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Jason Chaffetz Renews Call for Key OPM Official to Quit
OPM's Office of the Inspector General said the CIO's office has "interfered" with its work and provided it with "inaccurate or misleading information."
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VA Secretary: We Need to Simplify Website for Veterans
Veterans health sites should be renamed "Veterans.gov," the secretary suggested.
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How to Succeed in Silicon Valley
Lessons learned from an intensely competitive environment.
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Interior Department soars on Instagram
Social media is easier said than done for federal agencies, but the Interior Department's Instagram account is the very picture of success.
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VA’s Deputy CIO Takes New Job
Steph Warren oversaw VA’s $4 billion IT shop and its several thousand employees over the past two years, owning the agency’s cybersecurity strategy and answering repeatedly to Congress on its perceived IT vulnerabilities and the successful cyberintrusions of nation state-sponsored attackers.
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#ILookLikeAnEngineer Challenges Sexism and Showcases Real Women in Tech
The latest hashtag women in science and technology are using to challenge perceptions of what people in the field should look like.
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Navy drones, an innovation festival and predicting the grid
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
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IGs: Administration stymies access
Access to material need to conduct investigations has been curtailed since President Barack Obama took office, says the Justice Department IG.
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Can FITARA Prevent Future Cyberattacks?
A group of federal experts weighed in during a recent panel in Washington.
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White House Announces Expansion of Lab-to-Market 'Innovation Corps'
The National Science Foundation’s four-year-old Innovation Corps has just added many more federal agencies to its repertoire.
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Intelligence Community Research Agency Gets New Director
Jason Matheny had previously been in charge of IARPA’s “Anticipating Surprise” office, overseeing efforts to develop new capabilities in predicting and forecasting events related to national security.
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Federal CIO: Agile Won't Solve Everything
By itself, "agile" development won't solve the government's tech problems, Tony Scott said.
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Introducing the 2015 Bold Award Finalists
This year’s finalists include the social media team at the CIA and an effort by a VA team to secure Internet-connected medical devices.
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FDA Approves First 3-D Printed Drug
Pharmaceutical company Aprecia says 3-D printing will allow doctors to know the medicine they’re prescribing delivers the exact dose intended.
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Are we seriously talking about shutdowns again?
September 30 is much closer than it seems, and even a continuing resolution could run into snags.
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US Officials Warn That Medical Devices Are Vulnerable to Hackers
This new vulnerability could enable hackers to change the dosage of critical medicines.
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Census Plans 2016 Test Run to Experiment with New Tech Tools
Census is rolling out a handful of new options in 2020 designed to upgrade the decennial headcount for the digital age.
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In health apps, the game's the thing
Device-agnostic, gamified health apps will drive a new era of self-managed health care. If it isn't fun and well designed, it might not be worth pushing out at all.
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Obama Says Customer Experience is a Big Deal. Is it?
In recent years, the White House has prioritized customer experience as a pillar for government success.
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