Government IT

Cloud industry needs to standardize, says Fed CIO

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services' chief information officer wants way to compare cloud providers

Feds aren’t ‘knowingly’ weakening encryption, says U.S. official

Recent Snowden leaks rattle NIST

PowerPoint presentations get a 4F in the Army as Tableau gains a foothold

Data visualization is being used to help the military move equipment out of Afghanistan

Big Data Drives City of Buffalo’s Operation Clean Sweep

Amazon hiring ‘top secret’ IT staff as it fights for CIA work

Government private cloud bid represents new approach for Amazon -- one that has put it at odds with IBM

Report: The NSA pays millions for US telecom access

The Washington Post reports that the NSA paid $278 million this fiscal year to tap into phone lines, e-mail and instant messages

Leaked US spying budget reveals investments in ‘groundbreaking’ cryptanalysis

The 'cryptology' program was set to receive $11 billion from the $52.6 billion budget asked by the intelligence community for 2013

Medicaid Expansion, Insurance Exchanges Taxing State Health Agencies

Report: NSA broke into UN video teleconferencing system

The agency reportedly cracked the system's encryption to snoop on internal UN communications

The NSA collected data on tens of thousands of Americans

The collection may have been inadvertent, declassified docs show