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Election officials: 'We are going to need more assistance'
At the Election Assistance Committee's latest meeting, officials warn of "enlightening and frightening" planning exercises and a need for additional funding.
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The Republic of Amazon Can Borrow More Cheaply Than Many Countries
It's extremely easy for U.S. companies to borrow right now
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Contractors Begin Early Shutdown Preparations
Agencies will be forced to shutter their doors on Oct. 1 if Congress fails to pass a spending bill to set agency funding for fiscal 2018.
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Can the U.S. Government Seize an Anti-Trump Website's Visitor Logs?
The Department of Justice is seeking the 1.3 million IP addresses that accessed a website advertising Inauguration Day protests.
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Can AI tools replace feds?
The Heritage Foundation is recommending that hundreds of thousands of federal jobs be replaced by automation as part of a larger government reorganization strategy.
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The future of prediction in an unpredictable world
Agility and prediction are not mutually exclusive in government decision-making, according to a new study.
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The Tech Industry is Hiring Israeli Engineers as Fast as the Army Can Produce Them
Israel’s unusually high rate of entrepreneurship is partly attributed to the army, which selects many of the country’s brightest minds for its intelligence division.
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Google Dropped a Neo-Nazi Site from Its Domain-Registration Service Like a Hot Potato
Google’s quick removal of the neo-Nazi site from its web-hosting service comes as it was already facing attacks from the alt-right.
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Replacing Legacy IT Systems
They don’t make the Veterans Affairs Department’s 50-year-old systems like they used to.
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Why an Anti-Fascist Short Film Is Going Viral
“I’ve heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to hear it in America.”
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Time to start planning for a government shutdown
Neither the looming debt limit nor the lack of appropriations is likely to shutter agencies this fall, but the risk is too great to be ignored.
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U.S. Digital Service Is Three Years Old
One of the government's tech teams celebrates its third anniversary.
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2016 Was Hot, Weird, and Unprecedented, Says NOAA
Five lessons from the agency’s report on the year’s record-breaking weather
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Census walks back tech solution to population count
The Census Bureau expects to nearly double the number of in-person household visits -- and in turn, the total burden hours -- during its critical dress rehearsal test.
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Energy Department releases code to count bats in the dark
Pacific Northwest Laboratory researchers are making the thermal imaging software available to energy companies to help with offshore wind turbine siting.
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Here’s How the US Military Wants to Counter ISIS Drones and Roadside Bombs
Predictive algorithms, deep machine learning, directed energy, and more are all on the Pentagon’s shopping list.
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Report: USDA CIO Reassigned
Jonathan Alboum is one of a slew of federal CIOs who have either left their posts or been reassigned.
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Completing This 30-Minute Exercise Makes Teams Less Anxious and More Productive
This is one way to bypass workplace miscommunications.
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