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Critical Update: How Federal Agencies Can Help Avert Quantum Catastrophe
The White House is working on plans to roll out new cryptographic systems that will require epic levels of funding from Congress and coordination, both within the government and in partnership with industry.
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Critical Update: How the Controversial JEDI Contract Changed the Pentagon
Experts say the doomed contract helped take cloud literacy at the Defense Department to the next level.
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Critical Update: How to Develop Apps for Supercomputers that Don’t Exist Yet
The Energy Department will soon launch machines capable of completing a quintillion calculations a second.
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Critical Update: Do You Know What’s In Your Software?
In the wake of several major cybersecurity incidents, the government wants to shore up its software supply chain. Two experts explain the merits of some approaches and why there’s no silver bullet.
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Critical Update: What Platform One Brings to the Pentagon’s Software Game
Air Force Chief Software Officer Nicolas Chaillan and industry experts explain how Platform One is eliminating barriers to entry for DevSecOps teams.
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Critical Update: The Programmers of Public Service
Meet two federal software developers: One at the start of their career and the other nearing the end.
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Critical Update: Disrupting Gene Editing
The CRISPR Cas 9 tool shook up the gene-editing space, leading to new possibilities, risks and questions about who and how the technology should be used.
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Critical Update: Let’s Talk About UFOs
What’s behind unidentified aerial phenomena observed by military officials? Are we alone in the universe? Nextgov asks some experts.
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Critical Update: Who’s Afraid of EMPs?
Electromagnetic pulses are frequently boogeymen in pop culture but the federal government takes real steps to prepare for them.
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Critical Update: Did COVID-19 Push More Agencies Into the Cloud?
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting mass telework means agencies must have moved more data, workloads and services into the cloud. Right?
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Critical Update: Inside NASA’s Digital Transformation
The space agency’s digital modernization is aimed at augmenting and improving three key mission areas, according to its chief data officer.
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Critical Update: The Government’s Cloud Anxiety
As more federal agencies shift to cloud computing, officials are reexamining the responsibilities customers and service providers must bear to secure data.
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Critical Update: NASA’s Big Plans For the Moon and Beyond
It’s a new era of spaceflight for America’s space agency.
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Critical Update: Why a Government Vulnerability Disclosure Program Is a Big Deal
The new policy could change the government’s relationship with hackers but some agencies have reservations.
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Critical Update: GSA's Centers of Excellence Program Evolves
The Centers of Excellence program started out working with agencies one at a time. But in less than three years, the program has sped up, staffed up and spread out across government.
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Critical Update: Reinventing the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Technology is important but keeping and developing talent will be crucial, NGA Director Vice Adm. Robert Sharp says.
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Critical Update: COVID-19 Challenges Test Veterans Affairs' Customer Experience Office
The Veteran Experience Office has been instrumental in ensuring veterans’ voices are heard and acknowledged, even amid a global pandemic.
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Critical Update: National Labs Pivoted to Help Fight COVID-19. Here's How.
Federal insiders offer a glimpse of how the global health care crisis sparked a new wave of multi-sector collaboration.
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Critical Update: Why the Pentagon’s Cybersecurity Certification Program Inspires Hope and Fear
The Defense Department’s Katie Arrington, and representatives from across the federal contracting community share perspectives on a new era dawning in U.S. cybersecurity policy.
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