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Interesting Federal Social Media Accounts You May Not Know About

Federal agencies have come a long way from the bureaucratic rules that often hampered effective social media use.

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Non-traditional contractors grow up

The Digital Services Coalition, a trade association representing non-traditional IT contractors, is out with a new strategic plan.

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Vendor locking in the cloud

The "bring your own licenses" lift-and-shift cloud deployment model is giving way to more restrictions as software vendors look to steer existing user bases to their own cloud offerings.

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Scene Graph Technology: High-Impact Use Cases for Government

Scene graphs allow humans and machines to categorize and query images based on complex relationships among objects in a scene. 

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Your digital footprints are more than a privacy risk – they could help hackers infiltrate computer networks

Hackers with open source intelligence gathering tools can mine a target’s audio and video to extract personal information they then use in phishing messages that appear to come from a trusted source.

Emerging Tech

Artemis Will Soon Take Flight

The project’s launch marks the first step in what could be a new era of true space travel.

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Performance measurement is alive and well

Steve Kelman reviews the current slate of the Biden administration's priority performance goals and corrects the record about the use of performance management.

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Only a transformation of service delivery can rebuild trust in government. Here’s how.

The COVID-19 pandemic proved all federal agencies need to become great at service delivery, and an executive order provides the authority. It's time to get moving.

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It's time for another look at election security – through a technological lens

Using a mobile device to cast a ballot – secretly, securely and verifiably – and having the ability to validate the accuracy of the voting process is certainly possible, and it's time to start taking that possibility more seriously.

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What federal data platform owners need to know about the zero trust mandate

It is important for agencies to understand that a data-driven approach to zero trust implementation will drive the most secure and sustainable results.

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Why the White House is Focused on Community-Level Water Cybersecurity

A hack on municipal water and wastewater systems could have devastating consequences on an essential resource.

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New Data-Sharing Requirements from the National Institutes of Health are a Big Step Toward More Open Science – and Potentially Higher-Quality Research

In order to get funding from the National Institutes of Health, researchers now need a plan for sharing and managing their data.

Emerging Tech

Hidden Security Considerations When Moving to 5G

The newest generation of wireless technology comes with several transformative advantages, as well as some pitfalls.

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The President Proposes, but the Congress Disposes

With the conclusion of 2022 funding legislation efforts, the process for 2023 is around the corner.

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I Scoured Congress’ 2,741-Page Spending Bill: Here's All The IT & Cyber In It

A thorough overview of the IT funding provided in Congress’s 2,741-page spending bill.