Digital Government
Space: Trump's Least Controversial Frontier
Unlike in other policy areas, the president can pay significant attention to the U.S. space program with little risk of backlash.
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There’s No Way to Win at Email—So We Just Need to Relax Our Standards
Inbox Zero is a pipe dream.
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Google Is Testing Job-Search Feature That Could Rival LinkedIn—And Facebook
The search giant is also quietly working on a service called Google Hire, a tool to manage companies’ recruitment processes,
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MGT Act, FAFSA Data Breach on Congress' Agenda
Updating old systems and investigating what's happened with a popular student-aid tool are on Congress' calendar this week.
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NSA Is Changing Some of the Information It Collects
The agency says it’s stopping the controversial practice of collecting Americans’ emails that mention foreign intelligence targets.
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GSA rolls out space-based SIN
The agency hopes Schedule 70 special item number for Earth observation solutions will help speed uptake of emerging satellite services.
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Trump Creates New Tech Council to Tackle Federal IT Modernization
A new order offers another sign that agency heads, not CIOs, will be responsible for federal systems.
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HHS Secretary: Doctors Should Deal With Patients, Not Computers
The agency should set standards for health IT so doctors don’t need to fiddle with electronic medical records, Tom Price says.
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Slack Can Now Be Used as a Dating App—And That’s a Really Bad Idea
The messaging platform that’s taken over the lives of office workers, is about to become even more distracting.
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Facebook Data ‘Does Not Contradict’ Intelligence on Russia Meddling
The social platform says it has a problem with government-run efforts to manipulate public opinion.
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NSA halts Section 702 'upstream' collection
The NSA says it is halting "upstream" collection of email traffic that mentions targets of foreign surveillance after an internal review of "inadvertent compliance incidents" involving information collected on U.S. persons.
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Senators seek to protect federal data
Sens. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) introduced a bill seeking to protect public access to open government data through legislation and prevent its removal without sufficient public notice.
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Trump's DHS CIO Pick is a Former Secret Service Agent, Hedge Fund CISO
Richard Staropoli would fill the spot left vacant by Luke McCormack.
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Hurd to Introduce Revised IT Modernization Bill with White House Support
The Modernizing Government Technology Act, take two.
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The Rise of the Health Care Robots
The robots are coming and they want you to get well soon.
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Trump Aide Signals Spending Data Will Be Critical to Modernizing Government
The DATA Act's deadline is approaching quickly.
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Trump tech aide touts DATA Act as 'model' for innovation
A few agencies will miss the May deadline to electronically submit their financial data, but robust support of spending data transparency from the White House, Congress and the private sector will keep the pressure on lagging agencies.
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Pentagon’s Top Techie Needs Purchasing Power of Closest Allies, Former DOD CIO Says
The country's closest allies have CIO counterparts who can make small investments promising technology. Not so in the U.S.
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Powerful Algorithms Need a New Formula, Not More Transparency, To Be Kept in Check
Algorithms are complicated so exposing the code behind them won’t make them more understandable, says Microsoft.
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