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City Leaders Envision Future With Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles promise increased equity and efficiency, but a new report says governments need to make sure the right policies are regulating them.
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How NSA Motivated Employees to Keep Secrets in the 50s and 60s
Recently released security posters show whimsy and cultural savvy.
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How Gun Violence Decreased in Chicago
May was the city's 15th month of declining gun violence, which police attribute to increased hiring, strengthened community policing efforts and investments in technology.
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The Difficult Balance of Transparency and Privacy for Local Governments
“Risk will never be zero so it has to be actively managed,” according to Jason Lally, data services manager for the city and county of San Francisco.
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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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The Mayor of Memphis Wants to See His City Shrink
Mayor Jim Strickland and others are interested in "de-annexing" parts of the city.
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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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State and Local Governments Rely on Gig Economy to Fill Some Positions, Survey Says
“Positions filled via the gig economy may include those that have a high degree of independent contractors available … or which lend themselves to temporary services," according to the 2018 state and local government workforce survey.
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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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‘Government Is What We Do Together That We Can’t Do Alone’
As civic technologists gather for this year’s Code for America Summit, there are some key themes worth repeating.
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Judge Dismisses Kaspersky Lawsuit, Leaving Governmentwide Ban in Place
The Russian anti-virus company challenged administrative and legislative actions that banned its products from government and contractor networks.
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Council of State Governments Extends Overseas Voting Initiative
The partnership will evaluate electronic ballot systems among other technologies and policies.
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Hackers Find 65 Bugs in the Pentagon’s Travel Management System
The Defense Department’s fifth bug bounty awards $80,000 for spotting security holes in a travel system used by millions of the agency’s employees.
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No, You Shouldn't Roast Marshmallows Over a Volcano Vent
The social media team at the U.S. Geological Survey has answers to your volcanology questions.
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White House: Federal Agencies Remain Highly Vulnerable to Data Breaches Three Years After OPM
Many agencies could not detect if a hacker stole large amounts of sensitive data, the report found.
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Study: Hurricane Death Toll in Puerto Rico May be 70 Times Official Count
The official fatality figure after Hurricane Maria was 64. New research indicates it could exceed 5,000.
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Should There Be Mandatory Training Standards for School Resource Officers?
There are no national training standards for school-based officers, and in many cases no state standards, meaning crisis response can vary widely from place to place.
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DHS Has a Plan to Make You Stop Hating Airport Security
The agency is looking at ways to speed up passenger screening while improving security from "curb to gate."
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