Seattle lays plans for its own ultra-high speed Internet service
The city plans a 1 gigabit/sec network for homes and business, partly by making use of its unused fiber.
HHS prescribes 11 basic steps for securing mobile devices
With an eye toward protecting patient privacy, HHS offers tools for keeping health data protected on mobile devices -- advice that any public-sector agency could follow.
Agency public alerts could now show up with Google searches
Google adds weather, safety and even Amber alerts to its search and mapping applications as part of its Public Alerts service that other agencies can take part in.
PDF Filler helps make online forms interactive
For agencies, PDF Filler provides a stepping stone from paper-based PDFs to entirely electronic data collection.
As hacker forums breed recruits, government stages cyber education counterattack
Hacker forums are an incubator of future cyber criminals, according to a recent Imperva report, but government is expanding educational tools of its own by sponsoring university cyber training programs and beefing up cyber force development.
3D printing can’t build a city (yet), but it can help plan one
‘Vision Louisville’ invites the public to use 3D models to plan what the city will look like in 2040.
Army puts a 4G battlefield telemedicine system to the test
A real-time system that connects medics on the battlefield with surgeons at a hospital would save lives, if it can be made to work.
Energy lab develops Sophia to help secure SCADA systems
A team at the Idaho National Laboratory spent three years developing the software sentry, which monitors industrial networks for any suspicious activity.
Scrap the app: Smart-phone users getting wary over privacy
People are starting to get suspicious about what apps take from them, and are declining to download, a Pew study shows.
FBI to open facial recognition searches to police nationwide
A pilot project that started in Michigan will give police in in several states access to a database of nearly 13 million mug shots.
Former wartime blimp refitted for border surveillance
Customs and Border Protection is testing an aerostat used in Afghanistan along the Arizona-Mexico border.
Typical Web app is attacked 274 times a year, study finds
If your agency delivers information and services through website applications, be ready for plenty of "battle days," according to an Imperva study.
HUD automates records management to better handle FOIA requests
Three million documents have been digitized and added to the system, which can be accessed any time from any browser.
License plate scanners: Useful tools, but what about all that data?
The systems, which can capture up to thousands of images per hour, are increasingly popular with police but are raising privacy conerns.
Army command gets collaborative with SharePoint portal
SharePoint lets CECOM’s 13,000 employees share information across the command, within organizations and individually.
FBI mulls how to build database of tattoos
The FBI asks experts for suggestions in how to add tattoos to its databases of fingerprints, DNA, voice signatures and iris scans.
Is NSA's Accumulo open source or Google knock-off?
A bill would bar the Defense Department from using the NSA's Accumulo open source software unless DOD can show no viable commercial open source alternatives exist.
DOE wish list: Exascale computing at a price it can afford
The Department of Energy has enlisted a seven-lab consortium to develop hardware and software technologies capable of one quintillion calculations per second.
NORAD, Northcom launch joint cyber division
The new Joint Cyber Center includes members from the intelligence, operations, and command and control divisions, and a team from the U.S. Cyber Command.
Army wants to train on its own private Internet
The portal would mimic the look and functionality of the Web, including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other sites for scenario-based training.
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