Technology
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The Homeland Security Department plans to issue guidance for stakeholders when it comes to deploying, manufacturing and consuming internet-connected devices.
August 31, 2016 -
The National Institute of Standards and Technology unveiled the third draft of its digital authentication standards. Among the many changes to the guidance is a new name, and the division of the original document from one to four sections.
August 30, 2016 -
The Office of Personnel Management has been busy this year helping agencies more quickly recruit, hire and develop cyber talent, an initiative outlined in the President's Cybersecurity National Action Plan. Agencies like the FBI and Commerce Department say they are also beginning to change their mindsets when building teams of cyber experts.
August 30, 2016 -
A new report from the Social Security Administration’s inspector general found 35 deceased federal beneficiaries were paid $1.7 million between 1991 and 2013.
August 30, 2016 -
When trying to sell cars, Packard Motor used to say, ask the man who owns one. When it comes to the F-35 fifth generation fighter, the Air Force might want to say, ask the man or woman who flies one. That's what the Heritage Foundation did in creating comprehensive assessment of the new platform. JV Venable, senior research fellow for defense policy at Heritage, talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about his findings.
August 30, 2016 -
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has been funding research it hopes will have a big payoff not just for the intelligence community, but for the public as well.
August 30, 2016 -
NASA technicians dropped a mockup of the Orion spacecraft into a pool of water to see how it would perform during a spashdown.
August 29, 2016 -
A grantmaking program to solve a grand supercomputing challenge is underway from the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Several disciplines are coming together to eventually create low power, brain-like supercomputers that can enable advances in many fields, such as aircraft design, autonomy and climate modeling. Jared Serbu discussed the program with Mike Meador director of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, in the National Science and Technology Council, on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
August 29, 2016
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