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GSA Plans to Democratize Its Data
The agency's central platform will let employees dabble in data sets and analytics tools.
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Senate Confirms GSA Leader
New Administrator Emily Webster Murphy has extensive experience in acquisition.
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Northrop Tests Spy Drones That Deploy in a Fake Bomb
The disposable Remedy is intended to drop from a fighter jet and fly slow enough to avoid radar.
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Poll: More than 60% of Voters Want to Avoid a Government Shutdown
Less than one in five think lawmakers should use a shutdown as political leverage.
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DHS Needs to Better Protect Employees’ Sensitive Info, IG Says
An audit found the agency falls short of federal privacy requirements
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How Federal CISOs Can Make the Most of Security Resources They Have
Chief information security officers need to efficiently use the resources at hand while planning for the future.
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Cyber Pro Confirmed as Homeland Security Secretary
Kirstjen Nielsen has a more extensive cybersecurity background than any previous Homeland Security leader.
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Census Can Move Forward After $283 Million Contract Dispute
AT&T, the company that filed the protest, reached a deal to work as a subcontractor on Census operations.
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GSA, NASA, Other Agencies Update Shutdown Guidance
Agencies have to prep their staff and their systems as the funding deadline approaches.
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With New Testing Rules, Will 2018 Finally Be the Year of the Drone?
The visual line-of-sight rule is perhaps the most important limitation to widespread commercial use of drones.
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Bots or Not, FCC Refuses to Delay Net Neutrality Vote
Despite increasing concerns over the integrity of the public comment process, the agency will vote as scheduled.
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GAO: Feds Aren’t Doing Enough for Minority Tech Workers
Equal employment agencies could be doing more, such as looking at which universities they recruit from.
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Policy Opens the Door for Smartphone Use in Classified Settings
Mobile devices will still be banned from facilities where highly classified information is shared.
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The Government’s Struggle to Hire Young Tech Talent is Worse Than You Thought
There’s only one under-30 IT specialist working in agencies for every four who are over 60 years old.
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GAO Asks: Exactly How Does CYBERCOM Help After Cyberattacks?
The Pentagon failed to describe how it’s training to support civil authorities when a major cyber strike comes, the watchdog agency said.
Tech
Budget-Managing Tips, but for Space Telescopes
NASA is scrambling to cut the growing cost of its latest big astronomy mission.
Oversight
The German Contractor Who Shut Down Trump’s Twitter Account Insists It Was A Mistake
“I didn’t hack anyone. I didn’t do anything that I was not authorized to do."
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FBI, DHS Warn of Hacker Mercenaries Funded by Nation-States
Lawmakers also are considering giving Homeland Security more authority to test anti-drone tech.
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