Digital Government
NOAA retires longest-serving satellite
The NOAA-17 satellite provided weather and climate data for more than three times its life expectancy.
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Anxiety, Traditional Medicine, and Plenty of Purell: Beijing Watches and Waits for Bird Flu
"From day one we were getting a lot of phone calls from nervous patients."
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Is Government Cool Again for IT Pros?
One CEO predicts a wave of new fed IT hires as workers leave because of sequestration or retirements.
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Lies, damned lies and budget forecasts
The president's budget is a valuable guide to administration priorities, but agency executives should know better than to count on any one number.
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Well, what ARE the Air Force's cyber weapons?
The Conversation: FCW's reporters and editors respond to your comments.
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President’s Budget Moves Spending Transparency Site from GSA to Treasury
The move could be good or bad news for transparency advocates.
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Pentagon’s $1.45 Billion Health IT Budget Request Includes Spectacles
System for ordering eyeglasses cuts processing time for deployed patients.
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Obama Slashes Border Surveillance by $100 Million, Against Lawmakers’ Wishes
Both parties back bills to block illicit trafficking by deploying more digital detection tools.
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House Oversight Chairman Calls IT Budget Request Misleading
Poor reporting makes it impossible to tell whether IT spending is up or down, Issa says.
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VA Seeks a 10 Percent IT Funding Boost in 2014
The top development priority is the integrated electronic health record with Defense.
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Will IT spending survive coming budget battle?
Budget 'rosier than expected,' reflecting role of technology as money-saver, analyst says.
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NOAA's budget boost could help weather satellite program
A proposed increase could enable the science agency to develop new satellites faster, but still might not prevent a coverage gap.
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Study: Google Searches Reveal Mental Health Patterns
Search terms implied that people are 24 percent less likely to consider suicide in the summer, among other seasonal fluctuations that may be useful in epidemiology for illnesses that are difficult to track.
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The Real Data Center Revolution
Server farms as they now exist are not sustainable in an increasingly networked world.
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A media double standard?
After encountering a problem with some commercial tax-preparation software, Steve Kelman wonders how the media would have reacted to the same thing happening with a government product.
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Senior Execs Have a Rosier View of Their Jobs
Survey shows gaps in how top managers and rank-and-file employees view their work.
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There’s a Word for VA’s Paperless Claims System
For some employees, VBMess is now shorthand for the Veterans Benefits Management System.
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2014 Budget Invests in IT Workforce
Goals include identifying specific skills gaps in mission critical occupations like IT and cybersecurity, modifying the federal personnel system, addressing the pending retirement wave and expanding telework programs.
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Despite cuts, NASA has big plans for exploration and IT
Overall funding request is down, but key programs see significant bumps in Obama's budget request.
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