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Homeland Security Exploring Body Cameras for Border Patrol

The agency issued a request for information for both body-worn cameras and vehicle-mounted camera systems.

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The Recovery of California's Biggest Reservoir, as Seen by NASA

Satellites highlight Lake Shasta’s year-long progress from a virtual dust bowl to a healthy basin.

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Lawmakers Want Answers on Stolen HHS Laptop That Potentially Contained Personal Info on Millions

The chairman and ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee want to know why it took HHS tow months to notify Congress.

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How Last Year's OPM Hack Could Affect the Census

A loss of public trust in the federal government could undermine Commerce's ability to collect data for the 2020 census.

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Social Security Wants to Know What its Customers Want -- Before They Do

To some, the thought of a government agency anticipating the needs of its customers is Orwellian at best.

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DHS: Cyberattack on the Ukraine Power Grid Could Happen Here

“This type of attack can happen in any critical infrastructure company across all sectors," a high-ranking cybersecurity official says.

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Federal Cybersecurity by the Numbers: The Biggest Spenders and the Biggest Threats

The annual scorecard tracking agencies’ compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act shows some agencies are backsliding.

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Can the Internet of Things Change Economic Inequality? Commerce Wants to Know

he Department of Commerce wants your input on the Internet of Things.

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FBI Cyber Official on Panama Papers: ‘Good, It Wasn't a Law Firm in the US’

The leak could be a lesson for people who trust outside organizations, such as law firms, to protect their data.

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NOAA is Hosting More Weather Data in the Cloud

By making a large data set available in the cloud, the agency was able to free up bandwidth and resources on constrained, legacy systems.

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Military Commands Tussle Over Cyber Power

The Pentagon said it plans to sort out the org chart.

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Defense Chief Pitches Pentagon Projects to Tech Workers

The defense secretary takes his outreach tour to robotics labs and startup centers in Austin and Boston

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With Job Website, Spy Agencies Try to Reach Younger Applicants

The intelligence community’s new website includes a “job exploration” function that tells high school students how to get involved in government work.

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How the West Wing Got New Wi-Fi

First, workers had to remove 13,000 lbs of unused cables left inside the White House walls from previous upgrade efforts over the years.

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Next-Generation Weather Satellites Going Up in October. But What’s Coming Down?

The GOES-R constellation will replace the existing GOES fleet, which consists of a backup satellite and two active satellites that monitor the U.S. 24/7.

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What the The Defense Department's Bug Bounty Program Won’t Fix

Ash Carter reveals a prize pool of $150,000, but will the program reveal the limits of Silicon Valley solutions to the Pentagon's problems?

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Are CIOs to Blame for the Legacy IT Crisis?

GAO research shows the average tenure for an agency CIO barely tops two years.

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IRS Crowdsources Future of the Taxpayer Experience

Designers, developers will reimagine future John Q. Public’s interaction with agency.

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Soldiers to Help Crowdsource Spy Maps

Because satellite connectivity can be too spotty to obtain high-fidelity images for spies in remote locations, some intelligence officials say they welcome the expansion of social mapping.

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Critics Say White House’s Open Source Software Policy Doesn't Go Far Enough

The Presidential Innovation Fellows Foundation and GSA’s 18F both think government software should be “open by default.”