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NIH-Run IT Contracting Vehicle Slashes Fees

The National Institute of Health’s Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center is paring back the prices by as much as 35 percent.

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Is Cloud Computing Saving the Pentagon Money? Watchdog Still Doesn’t Know

DOD lacks a standardized definition for cloud computing and an inventory to track cloud-based contracts.

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Pentagon Grants Contractors an Extension on Hack Detection Rules

Companies get an extra year-and-a-half to comply with stronger security standards.

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Egypt’s Shutdown of Facebook’s 'Free Internet' May Have Nothing to do With Net Neutrality

Facebook’s attempt to provide free, albeit limited, internet access to the world’s unconnected, has proven popular.

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Massive Voter Database Left Unsecured

Information from over 190 million registered voters was found in loose online database.

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Nextgov Goes In Depth: The 10 Best ‘Longreads’ of 2015

To wrap up the year, we thought we’d showcase a different side to our coverage: the thoughtful, in-depth and, yes, long articles that tackle issues ranging from IT recruiting to improving government customer service.

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The Path for Federal R&D Is Changing

How agencies can tap industry research budgets.

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Lawmakers Take on Federal IT Fossils

A Dec. 22 letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden seeks answers about the age -- and overall health -- of the agency’s mission-critical computer systems.

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18F's Agile BPA Halted Once More By New Protest

Days after GSA announced it had resolved protests and that activity on the BPA could resume, another protest was filed with GAO.

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The Year in Federal IT: Top 10 Most-Read Nextgov Stories of 2015

Coverage of the Office of Personnel Management hack topped the list of most-read Nextgov stories this year.

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Driverless Cars: Here’s What the Obama Administration Should Do Next

On Dec. 4, President Barack Obama signed the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, which plans for a future of driverless cars

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NASA Tested a 3D-Printed Rocket Engine, and it Worked

3D printing is being pursued by serious manufacturers of all sorts of products, because this sort of “additive manufacturing” can deliver significant benefits.

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Relax, Your Driver’s License Will Still Be Accepted at Airport Security

DHS says it "will ensure the public has ample advanced notice" before changing the requirements for airport security identification requirements.

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Has the Obama Administration’s Push on Transparency Run Out of Steam?

At a time when the government is doling out $3.8 trillion annually, taxpayers are still questioning where all that cash is going.

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After Transcript Hack, IRS Still Evaluates Stronger Sign-On Measures

Authentication measures are not consistent across the agency, an internal watchdog says.

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The 10 Best Government Instagram Accounts of 2015

Agencies are using the social media platform to advance their missions.

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Federal Tech Predictions for 2016

SolarWinds CTO, Joel Dolisy, told Nextgov about his predictions for what the federal IT space will look like in the coming year.

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Juniper Hack: DHS Tells Agencies to Close Encryption Backdoors

The government is scouring its IT inventory to identify affected Juniper systems.