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California Confronts Its Daunting Pension Shortfalls
Cuts in services may be the only answer, though activists hope to amend the constitution.
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A Step Forward for a World War I Memorial in D.C.
The congressionally chartered U.S. World War I Centennial Commission has opened an international design competition.
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Pentagon Kills $475M Cyber Contract
The solicitation would have outsourced support for cyberspying and network attacks against foreigners, as well as the defense of military networks.
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Hackers Scavenge CareFirst and Manipulate the Federal Reserve
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
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Cybersecurity Risk or Building Block for More Open Government?
Supporters of IT inventorying legislation in California say it will improve access and spark innovation. But some fear it could help cyber criminals zero in on local governments.
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Inside the USAJobs Revamp and Other Digital Summit Highlights
Successful programs tended to come at problems from a user-centric point of view.
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Watchdog Says Agencies Aren’t Tracking How Much They Spend on Smartphones
The federal government spends about $1.2 billion each year on circa 1.5 million mobile devices and services.
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A Municipal Innovation Priority: People Want Information And ‘They Want It Now’
Rosetta Carrington Lue, Philadelphia’s chief customer experience strategy, innovation and technology officer, discusses principles of the customer service experience.
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Teaching Federal Contracting Officers About Agile Could Net You $320,000
This comes as GSA pushes for an agile blanket purchasing agreement.
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3-year Prison Sentence for Hacker Who Fraudulently Ordered $1M Worth of Agency Office Supplies
The Nigerian had faced up to 20 years in prison for phishing feds at EPA, the Census and other agencies.
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A Way to Fix Illinois’ Pensions Crisis?
Shifting costs to local school districts and universities seems inevitable. But that solution “is not at simple as moving the burden off of the state,” says the deputy executive director of the Illinois Association of School Boards.
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VA Wants Your Help Building Better Prosthetics
The aim of the project is to build a suite of special prosthetics and other state-of-the-art technologies to support wounded veterans in their day-to-day lives.
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Single Sign-On For Government Applications Coming in Weeks
Citizens could soon manage most of their government accounts on one website.
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Navy Needs Help Making Sure Its Drones are Hack-Proof
Aerial weapons systems were not expected to become part of the so-called Internet of Things.
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Water Demand Outpaces Supply in Colorado River Basin Communities
A new Bureau of Reclamation report offers municipalities a number of innovative ways to conserve and reuse the strained natural resource.
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What the Pentagon Thought the Future of Cybersecurity Would Look Like in 2001
The agency forecasted things like touch screens and automated cyber defense.
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What Will Happen to Truck Stop Towns When Driverless Truck Technology Expands?
In just a few years, communities that depend on the trucking industry for their vitality will be facing major economic disruption.
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Building a Robot in Your Garage? You Could Get a DARPA Contract in Less Than a Month
DARPA's new Robotics Fast Track effort aims to reduce the proposal-to-contract turnaround time to less than a month.
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Government Outpacing Private Sector in IPv6 Adoption, Official Says
More than half of public federal web domains are using the new protocol.
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