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How a Bot is Changing Federal Tech Purchasing
Bots from two vendors were bidding against each other to work on part of a recent cloud contract.
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Lawmakers: Will Census Tech Be Ready to Test or Not?
Concerns about the timeline stem from a June 9 hearing that revealed many key systems haven’t been deployed and the program opted to buy commercial-off-the-shelf products,
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DARPA Wants Artificial Intelligence To Explain Itself
If humans can't understand why AI systems make certain decisions, they probably won't trust them.
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Why the A-130 Update is a Huge Deal for Government
A-130 focuses on three key elements: real-time knowledge of the environment, proactive risk management and shared responsibility.
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NASA Taps Six Companies to Make Habitats That Could House Astronauts on Mars
The space agency has tapped six private companies, and committed.
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DHS Offers $40M for Data-Driven Decisions
The Homeland Security Department is creating a quantitative analysis center of excellence.
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How People Make Closing DOD Data Centers Difficult
Choosing which data center to close can be less complicated than figuring out what to with the feds who worked there.
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Which Vendor is the Big Cloud Winner?
IBM banked $2.7 billion in cloud dollars in the last five years.
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White House Cyber Commission Wants To Hear From You
Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity seeks insight on how to secure digital space now and in the future.
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Wearing Shorts at the Pentagon: Inside DOD’s Digital Service Team
Google’s Matt Cutts went to Quora on Tuesday to answer questions about his work at DOD.
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No, Hillary Clinton’s Emails Didn’t Lead to the Death of a U.S. Spy
Who revealed the truth about an American spy?
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FedRAMP Ready? GSA Releases Template to Figure It Out
Cloud service providers can assess whether they're ready for FedRAMP authorization with a new template.
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US Digital Service Turns 2
The White House made use of USDS’ second birthday to highlight its most significant work.
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OPM Gets New CIO from Pentagon
David DeVries, DOD's principal deputy CIO, plans to join the agency in the coming weeks.
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New DHS Accelerator Seeks Wearable Tech for First Responders
The department wants to modify commercial products for government use.
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Intelligence Community Wants Multilingual Text Search
IARPA is looking for a system that can search databases in other languages.
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White House Drops Final Federal Source Code Policy
OMB says Code.gov, a repository for federal open source software code, is coming in the next few months.
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Part of the Federal Cloud That Stopped Growing
Though the market came to include calendar management, customer relationship management and internal and external websites, it declined 16 percent to $539 million in fiscal 2015.
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Carper: ‘Election Security is Critical’
A foreign actor's cyberattack on election systems could jeopardize the integrity of the voting process, according to the senator.
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How Vulnerable to Hacking is the Election Cyber Infrastructure?
With the DNC email leak and Trump calling on Russia to hack Clinton's emails, concern about foreign meddling in the 2016 presidential election process is rising. Is e-voting the next cyber battleground?
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