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Fuzzy Space Law Is Forcing the U.S. to Update its Orbital Regulations

There soon could be an "Office of Space Commerce.”

  • By Tim Fernholz, Quartz

The Homeland Security Department Just Hired a UK Firm of 20 People to Help With Border Security

iProov will roll out its biometric facial verification technology to help U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

  • By Lianna Brinded, Quartz

Uber Agrees to Expanded Data Breach Settlement With FTC

The ride-sharing company tried to conceal a 2016 data breach through its bug bounty program.

  • By Joseph Marks

AI Experts Want Government Algorithms to Be Studied Like Environmental Hazards

They also believe automated decision-making systems should be continuously monitored.

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz

General Dynamics Completes CSRA Buy

General Dynamics finalized its acquisition of IT contractor CSRA for $9.7 billion.

  • By Frank Konkel
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Musk and Zuckerberg Are Fighting Over Whether We Rule Technology—Or it Rules Us

The default setting for Silicon Valley is in question.

  • By Michael J. Coren, Quartz

Trump’s Complaints About Amazon Have a Historical Precedent

The fraught history of government-subsidized package delivery.

  • By Alana Semuels, The Atlantic

Bidding War Over? CACI Withdraws Offer To Buy CSRA

CACI withdrew its $7.2 billion offer to purchase IT contractor CSRA.

  • By Frank Konkel
The National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md. The National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md.

AT&T Won Secret $3.3 Billion NSA Contract Despite More Expensive Bid

Legal documents shed light on one of NSA's most important tech contracts.

  • By Frank Konkel
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Five Myths About Pentagon Weapons Programs

As the service secretaries converge on Capitol Hill to talk acquisition reform, it’s important to sort fact from fiction.

  • By Frank Kendall, Defense One

CSRA Rebuffs CACI Bid

After receiving an unsolicited bid Sunday from CACI, CSRA and General Dynamics sweetened their original merger agreement.

  • By Frank Konkel

CACI Looks To Top General Dynamics' Bid For CSRA

The bid expires April 2.

  • By Frank Konkel
A Russian Soyuz 2.1b rocket carrying Meteor M satellite and additional 18 small satellites, lifts off from the launch pad at the new Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky. A Russian Soyuz 2.1b rocket carrying Meteor M satellite and additional 18 small satellites, lifts off from the launch pad at the new Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky.

The Military Race for Space Will Turn on the Ability to Choose Commercial Services

Like a befuddled consumer facing an entire aisle of jams and jellies, the Pentagon can’t figure out how to buy smart in an exploding market.

  • By Patrick Tucker, Defense One
Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan visits Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington. Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan visits Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington.

Pentagon Tells Leaders to Talk More With Contractors — and Less to the Public and Press

One day after Air Force leaders severely restricted media contacts, Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan encouraged Pentagon officials to engage more with industry.

  • By Marcus Weisgerber, Defense One

Agencies Need to To Quit Being Difficult Customers If They Want Startup Tech

Even posting project solicitations in more popular places could help agencies find new partners solutions, tech experts said.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Here's How Many Bad Ads Google Purged From The Web Last Year

It's in the billions.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Microsoft Still Fixing Spectre and Meltdown Flaws

These complex vulnerabilities can't be patched overnight.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
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YouTube Is Turning to Wikipedia to Help It Fight Conspiracy Theories

The company also wants to include other “information cues."

  • By Josh Horwitz, Quartz

Protest on JEDI Cloud Support Contract Dismissed

The Government Accountability Office dismissed a bid protest filed in February against a $7 million sole-source cloud support contract related to the Defense Department’s JEDI Acquisition.

  • By Frank Konkel

Defense Agency To Begin Moving Classified Data to Amazon's Secret Cloud After Protest

Microsoft withdrew a bid protest that allows U.S. Transportation Command to begin migrating data to Amazon’s secret cloud region.

  • By Frank Konkel