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DISA Plans To Tap Seven to 10 Vendors for Commercial Cloud Buy
Officials nixed the use of offshore storage.
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Air Force Takes First Step Toward Unified Pay and Personnel Records
Service awards IBM an $11.9 million deal to develop a blueprint for an integrated system.
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Feds: Give Us a Seamless Mobile Connection and We'll Get a Lot More Done
Outdated IT hinders productivity, survey of 209 top feds finds.
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NSA Searches 10 Times as Much of the Internet as It Said
The error was the result of bad math.
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NOAA retires long-serving weather satellite
GOES-12 more than doubled its initial life expectancy.
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Pentagon Weighs Enlarging Nuclear Surveillance Program
An upgraded monitoring system would fine tune algorithms and enhance data analysis to better detect foreign nuclear activity.
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DISA Plans to Spend $239 Million on Network Widgets through 2015
Agency says items appear on an approved product list.
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Army Plans to Buy 193,279 Rifleman Radios
Lightweight radios will be used by infantry squads.
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NASA Launches Mammoth IT Hardware Buy
Contracts worth between $5 billion and $10 billion can serve all federal agencies.
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Feds to tap commercial databases for Do Not Pay initiative
The government has plans to use commercial data to sniff out improper payments.
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State Awards $150M Desktop PC Deal to Nine Small Firms
Contracts are part of a global IT modernization program.
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White House Expands Guidance on Promoting Open Data
Agencies get specifics on goals for creating machine-readable formats.
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Tech Jobs on the Rise, and Not Just in the Usual Places
Massachusetts, Missouri and New Jersey see significant rise in IT openings, report finds.
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Agencies get how-to on open data compliance
OMB clarifies how policies apply to federal contracts and IT acquisition strategy.
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The Spat Between Microsoft and Google Is Getting Ugly
Both tech companies have been engaged in a series of battles using negative PR.
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US Sanctions on Iran Are Hindering Progress on Scientific Research
Employees of US journals are not allowed to handle manuscripts produced by Iranian government scientists.
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Is Lab-Grown Meat Good for Us?
No saturated fat, no heme iron, no growth hormone—cultured meat seems to have many potential benefits.
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Ignore Those Rumors: The White House Doesn’t Oppose IT Reform, Lawmaker says
The U.S. CIO and other officials are more supportive of reform than it might appear, according to Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va.
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If They Had to Choose, Cyber Pros Would Take More Staff Over Larger Budgets
The most important factor in improving security is having enough skilled cyber professionals, Black Hat attendees said.
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