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White House Releases New Tools for Digital Strategy Anniversary
Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel says the effort serves as 'a giant permission slip telling government now is the time to innovate.'
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VanRoekel touts digital strategy's first-year progress
Federal CIO showcases the progress the government made in the strategy's first year, looks to year two.
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What Google's X Lab Is Cooking Up Next
The company's secretive research office working on a number of neat tech innovations
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Feds make good on mobile deliverables
At the Digital Government Strategy's one-year anniversary, agencies get the promised guidelines for security and architecture.
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GSA wireless agreement called 'step in right direction'
The new blanket purchase agreement will simplify the acquisition of mobile voice and data services.
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House panel rejects BRAC request
Chairman cites uncertainty as reason to not start another round of base closures.
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We're Only Beginning to Understand How Our Brains Make Maps
The smell of your neighborhood pizzeria and the feel of a cracked sidewalk may be more important than researchers previously believed.
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Bill Would Extend Defense IT Worker Exchange Program
Program aims to improve communication, share expertise.
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Op-Ed: For CIOs, Size Shouldn’t Matter; Planning Does
Too often, program managers fail to establish realistic, achievable goals within their resources.
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Can open data change the culture of government?
U.S. CTO Todd Park believes the government's Digital Government Strategy will create a 'treasure trove' of economic opportunity. One year in, that benefit is in short supply, but other gains are emerging.
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The Integrated Electronic Health Record Mess
Defense’s decision to upgrade its system with commercial software looks like a big setback.
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Ten Key Skills for Landing a Big Data Job
Hiring managers want professionals who have a combination of Hadoop and Java expertise.
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VA Halves the Number of Claims Backlogged More Than Two Years
Veterans benefits chief says all such claims will be processed by mid-June.
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Pentagon Says 20 Vendors Can Meet its Electronic Health Record Needs
Defense acquisition chief says Pentagon will not get locked into proprietary software.
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GSA sets wireless purchase agreement
The General Services Administration's new blanket purchase agreement with the four major U.S. wireless carriers will not only allow the agency to consolidate service plans and centralize device management, it could save the government hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Op-ed: Combating Blood Money With Big Data
The shortest path to criminal networks is through analytics.
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DOD looking for new health records system
After a month-long review to determine the way forward in a joint electronic health records program with the Veterans Affairs Department, DOD officials now say they will open their end of the system to competition.
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Student Spies Trade NIH Research to China in Exchange for Tuition
The three scientists accused worked at New York University's Langone Medical Center conducting research on MRIs.
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China’s Bird Flu Has Been Conquered—at Least For Now
The total number of infections has not increased since the tally hit 131 on May 8 (including one in Taiwan) but China, and the rest of the world, are not out of the danger zone yet.
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