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White House Kicks Off Recruiting For New Class of Innovation Fellows
Recruiting for the innovation fellows coincides with a big hiring push at the U.S. Digital Service.
Management
Senator Demands IRS Explanation of Email Recovery
Inspector general reports 16,000 Lois Lerner documents that may be new.
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Senators Consider Congressional Role in Internet of Things
How can lawmakers regulate the Internet of Things without stifling innovation?
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For the Federal IT Budget, Things May Finally Be Looking Up
Overall, the total federal IT budget proposed by the president would tick up to $86 billion, a 2.7 percent increase above the current year’s levels.
Tech
The Feds Want Your Grandma to Teach You How to Be Safe on the Internet
Instead of treating older adults as helpless victims of online fraud, the government is trying to tap into their social networks to spread the word about Internet security.
Defense
Lawmakers Not Briefed About Creation of Obama's $35 Million Cyber Agency
"I believe [the news] is how everyone else found it . … We know about as much as you do," says congressional Republican close to the intelligence community.
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High-Risk List: Government IT Projects Fail ‘Too Frequently’
The government has wasted billions on botched IT projects that fail to deliver promised -- or any -- functionality and have been mothballed. Even more programs are still on the books, but remain at risk of falling behind
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Obama’s New Cyber Agency Puts Spies in Charge of Sharing Threat Tips with Agencies
The new Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center will be patterned after the intelligence fusion center stood up in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Tech
Uncle Sam Agrees to Publish 'Largest Index of Government Data in the World'
Transparency advocates win FOIA case.
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19 Dot-Gov Domains to Use HTTPS Encryption By Default -- But Not WhiteHouse.gov
HTTPS ensure sensitive data aren’t encoded in plain text format and makes it more difficult for interlopers to redirect visitors to a different site.
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CIA is Bringing Amazon’s Marketplace to the Intelligence Community
In the coming months, Amazon Web Services will launch an IC-only cloud marketplace that aims to shake up the way spy agencies purchase software.
Management
Obama To Germany: Stop 'Assuming the Worst' About NSA Spying
The president admitted Snowden revelations have damaged U.S.-German relations but asked for the benefit of the doubt about the NSA’s surveillance programs.
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DHS Wants to Plug Holes in Cyber Defenses with Big Data
Parsing data gleaned from its network-monitoring activities could provide a full-scale, real-time model of the potential cyberthreat agencies face, DHS officials say.
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GAO's High-Risk List Adds IT Acquisition and Veteran Health Care
Multiple Capitol Hill sources confirmed to Nextgov that IT acquisition and operations and veteran health care are now included.
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Need a Job? Cyber Command Is Halfway Full
The Pentagon is at the midway point of staffing a projected 6,000-person Cyber Command.
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What Kind of Federal CIO Will Tony Scott Be?
Tony Scott officially takes the reins of the Obama administration’s $84 billion IT budget next week.
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White House Picks VMware’s Tony Scott to be the Next Federal CIO
The White House is naming Tony Scott, the chief information officer at technology firm VMware, the new U.S. CIO.
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Exclusive: OPM Monitoring Anthem Hack; Feds Might Be Affected
The Office of Personnel Management is keeping a close eye on details emerging about a hack at the second biggest U.S. health insurer, Anthem Inc.
Defense
The Navy Has Built a Fire Extinguisher That Walks
A new robot firefighter can see through smoke and carry a hose on its own.
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