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Soldiers to Help Crowdsource Spy Maps
Because satellite connectivity can be too spotty to obtain high-fidelity images for spies in remote locations, some intelligence officials say they welcome the expansion of social mapping.
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Survey: People Will Share their Data with Companies for Cash
Getting cash or discounts for your personal data could give you more control over it—but may help turn privacy into a premium feature.
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DOD unveils manufacturing center at MIT
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the advanced materials hub will be a boon for the Defense Department's application of new wearable technologies and other gadgets.
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Critics Say White House’s Open Source Software Policy Doesn't Go Far Enough
The Presidential Innovation Fellows Foundation and GSA’s 18F both think government software should be “open by default.”
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FAA tweaks drone registration
The FAA is making life a little easier for federal and commercial domestic drone operators by opening its new online registration site and doubling the authorized operating altitude.
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Research Finds Government Surveillance Has Chilling Effect on Online Discourse
Knowing about government surveillance prompts people to self-censor what they say online, and avoid expressing controversial opinions, a new study suggests.
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Could New Technology Make Language Barriers Irrelevant in the Next 10 Years?
No more trying to remember your high school French when checking into a hotel in Paris.
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Making social media monitoring matter
For an agency to be at the top of its social media game, tracking trends is an important part of the strategy.
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Pentagon Won't Hit Own Goals for Closing Data Centers
The Defense Department is only on track to close about 44 percent of its data centers. Its goal for the 2018 fiscal year was 60 percent.
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FITARA’s Growing Pains: CIOs Raise Concerns
Boosting the authority of agency CIOs when it comes to overseeing IT spending and contracting is one of the key aims of the law -- but it will take some time
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2 Out of 3 Developers Are Self-Taught
The answers of the 56,000 people who responded to a recent survey hint at what’s next for technology.
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Report: Feds Say Data Centers in Danger of Becoming Obsolete
Only 11 percent of l IT managers in a new survey say they believe their agency’s data centers currently meet mission demand.
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Crowdsourcing the price of everything
To break away from manual price data collection and get a more granular, useful picture of the American economy, the BLS might look to tech being deployed in the developing world.
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DOD's Work: Automated data can help beat ISIS
Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work recently returned from Silicon Valley, where he met with an analytics firm that can ingest open-source data and turn it into national security insights.
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Pentagon Extends Deadline for $17.5B IT Deal
The contract is primarily designed to help the Pentagon modernize its IT infrastructure under the Joint Information Environment.
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Pentagon CIO Wants Congress to Make it Easier to Bring in Tech Talent
One of the biggest tech challenges facing the department is retaining the IT workforce, says Terry Halvorsen.
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OMB gives mobile the category management treatment
The draft policy, the third in a set of category management directives, directs agencies to report all mobile service use and pricing data to a central system.
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Change to Proposed Chinese Law Would Make Foreign Websites Impossible to Reach
The new regulations, if taken to the extreme, would require that even harmless websites—your mom’s favorite recipes site, for example—be blocked.
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CIOs: don't take the free movie tickets
Ethics violations could await agency leaders who see the movie on a vendor's dime.
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