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*** Booz Allen recently won a $1 billion modernization contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Washington Technology's Nick Wakeman takes a look at the protest to explain why Booz won despite not submitting the low bid.

*** A new book "Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History" shows how the demands of the decennial population count stimulated the growth of the U.S. computer industry. Read more from the book's author David Lindsay Roberts on GCN.