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Election Assistance Commission Appoints New Director With Security-Focused Background
Steven Frid, who currently serves as the security director at the Education Department’s Federal Student Aid office, will begin his role at the Election Assistance Commission on Jan. 30.
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UFO Sightings By US Troops Surge
Intelligence officials cite recent efforts to reduce the stigma of reporting odd aerial phenomena. Many cases remain unexplained.
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House Oversight Committee Probes GSA Administrator’s Telework
The GOP-led committee is seeking details about Robin Carnahan's telework arrangements.
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FAA System Outage Grounds All US Flights Overnight
An outage to a system providing real-time flight hazard information led to a nationwide ground stop of U.S. air travel Wednesday morning.
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NIH’s Governmentwide IT Acquisition Center Appoints Permanent Director
Brian Goodger, who has served as acting director of the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center since 2021, will now helm the center in a permanent capacity.
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New Records Rules Require Agencies to Save Chats and Texts
Previous records retention rules only explicitly applied to email communications. Now that has expanded to all pertinent electronic messages.
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Data from NASA’s Space-Based Tech Used to Spot CO2 Emission Sources
Observations from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 and 3 missions were used to pinpoint carbon dioxide emissions from one coal power plant.
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NASA Names Longtime Aerospace Industry Expert as New Chief Technologist
With prior experience from companies like Blue Origin, A.C. Charania will take on the agencywide role to spearhead technology innovation.
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State Department creates first office devoted to emerging technology diplomacy
The Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology will facilitate strategic partnerships to develop and regulate innovative tech.
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Army CIO Raj Iyer to Step Down
The former industry executive had served as the Army's top information technology officer for more than two years, but will depart the service "over the next several weeks."
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New funding flexibility could help extend the reach of the Federal Citizen Services Fund
The new pass-the-hat style funding tool could be tapped to fund cross-agency work.
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‘We Have Nothing’ Showing UFOs Are of Alien Origin, Defense Official Says
So far, data has not shown unidentified anomalous phenomena to be from an alien source, according to defense officials.
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NASA Science Directorate Wants Help Prioritizing What Digital Resources It Should Open-Source First
NASA Science Mission Directorate wants to know what data, software and computing resources the public research community wants access to the most.
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What's the state of AI accountability in government?
A new report recommends that the federal CIO Council set up a group to work through what exactly AI accountability is and how to achieve it.
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Biden Renominates Sohn to Serve as 5th FCC Commissioner
The president’s choice to double down on Gigi Sohn’s appointment to the Federal Communications Commission comes after her previous nomination stalled in the Senate for over a year.
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House Republicans Are Looking to Cut Agencies or Specific Feds' Pay by Reviving the 'Holman Rule'
The new Congress already has its eyes set on slashing funding at some agencies, and eliminating others altogether.
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CDC Wants Real-time Data on COVID, Flu Vaccine Effectiveness
The public health agency aims to increase its use of real-time data to track the effectiveness of respiratory vaccines and is looking for possible vendor solutions.
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Lack of Cloud Backups Poses a ‘Real Problem’ for Data Protection, Expert Says
A Veeam report found that a third of IT leaders did not think their cloud data needed to be backed up for security.
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2022 Year in Review: The Interviews
Five of our favorite recorded interviews from the year.
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