Calling all K-12 teachers, school administrators, and education IT pros! As planning for 2017 kicks into high gear, here are the ed tech conferences that should be on your calendar. […]

In less than a month, the 115th Congress will begin legislative business, giving congressional freshmen the first opportunity to exercise their new positions. Among those freshmen are industry members, former government employees, and nonprofit founders whose technology backgrounds make them the new faces to watch for IT legislation in the coming years. […]

Three American universities are among the top 25 colleges that have the best coders in the world, according to a recent list created by HackerRank. […]

Thirteen universities recently received grants from NASA’s Space Technology Research Grants Program worth as much as $500,000 each. The goal of this program is to accelerate the development of space technologies in their earliest stages to enable future systems capabilities and missions for NASA, other government agencies, and the commercial space sector. […]

Cybersecurity is a top priority for program managers at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar who are designing an energy security microgrid. […]

Students at UCLA and Duke are learning about their schools even before they move in, thanks to Snapchat. […]

The University of California-Los Angeles has launched an online resource to offer career guidance for its adult students, as well as its brood of more than 400,000 alumni. […]

What do you get when you cross a third-generation Portuguese congressman with a completely logical plan to consolidate the military’s Joint Intelligence Analysis Centers around the world? […]

Amazon announced that it has selected 12 university teams to compete in the Alexa Prize competition. […]

The incoming Trump administration plans to get rid of 18F, the digital services team located within the General Services Administration that has been criticized recently for its spending practices, according to a senior administration official. Republican Donald Trump won the presidential election on Nov. 8, raising questions about what lies ahead for Federal IT. […]

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy launched the beta site for the Resilience Dialogues, an online forum for collaboration on solutions related to climate change. […]

Catch up on some reading this weekend. Here are a few interesting items from MeriTalk. […]

MeriTalk compiles a weekly roundup of contracts and other industry activity. Here’s what happened this week in the Federal Information Technology community. […]

The Center for Democracy & Technology, along with the law firm BakerHostetler, developed a state-by-state compendium of privacy laws relating to the collection, use, and sharing of student data. […]

The Center for Democracy & Technology, along with the law firm BakerHostetler, developed a state-by-state compendium of privacy laws relating to the collection, use, and sharing of student data. Here’s a look at the West. […]

The Center for Democracy & Technology, along with the law firm BakerHostetler, developed a state-by-state compendium of privacy laws relating to the collection, use, and sharing of student data. Here’s a look at the Midwest. […]

The Center for Democracy & Technology, along with the law firm BakerHostetler, developed a state-by-state compendium of privacy laws relating to the collection, use, and sharing of student data. Here’s a look at the South. […]

The Center for Democracy & Technology, along with the law firm BakerHostetler, developed a state-by-state compendium of privacy laws relating to the collection, use, and sharing of student data. Here’s a look at states in the Northeast. […]

Teachers use learning apps, digital tools, technology devices and next-generation technology to promote a fun environment, facilitate communication among students, give every student access to technology, and make learning more personal. […]

Students at Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs walk into library class with the possibility of talking to other students in Australia, Thailand, or Ecuador. Toni Olivieri-Barton, Library Technology Educator at Fountain Valley, introduced the program Mystery Skype to her students when she joined the school two years ago. […]

David Winn has over 30 years of experience in engineering design, planning and program management. During his career, Mr. Winn has been involved in services across the spectrum of critical use facilities, from designing complete facilities for high reliability data centers, sensitive research facilities and chemical processing plants. Mr. Winn applied his knowledge and experience […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the first two contracts of its Commercial Weather Data Pilot program. […]

The Technical Guidelines Development Committee’s cybersecurity working group doesn’t know what to focus on in terms of voting security less than two months from Election Day. “It’s not clear where to go or whether our group should do anything on this,” said member David Wagner, computer science professor at the University of California-Berkeley. […]

Next-Generation High Schools encourage at-risk students to stay in school and graduate on time, according to school administrators and students. […]

Declara has created an Artificial Intelligence platform that builds a learning journey for K-12 and university educators to gather resources and materials without cost. […]

If a company gets hit with ransomware, don’t pay the ransom, said Kevin Haley, director of product management and security response at Symantec. […]

Finland is rolling into the future of mass transit with the first driverless bus. One of the world’s first autonomous bus pilot programs has already begun in the Hernesaari district in Helsinki, and will run through mid-September. […]

The TSA last week discovered in a carry-on bag a loaded gun that was constructed of parts made with a 3-D printer….The Veterans Administration is actively pondering what it will require to manage transitioning from its legacy electronic health record, known as VistA, to a commercial EHR….And who’s keeping track of that teleworking equipment at the U.S. Patent and Trademark office? […]

The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate announced Monday the Next-Generation Incident Command System. NICS is a Web-based platform that can be accessed on mobile devices; it allows for communication between first responders at an incident and remote experts. […]

Campaign managers who urge politicians that they have a certain state’s unwavering support can now use data analytics to detect cities and even individuals within those states who may not back the candidates. […]