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McConnell To Allow Vote On NSA Reform Bill
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday he will allow a vote on the House-passed NSA reform bill later this week, but there are no guarantees it will pass.
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Single Sign-On For Government Applications Coming in Weeks
Citizens could soon manage most of their government accounts on one website.
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Burr Preps NSA Backup Plan as House Threatens to Leave Town
McCarthy says the House won't budge from its insistence that the Senate pass the USA Freedom Act.
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Chris Christie: Edward Snowden Is a Criminal and NSA Fears Are 'Baloney'
The Republican governor and likely White House hopeful will accuse Hollywood and “civil-liberties extremists” of hijacking the NSA debate in a speech Monday.
Digital Government
Government Outpacing Private Sector in IPv6 Adoption, Official Says
More than half of public federal web domains are using the new protocol.
Digital Government
Congressman Wants Federal Buildings Outfitted with Bird-Friendly Features
The Federal Bird-Safe Buildings Act aims to reduce the number of birth deaths resulting from birds flying into federal buildings.
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When Washington Comes to SXSW: The New Head of the Patent Office on Creative Destruction
There are a lot of things you might imagine seeing at SXSW, but the swearing in of a top U.S. government official probably isn't one of them.
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The Senate Is About to Decide the Future of NSA Spying
What happens when an unstoppable force building behind surveillance reform meets an immovable object in Mitch McConnell?
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Police Data Initiative aims to 'increase transparency'
Two goals of the Police Data Initiative are to enhance interoperability of systems and make it easier to extract useful insights from collected data.
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Can Wikipedia forecast the flu?
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory say Wikipedia article access logs are highly correlated with historical influenza-like illness records.
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Navy’s New Binoculars Can Identify You From 700 Feet Away
Collecting on-the-ground intelligence may have become a bit safer.
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Federal CTO Hopes Digital Teams Will Outlast Obama Administration
Addressing an audience at a conference in Washington, D.C., Smith talked about federal efforts to attract more private sector technologists into the federal government.
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FITARA Guidelines Garner Little Feedback on GitHub -- So Far
So far, the buttoned-up federal IT industry appears more willing to share its thoughts on the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act the old-fashioned way -- by email.
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Dump-DUNS caucus weighs in on the Data Act
The federal government uses the proprietary DUNS identifier to code financial transactions, but with Data Act implementation in full swing, open-data advocates are pushing to go open source.
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When search knows what you need
In his new book, Microsoft’s Stefan Weitz previews what predictive analytics could mean in practice.
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McConnell Introduces Short-Term Reauthorization of Patriot Act
The majority leader’s new legislation would extend NSA mass spying only until July 31.
Digital Government
A few agencies need to up their game on records
All agencies are required to designate a senior official at the assistant secretary level to oversee records management policy, but not all have.
Digital Government
Metadata is the Missing Ingredient in Agencies’ Move to Electronic Record Keeping, Watchdog Says
Guidance for automatically transferring permanent records to the National Archives and Records Administration lacks metadata requirements. That could make parsing through electronic records difficult.
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FAA Wishes People Would Stop Flying Drones Near the White House
An illegal amateur flight near the executive mansion Thursday ended with the pilot arrested.
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