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Cloud failure temporarily crashes HealthCare.gov
The main public face of Obamacare is back in service after the latest in a string of embarrassing difficulties took it offline.
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What went wrong with HealthCare.gov?
Congressional hearing zeroes in on problems with testing, integration and project management.
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Want real innovation? Don't start from scratch!
The last thing federal IT needs is another 25-point plan. What's really required is some redefining.
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Michael Metzger: Thriving on unpredictability
As special assistant to the Defense Department's deputy chief management officer, Metzger can spend one day working with Congress and the next day briefing top-level Pentagon officials on efforts to reform DOD's financial management.
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Navy Yard answers remain elusive after shutdown
Report on police response to Sept. 16 shooting was due Oct. 21, but the government shutdown has slowed the investigation.
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Obama promises HealthCare.gov fixes, hawks low-tech workarounds
"Nobody's madder than me about the fact that the website isn't working as well as it should," the president declares, "which means it's going to get fixed."
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Carolyn Harvey: Saving money for HUD at GSA
This Rising Star secured six key IT contracts -- and saved $7 million -- in the first six months in her new role.
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Hetal Jain: Transportation's sustainability monitor
This honoree used an EPA-developed web tool to track information on DOT's teleworking, water use, energy use, employee travel, recycling, pollution and more.
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Grace E. Dalton: Coordinating email migration
This Rising Star was instrumental in coordinating the Army's effort to move 1 million people to enterprise email.
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HealthCare.gov needs less tech, more jugaad
Two architects of the world's most massive national ID system offer some ideas to fix the technological linchpin of the healthcare reform law.
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CMS struggles to remove sensitive information from cards
Fifty million Medicare cards reveal their holders' Social Security numbers, exposing them to identity theft.
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Eric T. Brassil: Freeing the flow of State Department reports
Thanks to this Rising Star, reports on 280 overseas posts are now easily accessible for Foreign Service officers and interagency employees.
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Rebecca Schwartz: Nanotechnology for the troops
Much of Rebecca Schwartz's research at Lockheed Martin is classified, but her work is generally geared toward developing technical solutions to reduce the physical burden of troops in combat.
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Fed tweeters back in action
The end of the shutdown brings expressions of relief, 140 characters at a time.
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Michael Shrader: Aiding small tech manufacturers
As a VP at Carahsoft, Shrader oversees more than 50 small companies.
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IT training trails new technology
The IT professionals who manage and operate federal systems are often unprepared to deal with technology advances because they lack time and money for adequate training.
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Start-ups: Can there be too much of a good thing?
Encouraging young people to take risks and pursue business ideas is well and good, but efforts to persuade students to skip college in favor of start-up work go too far, Steve Kelman suggests.
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Feds to get back pay after shutdown
Furloughed employees and those who stayed on the job without pay will be compensated.
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