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To cut costs, Defense and VA scrap plans for new electronic health record
Instead of building a system from scratch, the departments will integrate existing systems.
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Lockheed Martin’s IT unit announces voluntary layoff program
The division has reported shrinking revenues.
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What government can learn from House of Cards
And it's not that Kevin Spacey could whip Congress into shape.
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Four Ways to Cut the Pentagon's Budget
Former exec suggests targeting military health care, overhead, excess infrastructure and acquisition.
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The five hottest IT jobs over the next five years
Workers will need more than tech skills to be successful though.
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Super Bowl blackout could energize a debate on power grid
Improvements could resolve the issues that took out power during the game.
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Feds want a more robust insurance database before Obamacare rollout
The government will use the contractor-managed repository to evaluate providers and update Healthcare.gov.
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John Kerry: 'Can a Man Actually Run the State Department?'
New Secretary of State says he has "big heels to fill."
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Why did the lights go out at the Super Bowl?
Entergy New Orleans who provides power to the Super Dome called the outage an abnormality.
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Federal IT recruiters look to high schoolers
Students invited to 'shadow' fed technology professionals to learn about the job and work.
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Defense positions a military cyber squad on DHS turf
Computer security experts react to Cyber Command proposal with optimism, blunted by reality that attacks are hard to foresee.
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VA kicks off massive study of veterans’ deaths
Analysts will focus first on those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Tech pros see largest pay spike in over a decade
Salaries for those who regularly use Hadoop, NoSQL and Mongo DB are all at six figures.
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New tech grads earn a lot more in industry than in government
Study shows the job market for computer science and engineering remains strong.
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Veterans disability claims system and customer service tool work better apart
Operating the systems together in the same cloud infrastructure caused December slowdown.
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U.S. agents rescue sex slaves through data fusion
Software that connects phone calls, money and old cases leads ICE to victims of human trafficking.
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Can computers predict medical problems? VA thinks maybe.
An advanced ‘clinical reasoning’ system will tap the Veterans Health Administration’s vast digital archive.
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Behind the Huge Plunge in Defense Spending
A 22 percent drop in one quarter drives down economic growth across the economy.
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Telework group expands into broader mobility issues
BYOD strategies will be part of the remade organization's portfolio.
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