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How A Massive Nuclear Nonproliferation Effort Led To More Proliferation
More than a decade of negotiations with Russia produced a clear winner, and it was not the United States. Read More »
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ICT Strategy Promises To Save Millions
A new strategy, which the government says will save millions that are currently wasted on public sector ICT, was published by the Cabinet Office today. Read More »
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Ignore Those Rumors: The White House Doesn’t Oppose IT Reform, Lawmaker Says
The perception among federal technology watchers that U.S. Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel and other officials from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget oppose a plan to overhaul government IT spending is off the mark, a co-sponsor of that bill says. Read More »
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IT Reform Act Could Hitch A Ride On Major Defense Bill
The bipartisan team sponsoring a complete reboot of how the government buys information technology introduced a version of its bill as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act on Tuesday. Read More »
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Kickstarting Your Career: Crowdfunding For Scientific Research
Popularized by such sites as Kickstarter, crowdfunding has become a main source of financial support for entrepreneurs with ideas ranging from clothing lines to social media. Unfortunately, Kickstarter prohibits projects for health and medicine, making the site useless for academic researchers. To fill this gap, Petridish, iAMscientist and MedStartr have come online in the past 6 months...
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Lawmakers Grill Federal CIO On Data Center Figures
Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel, speaking before a House subcommittee Thursday, defended the Office of Management and Budget's sudden acknowledgement that the number of federal data centers now totaled more than 7,000, more than twice the number that had been reported as recently as May. Read More »
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More Work Is Needed On The Safety And Efficacy Of Healthcare Information Technology
If one were writing about the improvement of gastronomy in America, one would probably not celebrate “over 300 billion hamburgers served.” But that’s very much the type of success Dr. Ashish Jha is celebrating in last week’s piece on recent US healthcare IT sales. [...] Read More »
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Navy Medicine CIO: We Are Communicating With VA On EHR Efforts
The CIO for Navy Medicine insisted this week that the Department of Defense is maintaining open communication lines with the Department of Veterans Affairs on electronic health record efforts. Read More »
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NYC Opens The Books, And The Source Code, On Checkbook 2.0
Last week, New York City Comptroller John C. Liu unveiled the Checkbook NYC 2.0 website and announced that the source code for the financial transparency website would be available to developers on GitHub, which will allow other government organizations to use Checkbook to build similar sites. Read More »
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Obamacare's Slush Fund Fuels A Broader Lobbying Controversy
A little-noticed part of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act channels some $12.5 billion into a vaguely defined “Prevention and Public Health Fund” over the next decade–and some of that money is going for everything from massage therapists who offer “calming techniques,” to groups advocating higher state and local taxes on tobacco and soda, and stricter zoning restrictions on fast-food restaurants. Read More »
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Oversight Committee Passes IT Reform Act, Giving CIOs Budget Authority
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee unanimously passed legislation on Wednesday that would mark the most significant reform in more than a decade to the way the government purchases information technology. Read More »
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Oversight Holds Hearing Tuesday On Wasteful IT Spending
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has called a hearing next Tuesday at 1 p.m. focusing on the wasteful and dysfunctional fashion in which the federal government acquires information technology (IT) systems and services. Read More »
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Portability Challenges For Government Agencies Moving To Hybrid Clouds
The inaugural IDC Government Insights report, released earlier this year, paints a revealing picture of how the U.S. Federal Government is spending and planning to spend information technology (IT) dollars on cloud solutions. Read More »
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Shutdown Imperils Costly Lab Mice, Years Of Research
The government shutdown is likely to mean an early death for thousands of mice used in research on diseases such as diabetes, cancer and Alzheimer's. Read More »
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So Much For Exporting Democracy: Afghanistan Is As Corrupt As North Korea
After 12 years, nearly $700 billion, and more than 2,000 dead U.S. soldiers, here's what the United States has to show for its efforts in Afghanistan: a government that's perceived to be as corrupt as North Korea, according to a new report from the anti-corruption group Transparency International. Read More »
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