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VA demo day showcases employee-driven innovation
The Department of Veterans Affairs touted employees' technology-based projects for solving veterans' health care challenges.
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Pentagon Needs You To Help It Take Down Small Drones
As tiny drones proliferate and make their way onto the battlefield, the Pentagon calls for solutions.
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Social Security rolls back two-factor mandate
The Social Security Administration is relaxing a recent security directive for beneficiaries, because of potential user inconvenience.
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Taking blockchain beyond bitcoin
Blockchain isn't just for bitcoin, and federal agencies might find other uses for the secure recordkeeping tool.
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NNSA looks to map lightning before it strikes
The agency charged with protecting the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile installed new sensors at its weapons components plant to better protect it from the heavens.
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Video: The Olympic Tech That Determines Who Wins Gold
This is much more than a stop watch.
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Government Prize Contests Want More Ideas, Less Software
Agencies are tapping the public for new technology concepts.
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Federal cybersecurity needs a paradigm shift
By putting smart, business-centric security in place to address critical and prioritized risk areas, organizations can shift energies to innovation and mission execution.
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How a Bot is Changing Federal Tech Purchasing
Bots from two vendors were bidding against each other to work on part of a recent cloud contract.
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Lawmakers: Will Census Tech Be Ready to Test or Not?
Concerns about the timeline stem from a June 9 hearing that revealed many key systems haven’t been deployed and the program opted to buy commercial-off-the-shelf products,
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Employers Use Workplace Wearables to Find Out How Happy and Productive We Are
Companies in all fields are beginning to dive into the world of big data in order to increase the health and happiness of their employees, along with boosting productivity and overall output.
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The Startup That Watches Corn Grow, From Orbit
Descartes Labs is estimating the health of the American corn crop every week this harvest season.
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OIG: Interior Needs to Shore Up Insider-Threat Defenses
The department also needs to ensure mobile devices are encrypted, among other recommendations.
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DHS Offers $40M for Data-Driven Decisions
The Homeland Security Department is creating a quantitative analysis center of excellence.
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How People Make Closing DOD Data Centers Difficult
Choosing which data center to close can be less complicated than figuring out what to with the feds who worked there.
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Wearing Shorts at the Pentagon: Inside DOD’s Digital Service Team
Google’s Matt Cutts went to Quora on Tuesday to answer questions about his work at DOD.
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The $47 Billion Network That’s Already Obsolete
FirstNet was envisioned as a way for police and firefighters to communicate with one another in the wake of 9/11. But four years later, it’s still not up and running.
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US Digital Service Turns 2
The White House made use of USDS’ second birthday to highlight its most significant work.
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OPM Gets New CIO from Pentagon
David DeVries, DOD's principal deputy CIO, plans to join the agency in the coming weeks.
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