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Why Spending More Money Isn’t the Answer to Federal IT Failures
The solution to federal IT security breaches looks to not be more money, but rather IT asset management, a recently released study says.
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Scientists Say All the World’s Data Can Fit on a DNA Hard Drive the Size of a Teaspoon
One gram of DNA can potentially hold up to 455 exabytes of data.
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In search of a mobile app standard
The CIO Council aims to standardize the way agencies vet mobile apps.
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Amid Open Data Push, Agencies Feel Urge for Analytics
Agencies are turning to industry, academia and outside researchers for cutting-edge analytics tools to parse through their data to derive insights.
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Will New Drone Regulations Stifle Innovation?
Regulators have a lot to consider when allowing commercial drone use—namely, how not to screw up the market potential.
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FAA Proposes New Rules for Commercial Drones
President Obama also released a memo that orders federal agencies to create drone policies that would protect citizens' privacy and civil liberties.
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‘Information Black Hole:’ Records, Photos and Tweets Could All Be Lost to Defunct Software
A top Google executive believes that today's electronic personal records, photos, and even tweets will all be lost to defunct software, resulting in a "forgotten century."
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Los Alamos knows bombs
The national laboratory has launched a Web portal aimed at helping public and private partners detect and deal with explosives.
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Privacy guidelines issued for government drones
New memo guards against cross-agency sharing, but leaves large loopholes.
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Why Were There So Many Third-Party Apps on HealthCare.gov, Anyway?
One expert called the large number of apps running in the site's background “digital overkill.”
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HHS Tries to Sell Startups on Open Data
In addition to opening certain data sets to the public, the department is trying to get entrepreneurs to come up with new ways to use that data.
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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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