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Veterans Calling VA's Crisis Line Can Finally Get Through. Here’s Why.
A team of techies and customer-service professionals starting tackling the problem in 2015.
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VA's Patchwork System Eats Most of its $4B Tech Budget. Congress Wants That to Stop.
The agency’s CIO says there’s no clear plan for replacing custom-built systems, two of which are more than 50 years old.
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How the Navy’s Warship Shop Uses Data to Do More with Less
A Navy program office turned to an analytics and visualization tool to help optimize complex tasks.
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The CIA’s Classified Cloud Is Reducing Tasks from Months to Minutes
Launched in April, the intelligence community's 10-year, $600 million Amazon-built infrastructure project is already producing results.
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How to Get the Market to Make Secure IoT Devices
New rules for government purchases might be the fastest way to make sure new internet-connected devices don’t join botnets.
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The Pentagon's Mapmakers Want to Offer Customers an Amazon-Like Experience
A National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency directorate is seeking better ways to custom-tailor geospatial information products.
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The CIA Says It Can Predict Social Unrest as Early as 3 to 5 Days Out
The reason: a dramatic improvement in analytics, cloud computing and ‘deep learning.’
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The US Military Will ‘Be Left Behind’ If It Doesn’t Embrace Open-Source Software, Report Says
Amid a rising China and Russia, the Pentagon’s slow pace on the software front could cost it tactically for years to come.
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If There’s Malware In Your Toaster, the US Military Wants to Find It
The idea is to protect household appliances connected to the internet by remotely monitoring subtle changes in thermal signals transmitted under normal conditions.
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The Pentagon’s Massive IT Consolidation Plan Is In Trouble
Defense officials can’t project the program's cost because of its complexity, and because officials can’t even agree what is or isn’t included.
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US Navy Wants to Train Its Own 'Ethical' Hackers
The service wants to certify sailors to think more like a cyber adversary to better defend its networks across the globe.
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The Future of Intelligence Sharing Is Coming Together in the Syrian War
Fifteen years after 9/11, America's intelligence community finally has a rapid, modern sharing system.
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US Spies Want a Laser Gun That Can Detect Bombs from 100 Feet Away
If the device can be produced and later miniaturized, it may end up resembling a gun or grocery-store scanner.
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Old Laws Are Keeping the US Navy from New IT Gear
The service’s deputy chief information officer says outdated regulations 'make it a struggle' for the military to stay on the cutting edge.
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The Big Budget Crunch Awaiting America's Spies
The U.S. intelligence community overall budget may rise in the months ahead, but spending on information technology will not, a new report says.
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With Lockheed Deal, Leidos Is Now the Government's Largest IT Provider
The merger creates an IT business with a $10 billion portfolio and contract holdings across every facet of federal government.
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The Pentagon Wants Its Next Global Communication Systems to be Agile and Open
The Defense Information Systems Agency is looking to eventually turn off its old system currently maintained primarily by Northrop Grumman.
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US Intel Community Taps Encryption-Busting Tech Firm for Digital Spying
The venture capital arm of the CIA is buying in to a Canadian company that says it can access certain encrypted technologies.
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The Pentagon's Massive IT Overhaul Is 'Redefining' Intelligence Collection
It isn’t uncommon for U.S. intelligence analysts to ping several hundred or more databases separately to collect information. That may soon change.
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