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How the VA is Personalizing Veteran Services With a Single Website
The VA Digital Service thinks veterans shouldn’t have to know the agency’s bureaucracy to find the benefits they’re looking for.
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Modernization Board Awards Half Its First Year Funding to Three Projects
They are the first projects to receive Modernizing Government Technology funds.
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Bill Would Prevent States from Messing with Encryption
The bill comes amid an encryption debate that pits national security against cybersecurity.
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DOD Must Comply with DHS Cybersecurity Directives Under Senate Bill
Homeland Security has issued numerous binding cybersecurity directives recently, including banning Kaspersky anti-virus and mandating email security.
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House Homeland Votes Against Demanding ZTE Threat Report
Homeland Security is already sharing information about threats posed by the Chinese telecom, Chairman Michael McCaul argued.
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GAO Probing FCC Claims of Denial-of-Service Attack
Critics have questioned whether the FCC’s commenting site was actually hit with a distributed denial-of-service attack or just deluged with comments opposing net neutrality repeal.
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GSA Announces New Start Date for $50B IT Service Contract After Legal Challenges
The Alliant 2 Unrestricted contract awards survived four lawsuits, but the delay means a later start and a later end date.
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Pentagon’s Second Multibillion Cloud Contract to Be Bid in Coming Months
Officials say the Defense Department’s multibillion Defense Enterprise Office Solutions contract is expected to be bid out in the fourth quarter of this fiscal year.
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Report: Trust in Data, Computing Power Are Keys to Embracing Emerging Tech
Agencies should strengthen endpoints to handle new technologies like AI and extended reality, a report suggests.
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Huawei Slams FCC Efforts to Bar It From Federal Communications Program
Government officials say the Chinese telecom poses a hacking threat to national security.
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How NIH is Organizing Its Enormous Troves of Data
The agency has a new strategic plan for how to manage, store and analyze its scientific data.
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The U.S. Navy Is Developing Mothership Drones for Coastal Defense
The service is looking to accelerate the way it buys, builds and drills drones and robotic ships.
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Interior is Using Drones to Save People Trapped by Hot Lava
They’ve also been faster and safer than putting boots on the ground, a department official said.
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Pentagon Answers JEDI Pricing Questions But No RFP Yet
For the first time, the Pentagon’s JEDI cloud procurement has hit a time snag.
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DHS Wants to Take a Page from the Startup Community
The agency's goal is to get ahead of emerging tech.
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Report: Citizens Have Better Experience With Airlines, Insurers Than Federal Agencies
Agencies aren’t getting any better at customer experience despite the focus, a survey found.
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GAO Rules Against Pentagon's Experimental $950 Million Cloud Deal
The Government Accountability Office recommended the Defense Department terminate a contract awarded to REAN Cloud in February.
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How the NGA App Store Put Tech Acquisition in Top Gear
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency can bring innovative software tools to government in as little as a few months.
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Government Report IDs the Need For Speed in Cyber Hiring
The report from the Commerce and Homeland Security departments also urges more investment in cyber education and training.
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Another Defense Agency to Tap CIA's Commercial Cloud
Documents indicate the Army’s National Ground Intelligence Center aims to provision secret and top secret cloud services from the Amazon-developed C2S Cloud.
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