Posts By Bob Gourley

Interesting Phone Concepts

Have you ever heard of the phone called the Nokia Aeon? How about the Triple Flip that runs on Windows 7? There are just two of the many innovative ideas that have exploded onto the internet as well as various phone companies. Designers are hard at work finding new futuristic phone concepts to bring toRead… Read more »

Flame Developed by the US and Israel, House Judiciary Committee reauthorizes FISA Amendments Act, and More

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: An anonymous official confirmed that United States and Israel jointly developed the Flame spying malware. More here. The Veterans Affairs Department would need a staff of 4,000 to scan and digitize its backlogged paper records. More here. The House Judiciary Committee reauthorized the FISA Amendments ActRead… Read more »

New Energy Chief Information Officer, A New Cybersecurity National Lab, and More

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Department of Energy has named its former Deputy Chief Information Officer Bob Brese as the new CIO. More here. The National Security Agency will not reveal how many Americans had their communications monitored to senators out of privacy concerns. More here. The U.S. Computer EmergencyRead… Read more »

From Predator to P90X

Here at CTOVision, we believe physical fitness is important. You won’t have the energy to use your Hadoop or chase down some Advanced Persistent Pandas if you don’t go for the odd jog or two. Don’t have time to hit the road? Jut not feeling up to it today? Would rather make some centrifuges spinRead… Read more »

A Drone App Store, the Department of Defense Mobile Strategy, and More

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will fund research into how the brain connects concepts in order to build better analysis tools. More here. The Department of Defense’s Acquisition, Technology and Logistics directorate is looking to create an Unmanned Aerial Systems ”app store” for mission-specific capabilities.Read… Read more »

Submit Your Technology To The CTOlabs Directory

CTOlabs.com, hosts a curated list of firms we believe provide the most virtuous, mission-focused, positively disruptive technologies available to enterprises today. We maintain this directory as a reference for technology professionals. We find firms to include on this list by casting a wide net. We talk with other technology professionals from around the globe, weRead… Read more »

Teaching Drones to Work Together, $50,000 for Illegal Access to Energy Supercomputer, and More

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The United States Air Force Academy Cooperative Technologies for Unmanned Systems research program seeks ways to combine data from multiple unmanned aircraft to collaboratively track targets. More here. A New Zealand High Court ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to copy the 150 terabytes of dataRead… Read more »

Head of NSA Endorses the Cloud, China Tied to Cyber Attacks, and More

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, endorsed using the cloud for sharing classified intelligence on cyber threats with critical industries. More here. A MeriTalk survey finds that federal employees blame training and investment for the gap between public andRead… Read more »

Predictive Firefighting

While using predictive software to help law enforcement is a new trend, modeling and forecasting wildfires has been around for decades. This year’s forest fire season is off to a violent start, and we already see many of these analytical tools in play in New Mexico, which has its largest forest fire in history burnRead… Read more »

The State of National Network Defense, Navigation Without GPS, and More

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working on an All Source Positioning and Navigation (ASPN) project to provide robust, seamless, low cost navigation with or without GPS. More here. Debora Plunkett, director of the National Security Agency’s Information Assurance Directorate, said that while our understandingRead… Read more »