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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Shocking anecdotes about outdated technology could be the key to growing IT budgets, according to one government official.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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CMS mulls big expansion of online user access
CMS is looking to create a rough draft of a system that could allow all beneficiaries to access information via a single login.
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8 Tough Questions for the New CIO of the Library of Congress
As the library's first permanent CIO in three years, Bernard A. Barton Jr has a wide array of plans for helping it flourish in the digital age.
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Can Social Media Tracking Make Medication Safer?
FDA is considering analyzing social media data to learn more about product safety.
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FAA drone deadline looms as apps bloom
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International said its study of FAA exemptions shows "a commercial market waiting to be unleashed."
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This Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Robot Arm Lets You Actually Feel What it Touches
The robotic arm is connected by wires that link up to the wearer’s motor cortex and sensory cortex.
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Will Subdrones Cause World War III?
Smart, well-armed and built to operate on their own, underwater drones are becoming a dangerous wildcard.
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Intelligence Community’s Grand IT Plan Still Working Out ‘Pain Points’
The initiative is in the midst of converging multiple networks – all tied to various legal authorities – into a single network.
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