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VA Continues Facing Onslaught of Cyberattacks
The Department of Veterans Affairs blocked more than 1 billion cyber threats in April.
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NSA Starts to Shut Down Mass-Spying Program
Republicans said the White House was being "disingenuous" by threatening to shutter the surveillance program. "That process has begun," an official said.
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Roth: Data is key to GSA succcess
GSA Administrator-designate Denise Turner Roth sees value in harnessing data to drive efficiencies and cost-effectiveness for federal customers.
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US Has Space Experts Worried About an Extraterrestrial Land Grab
Plans to make money in space are missing one of the fundamental ingredients to any business: property rights.
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SBA Wants To Know How Big Data Affects Small Business
It's common for large businesses to make data-driven decisions, according to the Small Business Administration. But can small businesses do the same?
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What Would Happen if Patriot Act Section 215 Expires
Edward Snowden’s leaks revealed that NSA was interpreting the law to vacuum up millions of U.S. call records every day.
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FCC Prepares to Become the Internet's Privacy Cop
Internet providers will soon face new rules on how they can handle customer information.
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Obama Admin: Senate Needs to Pass NSA Reform Now to Avoid National Security 'Uncertainty'
With the House out for Memorial Day, it’s up to the Senate to handle the coming expiration of key provisions of the Patriot Act.
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BLS on CPI: I'm old fashioned, but I don't mind it
One of economics' most important numbers depends on data collected by hand – data that's largely already online, posted freely by merchants and their customers.
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John Boehner on NSA: The Senate Must Act, But 'We’ll Certainly Look at What They Do'
The House speaker's remarks on Thursday suggest his chamber hasn't written off a "clean" renewal of the Patriot Act.
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Watchdog Says Agencies Aren’t Tracking How Much They Spend on Smartphones
The federal government spends about $1.2 billion each year on circa 1.5 million mobile devices and services.
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When It Comes to Protecting their Data, Americans Still Trust the Government More Than Facebook
Six percent of Americans say they’re “very confident” records maintained by federal agencies will be kept private and secure.
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Huge Data Sets Are Changing How Humans Observe the Universe
All this data is creating a new class of astronomer, one who doesn’t have to gaze skyward to understand the heavens, but instead has to go no further than a laptop.
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Teaching Federal Contracting Officers About Agile Could Net You $320,000
This comes as GSA pushes for an agile blanket purchasing agreement.
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Special Operators Are Using Rapid DNA Readers
Conducting a midnight SEAL raid on a terrorist compound? Positive DNA identification is just 90 minutes away.
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App Glitches Cost Agencies Millions of Dollars in Lost Productivity
From email to enterprise-resource planning systems, applications are often critical to keeping agency operations running along.
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Obama Admin: NSA Spying Will Begin Shutting Down This Week
A Justice Department memo circulated Wednesday says lawmakers only have until Friday—not June 1—to resolve their standoff over NSA surveillance without risking an interruption to the program.
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Secret US Military Space Drone Heads Back to Orbit
The flying robot looks like a shrunken down version of the Space Shuttle—and we still don’t know exactly what it will do up there.
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NASA seeks robotic spacecraft for asteroids, Mars
The technologies could play key roles in the future redirection of Earth-bound asteroids and the colonization of Mars.
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