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U.S. sending drones to hunt Libyan attackers
CNN reports that the United States will send unmanned drones to Libya to look for jihadist camps, as the White House now accepts the belief that the Benghazi attack was the premeditated work of terrorists
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Obama administration pushes to extend electronic surveillance law
Fate of legislation hangs in Senate.
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U.S. missile defense strategy is flawed, panel finds
Council calls for domestic defenses to be bolstered.
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GoDaddy outage briefly took down FedBizOpps, three other GSA sites
GSA didn’t directly contract with GoDaddy, spokesman says.
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Commission leaders call for emergency communications network
The attacks revealed the problems posed by a patchwork of emergency radio networks and devices that often do not work with each other.
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A continental network to monitor how we're trashing the environment
The National Ecological Observatory Network will feature dozens of monitoring stations to document land use patterns and ecosystem changes.
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Al Qaeda’s No. 2 in Yemen killed in airstrike
U.S. drone is believed to be behind the killing, officials said.
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Army, Marines want to give combat troops access to ‘cyber fire support’
Pentagon pushes to weave computer ops with ground missions.
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Overindulging at the data trough
In his book "The Information Diet," Clay Johnson confronts the endless stream of information that characterizes our daily lives.
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White House seeks unified system to manage interns
New intern platform would replace three legacy systems and five websites.
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An FBI battle over phone passwords Is brewing
The federal government has made it clear that a lot of our phone data isn't really ours.
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State-sponsored computer attacks grow increasingly ‘reckless,’ NSA official says
Debora Plunkett calls out nation-sanctioned cyber players.
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House to press agencies on customer service
A bill, expected to pass this week, would make it mandatory for agencies to factor customer service into employee appraisals.
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Pentagon receives ‘overwhelming response’ to Plan X cyber offensive
DARPA postpones release of official solicitation.
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Getting the prize purse right in tech contests is a challenge all its own
A major upside for agencies is competitors often invest more in solutions than the government pays out.
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Bing vs. Google blind showdown: Closer than you'd think
Bing asks Internet searchers to compare Google and Bing in their "Bing It On Challenge"
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American Systems to buy SAIC test and evaluation unit
Mounting budget pressures are likely to spur more acquisitions, spinoffs.
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How Google builds its maps—and what it means for the future of everything
An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps.
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Obama's sequestration report delayed
The administration says it needs more time to figure out the details on across-the-board budget cuts set to take effect in January, but the report itself expected to contain few surprises.
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