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SBA Names Its First Chief Digital Officer
In announcing the news, Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet said Tracy Terrill “in record time” had created SBA’s digital service team with both industry and government talent.
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Agile BPA’s First Project: Making FedRAMP More Transparent
The new contracting vehicle, designed to help agencies buy agile development services for digital products, has been halted by protests.
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Federal Cyber Workforce Needs Cultural Anthropologists, Economists and Marketers
To effectively block cyberthreats, the government needs talent from a diverse set of academic and cultural backgrounds, not just “people behind screens.”
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One Huge Change to Federal IT Contracting is Coming This Spring
GSA pioneers an objective method of picking winners.
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Can You Turn Your Toaster Into a Bomb? DARPA Wants to Know
The agency will pay tinkerers to weaponize off-the-shelf items — in hopes of defending against such hacks.
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How Libraries Are Becoming Modern Makerspaces
They’ve long served as communal gathering spots, but these civic institutions are becoming gateways to technological tinkering.
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'The best leaders allow themselves to be persuaded'
Steve Kelman notes that a critical leadership trait is far harder than it sounds.
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Which Tech Company Hires the Most Tech MBAs
The e-commerce giant Amazon is the biggest employer in the tech industry of graduates from elite business schools.
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Commerce Dept. offers guidance on foreign tech regs
The Commerce Department is piloting a new program aimed at helping U.S. businesses navigate foreign digital domains.
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Army releases data strategy
Army CIO Lt. Gen. Robert Ferrell wants to give Army users and applications quicker access to a range of data.
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FedRAMP takes agile BPA for a test drive
The cloud services vetting office wants to open its process to the public via a dashboard built under 18F's agile blanket purchase agreement.
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Dems Question Secret Service’s 'Monitoring' of Threats Involving Trump Events
One way the Secret Service keeps tabs on threats, in general, is by tracking social media.
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Obama to Techies: Uncle Sam Needs You
"The reason I'm here, really, is to recruit all of you,” Obama told the crowd at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival.
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Tech teams aim to upend procurement
Teams of techies will bring new acquisition models to seven agencies as part of the Digital Acquisitions Pilot.
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Obama warns against 'absolutist' positions on encryption
The White House had said Obama would not weigh in on the Apple case, but he spoke at length on the issue of encryption in the first visit by a sitting president to the South by Southwest festival.
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All the Federal Agencies that Fly Drones over US Soil
On Wednesday, USA Today reported the Pentagon “has deployed drones to spy over U.S. territory for nonmilitary missions over the past decade."
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Debating Income Equality? Get the Facts Right with this New Commerce App
A team of data gurus is hoping to transform stores of siloed government data into fresh insight into one of the toughest challenges in America.
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Video: How Drones Can Help Save the California Coast
One organization needs volunteers in California to fly their drones over the shore to take pictures.
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What the Ukrainian Blackout Means for the Future of Cyberwar
The world’s first cyber-caused electricity blackout shook security experts around the globe. Here’s what it means for keeping the lights on.
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