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House lawmakers want to update the Hatch Act. The last time Congress changed the 1939 law governing political activity of federal employees was in 1993, before the Internet, Facebook and Twitter. Federal News Radio’s Jason…
June 21, 2011 -
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Federal CIO Vivek Kundra\'s departure from government could mean a gray future for cloud computing in the federal government. Federal News Radio got the forecast from NextGov reporter Joseph Marks.
June 21, 2011 -
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The Government Accountability Office says the Defense Department needs to step up its cybersecurity training.
June 21, 2011 -
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Companies are considering insurance as a way to reduce risk and protect themselves from data breaches or hacks. Dr. Larry Ponemon tells us more about it.
June 21, 2011 -
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CACI says it will buy Pangia Technologies LLC, a software engineering company that works for U.S. intelligence agencies, the Department of Homeland Security, the Air Force and the Navy.
June 21, 2011 -
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The National Security Agency wants to be able to outfit military personnel with commercial smartphones and tablets -- but based on a NSA security design.
June 21, 2011 -
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The House Appropriations Committee wants DoD to electronically find and track pharmaceutical information for troops at war.
June 20, 2011 -
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is leading the charge on making a virtual Internet to better protect the real Internet.
June 20, 2011 -
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it will cut its IT costs for email and collaboration services in half, by moving all its employees to the cloud. The science agency has just issued a three year contract to handle email, calendar, collaboration and mobile device synchronization. NOAA says it\'s the largest federal agency to move to a cloud solution so far. They expect to migrate 25,000 mailboxes to the new service by the end of this year.
June 20, 2011 -
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One part of the Air Force overcame the challenges surrounding a relocation from Washington to Fort Meade, Maryland, by pursing an aggressive telework system. The Air Force central adjudication facility, which processes security clearances, equipped and trained all 155 of its employees to telework. The agency credits the remote collaboration tools it created for letting it hold on to 92 percent of its workforce, in spite of the move to Maryland. They say they also increased productivity by 55 percent in just one year.
June 20, 2011 -
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The Agriculture Department\'s Rural Utilities Service is issuing 250-million dollars in low-interest loans to help smaller, rural electric providers add technology to their local power grids. USDA says the loans to implement smart grid technology will help bring innovative features like customized, real time electric usage monitoring to homes and businesses throughout America through smart electric meters. And technological improvements to the grid itself will decrease the number of blackouts.
June 20, 2011 -
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June 20th and June 22nd, 2011 Tangherlini serves as the principal policy advisor on the development and execution of the budget and performance plans for Treasury
June 20, 2011 -
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Vivek Kundra, the federal government\'s first chief information officer, plans to step down. Who will follow and what will be most at risk? We ask Ed Meagher, former deputy CIO at VA and DOI.
June 20, 2011 -
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LulzSec announces \'Operation Anti-Security\'
June 20, 2011
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