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Agencies Aren't Honest About Tech Spending and Risks, Auditor Says
The Pentagon doesn't regard any of it's IT program 'high risk,' despite contrary GAO assessments.
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Senate panel pushes budget authority for CIOs
Should federal IT leaders have a seat at the budget table? Witnesses say yes, but caution that one approach does not fit all.
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Oops, VA Deletes 464,000 Home Loan Files
Sen. Ron Portman, R-Ohio, wants to know why.
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Company Drops its Protest of Forest Service Airtanker Awards
Aircraft may not be ready before fire season winds down.
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Demand for Tech Pros Continues to Climb
More candidates are rejecting offers than were six months ago.
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Family of Slain Navy Cryptologist Sues NSA, Verizon for Massive Snooping Operation
Class Action lawsuit seeks $12 billion in damages.
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The art and science of data
Using big data well takes creativity and an understanding of the goals.
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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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