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HealthCare.gov 2.0: By the Numbers
How the second edition of the scandal-plagued website is doing.
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Where Top Tech Companies Recruit From
It’s a pretty tight labor market for tech talent, so there's a lot of poaching going on.
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FCC plans expansion of political ad data requirements
The commission plans to bring cable TV and radio under the same disclosure rules as broadcast TV.
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White House Kicks Off Recruiting For New Class of Innovation Fellows
Recruiting for the innovation fellows coincides with a big hiring push at the U.S. Digital Service.
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NOAA grapples with buying data from industry
The agency is still trying to decide how to address a looming lapse in weather satellite data.
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Obama’s Geek Squad Could Not Rescue DHS Green Card System from High-Risk List
ELIS, short for Electronic Immigration System and a tribute to Lady Liberty’s hospitality, has wound up on the High-Risk List.
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For the Federal IT Budget, Things May Finally Be Looking Up
Overall, the total federal IT budget proposed by the president would tick up to $86 billion, a 2.7 percent increase above the current year’s levels.
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Why Federal Agencies Want to Get on a First Name Basis With You
A small team within the Office of Science and Technology Policy is tasked with using techniques in the social and behavioral sciences’ toolbox to make the federal government more efficient.
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Tech transfer office opens, one in at DOE and one out at DHS
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
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Judge Dismisses Challenge to NSA Internet Surveillance
A California district judge found that "the Plaintiffs’ version of the significant operational details of the Upstream collection process is substantially inaccurate.”
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High-Risk List: Government IT Projects Fail ‘Too Frequently’
The government has wasted billions on botched IT projects that fail to deliver promised -- or any -- functionality and have been mothballed. Even more programs are still on the books, but remain at risk of falling behind
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New Brain Decoder Could Boost Neuroscience Research
The new brain-scanning technique could change the way scientists think about human focus.
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US Government Requests for Information on Twitter Users Spike
Most of the time, the publishing platform gave officials what they wanted.
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Why ‘Facebook at Work’ Might Work
One factor in Facebook’s favor: Millions of people are already using Facebook at the office.
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NGA banks on the power of transparency
Agency director touts data shared to combat Ebola, says open approach "is our future."
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Using SIGINT to detect trends
IARPA uses publicly available data to predict crises; now it wants to use signals intelligence for the same purpose.
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Growth in big data draws women to statistics
The field of statistics is booming, thanks in large part to the increased need for data analysts.
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This is What Agile Development Should Look Like in the Federal Government
The newly released Agile Government Handbook showcases best practices around agile development.
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OMB agrees to release government-wide data inventories
The "largest index of government data in the world" will soon be made public.
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