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The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy has found that federal agencies used the authority under the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 to launch 47 prize competitions during fiscal...

The House Oversight Committee has asked the Government Accountability Office to evaluate the Census Bureau's readiness to conduct an end-to-end test in 2018 as part of the bureau's preparedness strategy for...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has collaborated with more than 70 industry partners to combine commercial technologies into a mobile wireless communications system for first responders. NIST said Wednesday the...

The White House has started to conduct discussions on community policing best practices with law enforcement agencies since June in collaboration with the Justice Department. Jerry Abramson, deputy assistant to the president...

The Small Business Administration has launched a new website designed to simplify the application process for small companies and entrepreneurs that aim to do business with the federal government. Maria Contreras-Sweet,...

The Government Accountability Office has called on the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration to specify the pit production-related parameter for NNSA's plutonium analysis project at Los Alamos. GAO said...

The General Services Administration's 18F unit has conducted an experiment on an auction that involved bidding via the micro-purchase team's application program interface on the cloud.gov platform. Michael Torres and...

David Nelson David Nelson, former chief information officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has been appointed to a similar role at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He has managed CMS' $2.6 billion information technology...

David DeVries David DeVries, principal deputy chief information officer of the Defense Department, is set to join the Office of Personnel Management in the coming weeks as CIO. The 35-year DoD veteran...

Beth Cobert The Office of Personnel Management has issued a data call with regard to OPM’s annual evaluation of special rates for General Schedule employees. Beth Cobert, acting OPM director, wrote in...