The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to use big data analytics to identify cause-and-effect relationships in complex economic, medical and environmental systems. DARPA’s Big Mechanism program will have three phases and
MoreCommerce Department Chief Information Officer Simon Szykman will leave his post after four years and plans to work in the private sector, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. Jason Miller writes an email
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President Barack Obama has asked federal agencies that handle export-import operations to centralize those process and work to remove redundant paperwork requests, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Jack Moore writes Obama signed an
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Annette Moore, acting chief information officer at NASA‘s Johnson Space Center, says the center has established a team that works directly with IT providers out of a vendor management office, Federal News
MoreThe Department of Homeland Security has adopted a new management system designed to help agency personnel monitor internal operations and use collected data in making business decisions, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday.
MoreThe White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy has issued a request for information on how federal agency incentives could help free up spectrum for commercial wireless broadband use. OSTP said Friday the
MoreThe General Services Administration has launched a crowdsourcing challenge via YouTube for a tool to track travel spending data, which will be used to identify cost-cutting opportunities across the government, FedScoop reported
MoreAn Office of Management and Budget report indicates there will be no further cuts to federal agenciesâ discretionary spending for fiscal year 2014 following the congressional budget agreement reached in December, Federal
MoreBeth Cobert of the Office of Management and Budget said Thursday that agencies have shown gains in streamlining their operations and expenses as they worked to meet performance goals for fiscal year
MoreA bipartisan bill signed into law this week will give the Office of Personnel Management inspector general a larger budget to oversee the agencyâs $2 billion revolving fund, Federal Times reported Thursday.
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