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How the U.S. Can Maintain the Undersea Advantage
The U.S. should not assume its military advantage is guaranteed under the sea, where the traffic and threats are getting more crowded than ever. By Adm. Jonathan Greenert
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FBI Investigates Laser Pointer Attacks on Airline Pilots
Pilots at New York City's LaGuardia airport were temporarily blinded.
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Obama: HealthCare.gov’s Product Is Good but the Cash Register’s Malfunctioning
The White House has recruited a tiger team to fix the ailing online health insurance marketplace.
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CIOs May Struggle to Keep IT Staff on Board Next Year
Another challenge to retaining the federal tech workforce: industrywide antsiness.
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A Meeting of the Minds on the Future of Defense
Request an invitation to the Inaugural Defense One Summit.
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Public Sentiment on HealthCare.gov Takes a Nosedive
There have been significantly more negative tweets about the online marketplace than positive ones since it launched.
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Americans Hate Federal Government, Love Federal Agencies and Employees
Shutdown may have deepened Americans' appreciation of government institutions.
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Hackers Blackmail Kids, Rob Cayman Islands, Mimic KFC Clientele
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
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Cybersecure: Supreme Court Justices Only Send Each Other Memos on Paper
'It's very heavy ivory paper—it looks like it came out of the 1800s or something. But it seems to work pretty well,' Justice Kagan says.
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Pentagon Spokesman George Little To Retire
George Little, who came to DOD from the CIA with Leon Panetta, announced he will retire Nov. 15 to spend more time with his young family. By Kevin Baron
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Did Politics Help Cause HealthCare.gov Failures?
Partisan rancor and heightened scrutiny may have caused less efficient site development.
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Missing Source Code, Poor Search Tools Plague Obamacare Website
Follow key reporting on the Obama administration’s signature policy initiative.
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After the Shutdown, Uncertainty Still Plagues Pentagon
Congress averted disaster and reopened the government for business as usual. That’s the problem, say Pentagon leaders. By Kevin Baron
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How to Get NSA's Attention (It's Art)
Gmail extension tacks text onto emails, algorithmically generated to be flagged by NSA filters.
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Telework Now Offered by 88 Percent of Organizations
Mobility increasing at most workplaces, despite a few visible defectors, including HP, Best Buy and Yahoo!
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Debt Deal Funds DHS to Take Over Air Force Border Blimps
Budget agreement transfers money from the military to Homeland Security to sustain the aerostat program.
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No NSA Poster Child: The Real Story of 9/11 Hijacker Khalid al-Mihdhar
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is wrong to claim today’s NSA data collection would have stopped 9/11. We had the technology and data to catch Khalid al-Mihdhar. By Michael German
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Security Flaw on 200 Government Websites Blamed on Shutdown
The vulnerability involves the way Web pages protect online forms submitted by people seeking government services.
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Less than 1 Percent of HealthCare.gov Visitors Successfully Enrolled in an Insurance Plan
About 10 percent of visitors successfully registered with the site during its first week online.
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