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Army's Unmanned Helicopter Passes Key Test
The Army’s signature rotorcraft, equipped with new hardware and software, shows off a new self-piloting capability and robotic teaming.
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America to Census: 'No comment'
As the Census Bureau pushes ahead on incorporating other agencies' administrative records into its database, the American public stays silent.
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Budget deal passes, but appropriations work remains
The president is prepared to sign a bill that will raise the debt ceiling and set funding levels through fiscal 2017, but agency appropriations are still needed by Dec. 11.
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No STEM Training? You Can Still be a Defense Cyber Intel Analyst
The Defense Intelligence Agency's cyber teams have room for "soft skills" and STEM training.
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Want DOD To Be More Innovative? Sorry, Government Is Inefficient on Purpose
“You can't have the entire U.S. government or the federal acquisition regulations change so we can do innovation,” says the head of a small arm of the Pentagon designed to facilitate rapid research and development of tools
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HHS seeks innovative tech for disease surveillance, new bill targets tax delinquent feds and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
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Court OKs One Last Month of NSA Mass Spying
The small victory for the government allows NSA to maintain its bulk-surveillance program throughout a 180-day transition period.
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Video: 5 Tips and Tricks for OS X El Capitan
A new operating system means all new shortcuts.
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Should VA Scrap VistA? CIO Evaluates Future of Home-Grown Health Records System
The assessment comes amid ongoing concerns about the multiple, failed attempts to develop interoperable electronic health records between VA and DOD.
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Congress to Review FITARA Scorecards Next Week
The hearing, on implementation of the 2014 Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act, is tentatively slated for Nov. 2.
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IBM’s Plans for the Weather Channel? Put Supercomputer Watson to Work
IBM will be able to bring the full force of big data to predicting the weather.
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The New Northrop Grumman-Built Bomber Will Be Air Force’s Most Futuristic Plane
After years of internal Pentagon fighting to keep the project alive, the air service reveals a builder, but little else.
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Cyber complacency, the Pentagon-COTS conundrum, an SES survey and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
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Census Bureau on the Hunt for New CIO
The agency posted an opening for an associate director for information technology and CIO to oversee the agency's IT portfolio.
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Video: Windows 10 Tricks You Probably Didn't Know About
How to make the most out of your computing experience.
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Agricultural data is a new cash crop, but who reaps the harvest?
Farmers and businesses need to hash out property rights and privacy issues as big data pervades American agriculture -- especially if they want to avoid regulation by Congress.
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DOD's head of Silicon Valley outreach sees post-Sony opening
Last year's hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment put private industry in a mood to do business with the Pentagon, says the head of the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit Experimental.
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IC plans Intelligence.gov as part of transparency effort
U.S. spy agencies are trying to come in from the cold, on a limited basis, under the banner of open government.
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White House touts new open government goals for 2016
The White House unveiled the latest version of its open government plan, promising more user-friendliness, preemptive disclosure of government information, enhanced online services for Freedom of Information Act requests and more.
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