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Cloud offers a taste of Silicon Valley on the Potomac
DHS’s Keith Trippie says the cloud can boost government innovation while cutting up-front costs.
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DISA piloting DOD cloud security model
DOD agencies are testing framework with controlled unclassified information.
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Phone Companies Worry They'll Be Required to Store Customer Data for NSA
A move to get massive amounts of surveillance data out of the government's hands could backfire for some firms.
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IT infrastructure: The role of the cloud
Richard Spires explains how agencies can plan for an orderly and forward-looking consolidation.
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BlackBerrys Will Make Up 98% of Mobile Devices on New Defensewide System
About 80,000 of them and 1,800 Apple and Android phones and tablets will be managed by the system launching Jan. 31.
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The Internet of Bees Could Save Our Food Supply
Scientists attach tiny sensors to 5,000 honey bees.
Digital Government
Congress Tries to Curtail NSA Spying, Sort Of
Issue of eavesdropping on specific U.S. individuals’ communications is personal for Senators and House members.
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Issa, Connolly launch Cloud Caucus
The bipartisan group aims to "address the federal government’s dismal record of procuring and using information technology."
Emerging Tech
How iPhones are Forcing Banks to Rethink Brick-and-Mortar Branches
The biggest banks are reshaping how they interact with retail customers and in many cases shrinking their expansive branch networks.
Digital Government
Experts Say HealthCare.gov Could Be Hacked
Security consulting firms have identified 20 weak points on the site.
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Hard to talk? It’s training, not tech
A Virginia police official said the communications problems on the day of the Navy Yard shooting were a result of too much talking, not too little.
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Next up for acquisition workforce: virtual training
The Federal Acquisition Institute wants to develop mobile apps to help employees experiment with techniques and strategies in a low-risk environment.
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Social Security seeks software for private cloud
SSA was an early cloud computing adopter and is one of the few non-intelligence agencies to put big data to use.
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Border bots target tunnel smuggling
The wireless robot-based program is aimed at disrupting the flow of contraband without putting agents in harms' way.
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What You Need to Know About the New Internet Rules
Carriers can charge websites for faster service or even block some data from entering all together.
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GWAC goes social
The GSA portal is aimed at building a dialogue between government and contractors.
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Court Strikes Down Net Neutrality
But the three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit sided with Verizon's lawsuit, saying the FCC acted outside its authority by enacting the rules.
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Why Facebook Just Agreed to Give Data to Russia’s Biggest Search Engine
Russians prefer VKontakte, a home-grown social network that, in addition to connecting friends and groups, also functions as a dating site.
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