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Pentagon Watchdog: Show Us the Cost Benefit Analysis of Cloud
A forthcoming DOD IG audit may soon shed light on the extent the Pentagon and its components perform cost benefit analysis before acquiring cloud services.
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Are These Collaboration Platforms Key to Improving Federal IT?
Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott announced the winning teams of the first-ever CIO Council IT Solutions Challenge.
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Delaware Divvies Up Seized Assets Without Oversight; South Dakota Preps for More Overdoses
Also: Pennsylvania leads successful veterans courts movement and Florida cities demand control over fracking and effective leadership on climate change.
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Wanted in Ann Arbor: A City Administrator With ‘10-15 Years Experience in Child Care’
That job qualification might seem odd, but is an important reality in some local governments.
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Senator Labels OPM Breach a ‘Federal Fumble’ of 2015
“The federal government still does not know -- and may not know for years to come -- the extent of the damage done by the massive OPM breach,” the report stated.
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Revamping IRS Electronic Fraud Detection Could Waste $18 Million a Year
A new Treasury audit found the IRS planned to run the new and old systems simultaneously.
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Texas Threatens to Sue Refugee Aid Groups; N.C.’s Venus Flytrap Felony
Also: New York City’s new sodium rules face litigation.
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Will Obama Step Into Divisive Land Squabble in Maine?
The president has the authority to designate national monuments with the stroke of his pen. But will he do so in the Pine Tree State?
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Route Fifty Viewcast on Dec. 8: Leveraging Data for State and Local Government Transformation
Register for our upcoming free, livestreamed event that’s focused on the role of data in government operations and performance.
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Leaked Pentagon Bomber Data, Scoop Up Toy Company Details on Kids, and Pinch Credit Cards from Wisconsin Resort
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
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L.A.'s Plan to Send Letters to Those Who Drive Through Prostitution Zones
Also in our Thanksgiving news roundup: Nebraska is ready for California’s thirsty ‘wolves,’ and Huntsville prepares to dominate Alabama.
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Secret DHS Audit Could Prove Governmentwide Hacker Surveillance Isn’t Really Governmentwide
The intrusion-prevention system, named EINSTEIN 3 Accelerated, garnered both ridicule and praise following the OPM hack.
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Emma, USCIS' New Virtual Assistant, Can Soon Answer Your Visa Questions
A rudimentary, text-based version of more advanced virtual assistants such as Apple's Siri, Emma interprets typed questions and direct users to relevant parts of the USCIS website.
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FDA Crowdsourcing its Way to Precision Medicine. But What About Security?
A team at FDA is in the midst of launching PrecisionFDA, a cloud-based platform so researchers can work together.
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Chinese, Others Hack Interior Data 19 Times
The incidents are unrelated to a previously disclosed assault on Interior networks connected to Office of Personnel Management systems, the agency says.
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New York’s Job-Saving Subsidies; Duluth’s Beloved Mayor Disappoints Fans
Also: Road workers in Kansas need winter coats and Eugene axes’ its unlicensed professional engineer.
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More on Woodrow Wilson’s Legacy of Segregating the Civil Service
The story of one dedicated federal employee whose career was destroyed.
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Next Step in DOD-VA Health Records Sharing: Doctors’ Scribbles and Other ‘Unstructured’ Data
One of the most important aspects of DOD’s future electronic health records system is its ability to pull in and display unstructured data in raw text from electronic health records.
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In Wake of Paris, How Prepared Are U.S. States, Cities?
Experts say that smaller U.S. cities may lack the resources needed to prevent or react to an attack.
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