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HealthCare.gov Still Gets Poor Marks for Customer Experience
The U.S. Postal Service and the National Parks Service get highest grades in government.
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Ryan and Murray’s Next Big Project: Better Use of Big Data
The budget wunderkinds want the federal government to use data to improve its efficiency.
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Republican Lawmakers Want More Accountability for US CTO Role
The new legislation would make it easier for lawmakers to compel the U.S. chief technology officer to testify before Congress.
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White House Promotes Tech Meetups
Under federal CTO Megan Smith, the White House hosted its first tech meetup, encouraging technologists from across the U.S. to network with each other.
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How Secure is an Email Tip Line for Federal Employees?
Congressman Mark Meadows announced on Thursday the launch of an email account for federal employees to send anonymous complaints about their working conditions, according to his website.
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Trade Bill Takes Aim at Foreign Governments' Data Protections
Tech companies and trade groups come out in support of the Trade Priorities Act.
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Federal Employees, Don’t Do This on Social Media
Ethics officials say they’ve been inundated with questions from agencies about how their employees’ Twitter and Facebook habits conform with govermentwide ethics rules.
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Congress to Introduce Last-Ditch Bill to Reform NSA Spying
With the clock winding down, lawmakers in both chambers are staging one last attempt to rein in the government’s surveillance powers.
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GSA's proposed pricing data rule questioned
Industry representatives voice concerns about compliance costs and protection of pricing information.
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Agencies Botch IT Savings Estimates by $3.8 Billion
Drastic revisions by the departments of Defense and Homeland Security accounted for most of the savings discrepancy.
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Shortage of IT Security Professionals not Unique to Government
The information security workforce gap isn’t a federal government problem; it’s a worldwide problem.
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SEC Reveals It Doesn’t Use Email Snooping Power It Defends
Chairwoman Mary Jo White said the commission isn’t using subpoenas to acquire emails from ISPs, despite a long-running defense of the practice.
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PortfolioStat savings slip, SCADA attacks soar, Army mulls civilian cyber and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
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Video: Making An Impact With Open Data
Why government needs more tools to get open data to the people.
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ACLU: Government Should Encourage Anonymous Browsing
In a statement, ACLU asserted that the two-year timeline is too slow, especially for sites used by inspectors general to collect reports about waste, fraud and abuse
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Google's Other Big Research Project: Curbing Its Own Prejudice
Even for a company that's trying to produce driverless cars and "solve" mortality, getting employees to overcome their own biases is a challenge.
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Cent’anni! A DARPA toast to long-life software
Research agency wants self-updating programs that can run for a hundred years.
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Former FBI Director Talks Cybersecurity
Mueller admitted it was his responsibility, as director of the FBI, to ask for clarification on broad technology projects.
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DARPA is spending big on big data
An analysis of DARPA's budget request for FY 2016 shows big data investments have increased 69 percent since 2014 and this might only be the beginning.
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