Clay Johnson and Adam Becker joined the Presidential Innovation Fellows program to help the White House fix the way government does business.
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Fighting Fires With Data, New York City Launches New Safety Inspection System
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today that New York City has implemented city-wide a new risk based inspection system focused on fire safety that is driven by analytics from multiple city agenci
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IRS Announces Furlough Details
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VA announces overtime ‘surge’ to battle disability claims backlog
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Wednesday that it is mandating the use of overtime for claims processors at its 56 regional offices as part of a “surge” aimed at eliminating t
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Are Syria's Internet Outages Increasing in Frequency?
At 3:30am this morning, Jim Cowie got an automated text message: Syria's Internet was down, again.
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GovTek Awards Need Your Input: You can help recognize a tech champion
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House Intelligence Chairman a 'Respected' Contender for FBI
Longtime FBI Director Robert Mueller’s term ends later this year.
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Public Transit: Ride-sharing for Daily Commuting in Mumbai
Recently, the State Government of Maharashtra began looking into a proposal to run long-distance, point-to-point shared taxi services to improve the quality of daily commutes in Mumbai.
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Green Infrastructure and Technology for Alleviating Poverty [VIDEO]
Can solar power help eradicate extreme poverty in the developing world?
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Michal Migurski: Why I’m Coding For America
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Reinventing Innovation
What inspired me at the Excellence in Government Conference? I liked the emphasis on innovations underway in different places around the government.
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Is Civic Hacking Good for Cities?
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Next Year’s Defense Furlough Prospects Uncertain
Officials aim to avoid unpaid leave in 2014, but ‘can’t know the future fully.’
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A Fresh Look at Sequester Harms From House Democrats
Appropriators warn of long-term shortfalls in airport modernization, Coast Guard training, food inspection.
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Political Pressures Harden as IRS Management Issues Grow Clearer
With congressional hearings, agency may find opportunity to clarify practices.
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With the IRS Scandal Ablaze, How Does that Special-Prosecutor Thing Work?
An explainer of how Eric Holder could appoint someone to pursue the case.
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How the Zebrafish May Hold the Key to Human Disease
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Bill Would Allow Retirees to Keep TRICARE Prime Access
Defense plans to switch 171,000 enrollees to a different plan on Oct. 1 because of downsizing.
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4 Takeaways from the IRS Inspector General's Report
Report says there's a culture of incompetence within the tax-collecting agency.
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After LDTC, Come Raise a Glass to Open Government!
Everyone is invited to attend a Transparency Happy Hour on Wednesday, May 22, from 5:30-7:30 at Bullfeathers.
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SI Org makes deal for part of Telcordia
The SI Organization has acquired Applied Communication Sciences, a year-old company with roots that go back to the legendary Bell Labs.
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When Are Public Officials' Calls and Emails Public Records?
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Lessons from Lockheed's $4.6B DISA GIG contract
Winning the job to manage DISA's Global Information Grid was big for Lockheed Martin.
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Global health IT market to hit $57B by 2017
The global health IT market is expected to grow from $40.4 billion in 2012 to $56.7 billion in 2017.
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GD wins subcontract to service littoral combat ships
Austral USA has awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems a subcontract to assist the U.S. Navy's littoral combat ships 14 and 16.
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Treating first responders for heat stress
Dave Hostler
There are several elements that need to be in place when treating first responders for heat stress.
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#WaldoCanyonFire – 5 Lessons for Social Media in a Crisis Situation
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New law means clean slate for Indiana ex-offenders
A new Indiana law will erase the criminal records of some non-violent, non-sexual crimes, giving ex-offenders a fresh start.
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GSA to Release IT Contract Search Tool This Summer
The General Services Administration will introduce a navigation tool designed to help federal, state and local government users examine products and services under information technology contracts, F
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There Are 12.5 Unprotected Versions of the Average American’s Personal Information on the Web
Safe Shepherd is a company that searches the web for all the public records available on its clients.
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Roth-style investing in TSP continues to grow
Federal employees are increasingly taking to Roth-style investing in their retirement savings program, although Thrift Savings Plan accounts remain heavily weighted toward traditional investments, acc
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Protected: Welcome to the World of Portland
This post is password protected. You must visit the website and enter the password to continue reading.
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Portland Transit Users Buy Tickets on the Go
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GovTek Awards Need Your Input: You can help recognize a tech champion
By Bob Gourley
Friends at the Government Technology Research Alliance have an awards activity they call the GovTek Awards.
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OPM Advertises Vacant CIO Position
The salary for the Senior Executive Service job ranges from $120,000 to $180,000.
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Lawsuit Says IRS Illegally Seized 60 Million Health Records
Agents scooped up medical records in a tax case, violating health privacy laws, California suit alleges.
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William McRaven: Special Operations Command Seeks Global Teams
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Government Innovators- Learn How They Do It
In a time of sequestration and budget cuts innovation is the name of the game. All across government we are seeing "government innovators" pop up.
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Controversial anti-smoking aid: assault on an officer
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U.S. Energy Information Administration compares states' CO2 emissions
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House Spending Panel Backs Joint Defense-VA Electronic Health Record
Committee will withhold funds unless both departments sign on to project.
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How Drug Companies Keep Medicine Out of Reach
The promise of delinking research and development from the actual manufacture of drugs, and why the pharmaceutical industry rejects an idea that could turn neglected diseases into profit.
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PDF France 2013: “Au Code, Citoyens!”
This year PDF France will take place in Paris on June 13, with the theme "Au Code, Citoyens!" ("To Code, Citizens!") The speakers' lineup includes some of the continent's leaders in the digital rev
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2Day in #OpenGov 5/14/2013
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Elizabeth McGrath: Pentagon to Focus on Operation Costs
Elizabeth McGrath, Defense Department deputy chief management officer, told the Excellence in Government Forum Tuesday the Pentagon will increasingly focus on operations costs as the Pentagon seeks
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Belkin Releases Secure KM Switch for Seamless Switching between Multiple Monitors and Networks Using Single Keyboard and Mouse
Advanced Secure KM Switch and New Advanced Secure DVI-I KVM Switch Provide Superior Security and Data Protection for Government Agencies and Financial Markets
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GovDelivery Awarded G-Cloud III Framework Contract
By Kathy Kyle, Digital Communications Consultant at GovDelivery
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Harris receives $26M order for Falcon III radios
Harris has won a $26 million order from the U.S. Marine Corps for Falcon Tactical Radios.
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Addressing three must-haves for state procurement
Contributor Bobby Feigler suggests increasing government transparency, cutting costs by saving time and utilizing local and diverse suppliers as three ways government procurement officials can become
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Android Might Own 75% of The Smartphone Market But All the Action is Still on the iPhone
Phones running iOS use much more data than those with Android. How much exactly?
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