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IT Reform Act Could Hitch a Ride on Major Defense Bill
Sponsors will offer the overhaul as an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act.
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Commentary: The NSA leaker and Highly Skilled but Academically Ordinary Workers
There's an underground high-tech economy.
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Pakistan May Un-Block YouTube—or It May Just Block All of Google
The country's incoming minister for information technology and telecommunications hopes to restore access to YouTube.
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Vets Need Help Moving Into Tech Careers After Military Service
Many have trouble describing their skills in civilian terms.
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Contractors to Handle Marines Corps' Cyber Arsenal
Reliance on non-government employees for sensitive operations raises questions about insider threats.
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Commerce Seeks Unified Customer Management System
The cloud-based system will replace numerous legacy programs.
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Los Alamos Lab gets its own app
The once-secretive government lab that gave birth to the atomic bomb now offers history and news to anyone with an iPhone.
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Weather satellite recovers for storm season
A geostationary satellite that had been shut down after getting hit by a meteor is back in action.
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How the Post Office's 'eye in the sky' fights fraud
With heat maps, predictive modeling and data streams provided by private-sector firms, USPS' RADR system sounds like an intelligence project -- minus all the secrecy.
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NSA Should Start a 411 Service
The companies running it now don’t seem to have many phone numbers.
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Edward Snowden’s Lesson to Both Businesses and the NSA: Your IT People Are Your Biggest Risk
Whether you’re running a 20-person office or the world’s biggest intelligence agency, remember who has the power to blow you up.
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Visualizing the Stunning Growth of 8 Years of OpenStreetMap
Of course, these people know how to map their own mapping exploits.
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Silicon Valley is More Involved in National Security Than You Think
NSA's data operations are largely privatized.
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Government’s Data Grabs Are Unlikely to Prompt Legislative Action
Lawmakers have little appetite for undoing legislation that allowed the sweeps.
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Putting open data to use
Posting spreadsheets to Data.gov is no longer enough. Agencies are increasingly using open data — their own and from other sources — in pursuit of core missions.
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Every Library and Museum in America, Mapped
America's collection of museums and libraries is actually super impressive when you look at it on a map.
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Moneyball Diplomacy
New data analysis tools could add a quantitative layer to how the U.S. manages foreign policy.
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Wanted: A rockstar developer for Data.gov
GSA wants to bring the talent behind its open-data project in-house.
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Does government reward innovation?
Innovation comes with inherent high risk, Steve Kelman observes. The federal government makes it even riskier by punishing failure but barely rewarding success. Has a city in China found a better way?
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