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Why VA's Cerner deal will cost $10 billion
The program officer in charge of the Department of Veterans Affairs shift to a commercial electronic health record offered some insight into the complexities of the move at a House hearing.
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GSA Plans to Democratize Its Data
The agency's central platform will let employees dabble in data sets and analytics tools.
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Senate Confirms GSA Leader
New Administrator Emily Webster Murphy has extensive experience in acquisition.
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Senate Intel chair doesn't plan legislative push on election cyber
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) dropped some hints about what the Senate Intelligence Committee will recommend to protect election infrastructure.
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DHS Needs to Better Protect Employees’ Sensitive Info, IG Says
An audit found the agency falls short of federal privacy requirements
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AT&T to join Census mobile device efforts
The Commerce Dept. says a successful contract award protest is moot after AT&T agreed to join CDW-G on the Census mobile device-as-a-service contract as a subcontractor.
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How to Fight Work Bullshit (While Keeping Your Job and Your Dignity)
Politely questioning a peer is one thing but questioning a junior colleague or supervisor is almost impossible.
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What NASA Can Teach Agencies About Making Employees Happy
The government’s most innovative agency increased employee satisfaction for the sixth year in a row.
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The FCC Plans to Kill the Open Internet; Don’t Count on the FTC to Save It
The FTC does not have specialized expertise in telecommunications.
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Why data chiefs need to be everywhere
Agency chief data officers belong where they are needed, and that's not necessarily in the IT shop.
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Pentagon boosts emerging tech spend
The Department of Defense spent $7.4 billion in fiscal year 2017 on cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence technologies, according to a recent Govini report.
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GAO: Feds Aren’t Doing Enough for Minority Tech Workers
Equal employment agencies could be doing more, such as looking at which universities they recruit from.
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House GOP looks to punt on shutdown date
A stopgap funding bill would extend the current continuing resolution by two weeks.
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The Woman Who Mentored 13 CEOs
She spent 36 years as an executive in the food industry, and over that time supervised a baker’s dozen of future chief executives.
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Budget-Managing Tips, but for Space Telescopes
NASA is scrambling to cut the growing cost of its latest big astronomy mission.
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Hill hackathon tackles transparency, efficiency
The Congressional Hackathon included pitches from tech groups to improve citizens' access to government, including the House Clerk's Office's plans to begin redlining and markup history of legislation by Jan. 1.
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The Government’s Struggle to Hire Young Tech Talent is Worse Than You Thought
There’s only one under-30 IT specialist working in agencies for every four who are over 60 years old.
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New Google App Could Help You Save Data
Because even 'unlimited' data plans have limits.
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Signs That You Are Working With a Serial Sexual Harasser
A couple ways you can definitely see it coming.
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