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Inside the IBM/Amazon protest

GAO's ruling in the protest of the CIA cloud services contract sheds light on how the agency conducted the procurement.

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USPS goes all-in on agile development

Three years after the first pilot, the Postal Service has delivered more than 50 projects using agile methodologies.

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NSA shows how big 'big data' can be

Experts say the massive scale of metadata that the NSA is collecting represents a daunting challenge in finding useful information within it.

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IG: Coast Guard needs improved laptop security

A report reveals that some USCG laptops don't meet the service's own security standards.

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NIST reports progress on cyber framework

Halfway to the executive order's deadline, best practices and clear standards are taking shape.

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Past surveillance programs could predict Prism's path

Remember Clipper Chip? Carnivore? The current debate over domestic monitoring isn't the first such controversy.

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NIST seeks comment on draft cloud security guidelines

Document aims to 'demystify the process of selecting cloud-based services.'

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Senate questions NSA head

Gen. Keith Alexander answers questions about information gathering, security clearance process.

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What the NSA can't do with your data (probably)

Data mining experts explain what predictive analytics on a massive scale would entail.

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Nation split on NSA monitoring

A new poll reveals that a majority of Americans are ok with the NSA tracking telephone calls, but fewer approve of email monitoring.

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How the Post Office's 'eye in the sky' fights fraud

With heat maps, predictive modeling and data streams provided by private-sector firms, USPS' RADR system sounds like an intelligence project -- minus all the secrecy.

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Los Alamos Lab gets its own app

The once-secretive government lab that gave birth to the atomic bomb now offers history and news to anyone with an iPhone.