
Nick Sinai is a venture partner at Insight Venture Partners.
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The Push To Bring Tech Efficiencies To Government Bureaucracies
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| Dec 12, 2014 | Data as Infrastructure | Nick Sinai is an inaugural Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Nick is also a Venture Partner at Insight Venture Partners, a global software,... |
| Nov 7, 2014 | General Assembly chief: DC firms are ‘hungry’ for tech talent | In a minimalistic but comfy “campus” lodged in a corner of 1776, General Assembly is plugging the bright minds of D.C. into the city’s growing tech industry.
G.A. — a global organization that offers intensive courses in skills like web deve... |
| Sep 9, 2014 | Help Code for DC with these 14 civic hacking projects | Founded by government employees Matt Bailey, Justin Grimes and Leah Bannon, Code for DC has a distinctly self-aware bent.
When the local Code for America brigade first convened in October 2012, Grimes had a question for those who showed up ... |
| calling all engineers: uncle sam needs you | This post originally appeared on uncapitalized.com October 21, 2014
a year ago today, i began one of the most interesting stints of my career: i became part of the technology surge team brought in from the private sector to fix HealthCare.... |
| Has Elon Musk Shut Down a Free Online Tax Tool? | “That group has been deleted.” That’s what Elon Musk posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday with regard to a digital service agency that lists the IRS’ Direct File tool among its projects.
Despite the unambiguous brevity of the comment an... |
