Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) wants the Obama administration to figure out when a cyber attack is considered an act of war.
A big data palooza for the health care field has just kicked off here in Washington. For what to expect, Federal Drive with Tom Temin asked Niall Brennan, chairman of the Health Data Palooza and chief data officer at the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The General Services Administration is creating a new service to host its high-tech offerings. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin if the new organization is step up for those GSA functions, or will another layer of bureaucracy bog them down?
How close is it for NASA to be able to launch people on a mission to Mars? Bill Hill, the Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Development at NASA Headquarters, tells Federal News Radio's Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin what role NASA's ground systems development and operations critical design review plays in embarking on moving toward a historic mission.
Both agencies are using different portfolio management approaches to better oversee and control spending on commodity technology.
A new report by the federal chief technology officer highlights the power of big data while also emphasizing the need to consider its ethical implications.
The Office of Management and Budget is reminding agencies what is expected of them as the countdown begins for the DATA Act's full implementation in May 2017.
The Commerce Department wants to train all of its employees in the next two years on digital data tools. It's part of the agency's goal to make the vast amounts of data it collects more accessible to the public.