Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news:
- Proposed legislation would give federal chief information officers authority over their technology budgets. More here.
- The Army is investigating how the 3rd Infantry Division obtained free intelligence software from analytics company Palantir and has ordered the Palantir-provided training servers shut down. More here.
- The U.S. Air Force Center for Strategy and Technology released a foreboding video on the future of technology, which they say they cannot predict. More here.
- Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh voiced concerns that the Department of Defense is spending on cybersecurity without a coordinated plan. More here.
- NASA is investing in research that combines computer and systems science with mechanical, electrical, and materials engineering and social, behavioral, and economic sciences to further robotics. More here.
- NASA is also using two Global Hawk unmanned aircraft to gather data on hurricanes. More here.
- A Government Accountability Office report warns that the Census Bureau is at risk of repeating the same information technology mistakes for the 2020 census as it did in 2010. More here.
- John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management, and Gene Dodaro, U.S. comptroller general and head of GAO, said that the federal government suffers from a lack of qualified IT professionals and that the skills gap will be hard to bridge. More here.
- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has funded software to exploit the weaknesses of Android applications to test them before they go into their app store. More here.
- A California judge refused to order YouTube to remove footage from “Innocence of Muslims” which resulted in protests in the Middle East and North Africa. More here.
- Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the cybersecurity executive order is “close to completion.” More here.
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Center for Program Integrity is integrating the predictive analytics tools used to detect Medicare and Medicaid fraud. More here.
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This post by AlexOlesker was first published at CTOvision.com.
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