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Video: The Team Simulating a Mission to Mars in Hawaii
They're holed up in an abandoned volcano to understand the emotional cost of living on Mars and have very few resources.
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White House Would Curb Contracting Waste with Innovation Labs
Agencies will appoint acquisition innovation advocates to improve IT investments.
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Why CDC Wants to Tap Into Wearables
The agency is investigating wearable sensors that can alert first responders about radiation and chemical release.
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Could a Name Change Clarify What DHS' Cyber Team Actually Protects?
A rebranding could help telegraph that our digital lives and physical safety now are intertwined, says the directorate head.
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New White House Open Source Policy Makes it Easier for Agencies to Reuse Custom Software
The new Federal Source Code Policy will also include a pilot program to release some federally funded custom code to the public.
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IT Fund Gets a Thumbs Up from CIOs. But is $3 Billion Enough?
The federal government is planning to spend nearly $90 billion a year on IT next year.
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Obama is Skipping Nancy Reagan’s Funeral to Attend SXSW
Obama is the keynote speaker at the conference and will be interviewed on stage by the Texas Tribune's editor-in-chief.
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Federal Agencies are Using Last Summer’s ‘Cyber Sprint’ to Justify Sole-Source IT Contracts
Some of these so-called sole-source contracts appear to violate federal contracting rules, according to procurement experts.
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The Justice Department Is Secretly Meeting With Companies to Fight Extremism Online
A coalition of civil rights groups wants to be included in the meetings to keep the feds in check.
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Why Commerce Wants Robots to Fix Themselves
NIST wants to create a standard test by which manufacturers can evaluate robots’ agility before deploying them in the factory.
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5 Charts that Show Where the Federal IT Budget is Headed Next Year
Of the 25 largest civilian agencies, 19 are due for an increase when it comes to IT spending.
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Smileys and Flags: The Most Popular Emoji Descriptions of Presidential Candidates
Blend, a group-chat app for millennials, analyzed how 250,000 of its users referenced the candidates.
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The Most Anticipated IT Contracts in 2016
"This is the biggest year for federal IT contract vehicles in a decade," according to one analyst.
Tech
The IRS Has Taken its Failed ID Protection Service Offline, After a Hack
Identity thieves have stolen at least 800 "Identity Protection PINs" through the IRS system.
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White House Taps Techies to Apply Federal Data to Beating Poverty
Private software developers attend first demo of Opportunity Project.
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Postal Service Looking for New Predictive Analytics Platform
The agency wants to become a “data-driven” organization.
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CORRECTED: The Ransomware Threat to Agencies
Ransomware is running rampant across systems in state and local government, businesses and homes across the country.
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Is ‘Technically Acceptable’ Good Enough for Pentagon’s New $17.5B IT Contract?
DISA’s decision to evaluate proposed services using LPTA definitely has raised some eyebrows.
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These NASA Researchers Saw the OPM Hack Coming a Decade Ago. But Nobody Listened.
A group of NASA researchers, upset at the intrusiveness of federal background investigations, sued the government nearly 10 years ago, warning the feds couldn’t keep the data safe.
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