Government IT

Houston, we have a leak. Space station losing ammonia

NASA reports crew in no danger; growing leak could shut down a cooling loop

Obama administration expands open data access

Agencies must make government data available in open, machine-readable formats, the president says

Detector finds smuggled cellphones even without batteries or SIM cards

Maker Berkeley Varitronics says the device detects a phone's components

North Carolina auditor: 84 state-run IT projects well over budget, schedule

Expert: State officials face a 'rat's nest' of work to fix IT project planning problems

Massive citizen smartphone photo and video probe underway into Boston bombings

FBI will process photos and videos and 'go through every frame' to seek evidence, officials say

Obama R&D spending plan doesn’t beat inflation

White House's $3.8 trillion budget plan doesn't include a goal for building exascale supercomputers

EPIC presses FBI in lawsuit for details on biometric database

The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI

Switzerland to upgrade supercomputer to improve Alps weather forecasts

DHS shifts to cloud, agile development

Tech groups protest anti-China provision in US budget resolution

The amendment targeting Chinese-made IT products could harm the US government and vendors, the trade group say