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White House CIO: New IT Fund Isn't 'Get It And Forget It' Money
The White House's chief information officer is continuing his public relations campaign to promote the $3 billion IT Modernization Fund.
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IG: Social Security Should’ve Considered Scrapping $300M IT Project
Agency officials only considered two options: buying commercial code or building their own.
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New York accents, New York baseball and presidential politics
Steve Kelman gets back to his roots, and considers the Big Apple's overtones in this year's elections.
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How Blockchain Technology Can Prevent the Next Financial Crisis, Disrupt Uber and Give Us Control of Our Data
It is essentially a digital distributed ledger anyone on the internet can access.
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Toaster-Sized Satellites Will Revolutionize How We Measure World Food Supply
2,900 people visit 125,000 American farmers each year to survey them about their expected yields.
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What the Joint Chiefs’ Email Hack Tells Us About the DNC Breach
The two attacks share a perpetrator and even some techniques. Here’s how to stop them.
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White House, Senate at odds over Census funding
The administration is concerned that a Senate appropriations bill starves the Census Bureau of $100 million needed to complete the 2020 Census design.
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DOD Plans to Eliminate Common Access Cards
Halvorsen said the Pentagon will move to “true multifactor” authentication that would increase DOD’s agility and cut costs and the time to issue the cards themselves.
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Medicare chief wants health record vendors to ease access
The head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services put EHR vendors on notice that they had to do more to improve data interoperability.
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Navy Is Making a New GPS for Drone Submarines
Right now, GPS signals can barely travel below the surface of the ocean.
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LinkedIn May Just Be the Beginning of Mega-Acquisitions for Silicon Valley
The world’s technology giants are sitting on an unprecedented mountain of cash.
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A Win for 'Net Neutrality'
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the government's rules, which ensure consumers get equal access to internet.
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Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records (UPDATED)
Fraud and abuse investigations dating back to 2004 vanished when a database became corrupted, service officials said.
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Federal CIO: IT Upgrade Fund is ‘Single Biggest Opportunity’ to Make Dent in Legacy IT
Over the next three years, more than $3 billion worth of federal IT investments will reach end-of-life, Tony Scott says.
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There’s No Backup System if GPS Fails
This is troubling for many reasons, including massive reliance on the system’s clocks.
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This Agency Has to Write a Government Contract Just to Promote its Facebook Posts
The Defense Commissary Agency wants more people to see its posts, which include recipes and food jokes.
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Lack of Funding Means Several Agencies Won’t Be Getting Digital Service Teams After All
Of the 25 largest federal agencies slated for the effort, just three currently have officially chartered digital service teams.
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Industry to DOD: There’s Innovation in the Beltway, Too
The West Coast outreach doesn’t sit well with some members of the Beltway’s defense contracting base who feel ignored.
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Tracking Earth's Secret Spy Satellites
With the right gear and know-how, anyone can keep tabs on the clandestine ”moons” that surround our planet.
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