Digital Government
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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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.
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Government Outpacing Private Sector in IPv6 Adoption, Official Says
More than half of public federal web domains are using the new protocol.
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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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