Digital Government

Court: Feds can't hide outside emails from FOIA

Emails that contain government records don't gain immunity from FOIA just because they reside on an non-governmental system, an appeals court decided July 5.

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Justice Wants Drones to Try Reconstructing Car Crashes

Police departments in Florida, Kansas and Texas are just a few of the local agencies nationwide authorized to patrol the skies, in certain situations, for public safety.

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FBI Head: 'No Reasonable Prosecutor Would Bring Such a Case'

Director James Comey said the agency had concluded its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server on Tuesday.

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NASA nails wry Juno outreach

Adding a sardonic dash to its trademark social media openness, NASA celebrated the initial success of its mission to Jupiter.

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Q&A: Silicon Valley Needs Government Buying to Change

DHS wants to dispel the myth that startups don’t do business with the government.

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As Term Winds Down, Obama Signs FOIA Reform Bill

The president plans to promote a "release to one is a release to all" policy.

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Can the Freedom of Information Act Be Fixed?

President Obama signs into law a much-needed update. But will it change anything?

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GAO doesn't trust 2020 census financials

The federal watchdog warns in a new report that the Census Bureau's $12.5 billion price tag for 2020 was not calculated reliably.

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A Tesla Fatality and the Future of Self-Driving Cars

The Model S’s Autopilot isn’t technically a driverless feature, but the federal investigation into why a driver using it was killed will still influence the future of driverless vehicles.

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Why chief data officers don't do much tech

In many cases, federal CDOs find themselves focused less on technology and more on playing adviser to leaders within their agencies.

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After Istanbul, Here’s How Airport Experts Want to Protect You at the Curbside

The bombing in Turkey show that the U.S. still has a lot of security softspots.

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Inside NSA’s 'Sociotechnical' Data Experiment

The numbers alone aren't enough to change how an agency makes decisions.

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How to Continue FITARA’s Momentum in the Next Administration

With an administration shift, the people appointed sometimes “don’t even know how to spell ‘information technology,'" one former agency CIO said.

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Interior spending $50K per month on unused mobile devices

The Interior Department is wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on mobile devices that are unused or unsecured, according to a new inspector general report.

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DARPA network shields against space junk

DARPA hit a milestone for a data network aimed at avoiding collisions in Earth's orbit.

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GAO: IRS can do a better job tracking IT performance

A GAO report recommends that the IRS improve its performance measurement and reporting practices for $2.7 billion worth of IT investments.