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Americans don't trust – or like, or use – most digital government resources

Even tech-obsessed millennials prefer to interact with the government via more traditional means, says a new report from Forrester Research.

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Survey: Most Americans Just Not That Into Uncle Sam's Digital Services

Less than half of people polled would like the federal government to focus its energy on creating more digital services, according to a new study.

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IT Pros Say Most Businesses Buy Cyber Tech Based on Cost, Not Security

Ninety percent of survey respondents said their companies had spent money on technology scrapped before, or soon after, deployment.

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Senate and House Bills Would Effectively End NSA Mass Surveillance

The effort would stop the spy agency’s bulk collection of U.S. phone records, the first and one of the most controversial programs exposed by Edward Snowden nearly two years ago.

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OMB: FITARA Guidance Coming This Week

The thrust of the new legislation gives agency CIOs greater power over their agency’s IT purse strings.

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How independent are IGs?

A report on how inspectors general balance competing interests comes at a difficult time in IG-agency relations.

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Here's How You Hack a Military Drone

Research studies on drone vulnerabilities published in recent years essentially provided hackers a how-to guide, an Israeli researcher says.

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GSA to Host Data-Infused Hackathon

Participants will be tasked with designing innovative tools to improve data collection at GSA and other agencies.

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FCC's Enforcement Bureau Cracks Down on Telecom Giants

In his first year on the job as chief of the FCC's Enforcement Bureau, Travis LeBlanc has issued some of the largest fines in the agency's history.

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What Good Is a Video You Can't See?

Police body cameras are meant to be a tool of public accountability. But even experts can't agree on how to make sure that happens.

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FEC plans interactive legal guides

The Federal Election Commission’s existing systems are notoriously clunky and tricky to navigate.

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Meet the Federal Government's Health Care IT Champion, Karen DeSalvo

The internal medicine specialist took office a little over a year ago -- 10 years after President George W. Bush's administration created the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

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Germans Are Paranoid that the US Is Spying on Their Data

Germany deeply distrusts how the U.S. handles digital data.

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DOD to Start Its Own Digital Service Team

The new squad is already working to transfer electronic health records to the Department of Veterans Affairs from DOD.

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3-D Microscope Uses Virtual Reality to Let You Explore a Molecule

Nanotronics Imaging has created a new system, called nVisible, that lets anyone walk through a three-dimensional, digital visualization of a microscopic landscape, using a virtual reality headset.

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Why Rand Paul is Suddenly Silent about NSA Surveillance

Rand Paul hates the Patriot Act and NSA mass surveillance. Just don't ask him what he thinks of fellow Kentuckian Mitch McConnell's plan to keep both alive.

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5 steps to truly client-centric metrics

IT departments can illustrate their value by customizing metrics to specific projects and linking their performance to the agency’s mission

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A New Look at How Federal IT Reform is Faring in 5 Charts

The new data measure the extent to which agency IT projects stay within budget and on schedule and the average time it takes to deliver key phases of a project.

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House Lawmakers Float Bill to End NSA Mass Surveillance

A bipartisan group is launching a final push to reform the government’s spying apparatus.