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5 Tech Projects from HHS' Accelerator Demo Day
One is a mobile app that would help FDA researchers inspect fresh meat for bacteria at local grocery stores.
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VA Looking for 'Agile' Contractor to Design New Vets.gov in 2 Months
Vets.gov is intended to be a Web portal with a single sign-on veterans can use to access any VA services.
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How Companies Are Using LEGOs to Unlock Talent Employees Didn’t Know They Had
Both Google and NASA have used LEGOs to solve problems.
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Leadership Lessons from Elon Musk
What it's like to have the real-life Tony Stark for a boss.
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Detection test hunts nuclear traces with data
The new nuclear forensics system was tested earlier this summer after a two-year research and development effort.
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18F's Startup-Friendly Agile BPA Hits First Hurdle -- a Protest
GSA has received multiple protests on its new contract vehicle, Nextgov confirmed.
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Agencies Saved Billions by Cutting Low-Priority IT Projects. But What Did They Do With the Savings?
Many agencies aren’t properly tracking how they’re using the cost savings to fund innovative new projects.
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Wi-Fi for the Pentagon, Data Act as management tool
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
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Why Scientists Make Bad Entrepreneurs—and How to Change That
While Silicon Valley creates billionaires before they turn 30, no Nobel Laureate has ever become a billionaire.
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Agencies Say They Need Access to Americans’ Emails Without a Warrant
But FTC and SEC have not used the current subpoena process in five years.
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Obama and White House Tech Advisers Tweet Support for Clock-Making Teen
Ahmed Mohamed now has an invitation to the White House.
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Classified Smartphones, Silicon Valley Worker Swap and 3 Other Takeways from the Pentagon CIO Briefing
During a media call, Pentagon CIO Terry Halvorsen told reporters how the department plans to learn from the private sector.
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DARPA Robotics Challenge: What We Learned
The cutting-edge agency takes a look back on one of its biggest challenges.
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IG Cites Lax Oversight of HealthCare.gov Contractors
Contracting personnel at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services failed to follow basic contracting rules.
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CIOs: Tell Your Legacy IT Horror Stories
Shocking anecdotes about outdated technology could be the key to growing IT budgets, according to one government official.
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More HealthCare.gov problems, new VP at ITI and Census' startup app
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
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Americans Agree Computer Science Is Important—But Only One-Quarter of US Schools Teach it
This study provides us with yet another painful reminder of how our education system is out of touch with and slow to respond to opportunities for our kids’ futures.
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FBI: Weaker Encryption Is a Worthwhile Tradeoff for Law Enforcement Access to Data
Government officials sparred with privacy advocates over encryption, but acknowledged that “back doors” come with risks of intrusion.
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New CIO plans long-overdue upgrades at Library of Congress
A March GAO report called out five key weaknesses in Library IT, and Bernard A. Barton Jr. hopes to address all of them.
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