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Bye-Bye to Army Minirobot?
I've met the Army's battlefield minirobot -- which goes by the official moniker of Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle -- twice over the past year on trips to White Sands Missile Range in south central New Mexico. I have to say it's one mighty impressive and cute little critter.
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Health IT Cuts Heart Attack Risk
Electronic medical records played a key role in lowering cholesterol in people at very high risk for heart disease to levels considered by many health experts to be unattainable, reports Kaiser Permanente.
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HR Tech Goes Cloudy
New research suggests that more human resources professionals are turning to cloud-based solutions to meet key business challenges and close effectiveness gaps that currently exist between HR priorities and HR systems.
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Treasury plans auctions for $2B services contract
Treasury Department officials are proposing that reverse auctions be used in awarding task orders under its $2 billion Total Information Processing Support Services contract.
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Vets poorly served by VA call centers, audit finds
Callers to the Veterans Benefits Administration reach an agent and obtain accurate information only 49 percent of the time, an audit says.
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The top 10 awfully bad passwords people use
Many end users don't understand the need for good passwords, report shows.
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Want fool-proof security? Shut off the network
Some readers are concerned that more and more network managers are dealing with cybersecurity threats by simply making it impossible for end users to work online.
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New hiring process easier on federal jobseekers
President Obama on May 11 released a memorandum announcing changes to federal hiring processes that will make it easier and simpler for job candidates to apply for federal employment.
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Technology bill undone by porn provision
Republican language would have stopped agencies from paying feds caught watching pornography on work computers.
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