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Kerber leaves GSA
Jennifer Kerber is resigning as director of the General Services Administration's Connect.gov program to take a private-sector job.
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Why Is the Wildly Popular Email Privacy Act Still Stuck in Congress?
More than 300 House members—a majority of the body—have signed on as cosponsors.
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4 Ways To Foster Innovation in the Office, According to Google
Google has become a champion of evidence-based management and is helping other organizations do the same.
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How CDOs are putting 'useless' data to work
Cleaning, cataloguing, counseling – it's all part of the job for agency data gurus as they seek to surface useful data for their colleagues and customers.
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VA taking free advice from tech firms on scheduling
The Veterans Affairs chief and a Virginia lawmaker applaud the public/private partnership working on fixing the troubled VA medical scheduling system.
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DHS Looking for Data Privacy Experts
DHS' Privacy Office is looking for 17 applicants for 3-year terms
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How Valuable is Federal Research? It Depends How You Count
It's difficult to pin down the total economic impact of federal R&D.
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Are These Collaboration Platforms Key to Improving Federal IT?
Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott announced the winning teams of the first-ever CIO Council IT Solutions Challenge.
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Carter: Countering Islamic State online is 'very important'
Defense Secretary Ash Carter and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford see online response as a part of the battle against the Islamic State group.
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DARPA Kills Program That Would Have Launched Satellites with Fighter Jets
The next-generation rocket fuel involved turned out to be a little too explosive.
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Revamping IRS Electronic Fraud Detection Could Waste $18 Million a Year
A new Treasury audit found the IRS planned to run the new and old systems simultaneously.
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The Internet Isn't Available in Most Languages
Despite all the hype about how it has connected the world, the web is more insular than you might think.
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Months After Huge Hack, OPM Finally Completes IT Inventory
The agency is still cleaning up from the breaches it announced this summer.
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FDA Crowdsourcing its Way to Precision Medicine. But What About Security?
A team at FDA is in the midst of launching PrecisionFDA, a cloud-based platform so researchers can work together.
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Is Congress All Bark and No Bite on Encryption?
Even critics of the tech industry aren’t quite sure how to guarantee government access to terrorist communications.
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New 'Playbook' Details What It's Like to Work with 18F
Eight comprehensive principles aim to make it easier for agencies to work alongside 18F when building innovative services.
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DARPA seeks to map 'systems of systems'
Systems of systems, such as those found in 'smart cities,' hold great promise for integrating several types of functions, but DARPA officials see much room for improvement.
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National Science Foundation, Agriculture Release CIO-Boosting FITARA Plans
All agencies must publicly post their plans by Dec. 31.
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