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  <title><![CDATA[How the CIA grows tech]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[NSA director: Surveillance programs foiled 50 terror plots]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander told a House committee Tuesday that 50 terror threats in 20 countries have been disrupted with the assistance of two secret surveillance programs recently disclosed by former defense contractor Edward Snow]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Former GAO chief pitches commission to transform government]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[An independent commission could recommend cuts, consolidation or termination of individual government programs to Congress for an up-or-down vote, under a proposal by the former head of the Government Accountability Office.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Key senators back Tangherlini nomination to top GSA post]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Two key senators on Tuesday endorsed the nomination of Dan Tangherlini to be permanent head of the General Services Administration.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[3 NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower: We told you so]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[When a National Security Agency contractor revealed top-secret details this month on the government&apos;s collection of Americans&apos; phone and Internet records, one select group of intelligence veterans breathed a sigh of relief.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Debate starts over who should have access to classified material]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The revelation of a top secret US National Security Agency intelligence program by a low-level contractor with access to the sensitive data has sparked a spirited defense debate about the people who have access to classified material and whether existing]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[News Digest: June 17]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Drug Enforcement Administration must take immediate steps to stop discrimination against female special agents seeking assignments abroad, under a new decision in a long-running class-action lawsuit.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tea Party scandal could lead to IRS restructuring]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Tea Party targeting scandal shows the need for a major shake-up of the Internal Revenue Service, the chairmen of Congress&apos;s two tax-writing committees told reporters Friday morning.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lawmakers call for IT security reforms at VA]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[House lawmakers are calling for sweeping reforms at the Veterans Affairs Department &#45; including credit monitoring for all veterans and their dependents whose personal information resides in VA&apos;s database &#45; following recent revelations that multiple foreig]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[House passes bill to strengthen CIO authority, reform IT]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The House on Friday passed legislation that would overhaul how agencies manage their information technology dollars and require that each agency have only one chief information officer.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Online tool helps agencies buy green]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Contracting officers play key role in greening government]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Training contracting officers ranks as the Small Business Administration&apos;s top effort toward meeting federal sustainability goals, chief operating officer Paul Christy said.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Postal Service to boost spending on sustainable products]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Postal Service is planning to ramp up spending on environmentally friendly products and services by as much as 50 percent through fiscal 2020.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Contractors frustrated with cuts to bio-based purchasing program]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[An Agriculture Department program that helps agencies buy environmentally friendly products made from biological or agricultural materials suffered a setback in January when Congress failed to extend funding that would allow it to test new products.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[FBI director cites harm to national security from Snowden&apos;s leaks]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Former contractor Edward Snowden&apos;s highly publicized leaks on classified government surveillance programs have harmed national security by alerting terrorists to the ways the United States monitors their communications, FBI Director Robert Mueller said Th]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Postal Service agrees to class-action discrimination settlement]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Postal Service will pay almost $17.3 million to settle allegations of discrimination against employees with disabilities.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[SAIC to pay $11.75M settlement in inflated billings case]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Science Applications International Corp., one of the federal government&#39;s largest contractors, has agreed to pay $11.75 million to settle accusations that it inflated bills under federal grants to train anti-terrorism first responders, the Justice Department said Thursday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Long-dormant civil liberties board to meet on NSA&apos;s PRISM]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[A long dormant and little known presidentially appointed panel charged with overseeing how federal laws affect Americans&apos; civil liberties will meet behind closed doors next week to discuss the National Security Agency&apos;s so-called PRISM program.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[GAO questions $4 billion in IT savings]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget claims that a new approach to reviewing troubled government information technology projects has saved the government $4 billion in 2010 and 2011.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Nominee promises speedier regulation review]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[President Obama&apos;s choice to become the government&apos;s regulatory gatekeeper pledged Wednesday to tackle a backlog of pending rules if he wins Senate confirmation for the job.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[White House suspends Presidential Rank Awards]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The White House this year will not issue Presidential Rank Awards, which carry bonuses worth tens of thousands of dollars to selected executives and senior-level professionals,an administration official confirmed to Federal Times Wednesday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[House panel chair calls VA data loss &apos;troubling&apos;]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Another lawmaker is raising concerns about an incident at the Veterans Affairs Department involving the deletion of hundreds of thousands of electronic documents and images last month, including active loan files.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[DOJ planned &apos;state secrets&apos; privilege in Booz Allen case]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Last year, one day after the Justice Department signaled plans to invoke the rarely used &apos;state secrets privilege&apos; in a lawsuit accusing Booz Allen Hamilton of stealing information from a technology firm, the dispute quietly ended.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tech hiring binge may pose security risks for government]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Among the more curious revelations to emerge from the recent NSA leak saga is how a 29-year-old high school dropout landed a $122,000 job in a sensitive government program.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Federal consolidation effort uncovers additional 3,000 data centers]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Three years into a five-year program aimed at consolidating hundreds of federal data centers, the administration still does not know how many data centers it owns and operates.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Drug Enforcement Administration must take immediate steps to stop discrimination against female special agents seeking assignments abroad, under a new decision in a long-running class-action lawsuit.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Snowden case: How low-level insider could steal from NSA]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Edward Snowden&apos;s ability to extract sensitive data from the National Security Agency, working as a low-level contract consultant, comes as no surprise to the security community.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Providers exceed goal for electronic record adoption]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[More than half of the nation&apos;s eligible doctors and hospitals have received federal incentive payments for adopting and using electronic health record systems, the Health and Human Services Department announced last month.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[DoD, VA have spent $1B trying to build joint health records system]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments appear to be abandoning plans to build a joint system to seamlessly share electronic health records when military service members become veterans.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Indian Health Service sets ambitious plan to upgrade health record system]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The federal agency charged with providing health services to more than 2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives is undergoing a multimillion-dollar project to upgrade its electronic health record system by 2014.]]></description>
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