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Jory Heckman

Jory Heckman has been a reporter at Federal News Network since January 2018. Jory got his start as an intern in 2011 and was a digital news writer and editor for Federal News Network from 2014 to 2018. He also worked as a desk assistant with CBS News Radio in New York and was a reporter for the Citizens’ Voice newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

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DoD taking renewed interest in blockchain amid COVID-19 pandemic

Big Data

artificial intelligence, AI

GSA helping agencies overcome ‘mental barrier’ fielding unattended bots

Artificial Intelligence

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USPS ‘hopeful’ freedom to set higher mail rates will increase revenue

Management

Mike Pompeo

State Dept gives thanks to Foreign Service’s ‘exceptional’ volunteer workforce

Workforce

audit rate

Rettig says pandemic gave IRS ‘momentum’ to overhaul taxpayer services

Agency Oversight

IRS commissioner says IT modernization underfunded, will take longer than envisioned

Management

Researchers and crew aboard the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster watch footage of divers working at Gray's Reef, about 20 miles off the coast of Georgia on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

NOAA sets stage for 10-year network modernization with $300M AT&T task order

IT Modernization

State Department ‘reimagine taskforce’ collecting IT lessons learned during COVID-19

Technology