| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.08.2026 | Trump administration starts building border wall project in Arizona over tribe’s objections | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MIKELLA SCHUETTLER
PHOENIX (AP) — The Trump administration has begun work on a project to build a stretch of border wall in southern Arizona along part of a Native American tribe’s reservation, ... |
| 17.08.2026 | Screwworm Infections Get Worse, Government Unleashing Drone Army For Surveillance | A couple of months back, we discussed how screwworm infections had reappeared in Texas for the first time in decades. The foreign surveillance program designed to keep this from occurring in partnership with countries south of the border di... |
| 28.07.2026 | Trump administration demands hospitals share emergency room records | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Amanda Seitz, Maia Rosenfeld, and Darius Tahir, KFF Health News
A tiny federal agency tasked with protecting the public from injuries caused by lawn mowers and coffeemakers is demanding that som... |
| 02.07.2026 | Former Olympian indicted on felony charge over alleged Reflecting Pool vandalism | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MEG KINNARD
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Olympian was indicted Thursday on a felony charge in what President Donald Trump has called vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflec... |
| 16.06.2026 | Trump administration uses hydrogen peroxide and tiny bubbles against algae in Reflecting Pool | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By KATIE VOGEL and JACQUELYN MARTIN
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s remodeled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with its “American flag blue” bottom has turned chartreuse from an algal bl... |
| 04.06.2026 | FGR accelerates USA expansion & defence sector exposure with strategic acquisition of MITO® Material Solutions | Highlights
FGR enters binding agreement to acquire all assets, intellectual property, product lines and manufacturing capabilities of USA-based MITO® Material Solutions, Inc.
Strategic acquisition expands FGR's product portfolio into high-v... |
| 04.06.2026 | Water begins refilling Reflecting Pool after Trump’s renovation to repaint it ‘American flag blue’ | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Water began refilling the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Thursday, President Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office.
Trump showed a video during an un... |
| 28.05.2026 | FACT FOCUS: Trump says Obama and Biden spent ‘hundreds of millions’ on reflecting pool. They did not | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MELISSA GOLDIN
In April, President Donald Trump announced a project to revamp the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, hiring a contractor to coat its massive granite basin at a cost of what he sai... |
| 15.04.2026 | Judge extends pause on work to turn Maryland warehouse into immigrant detention | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH
A federal judge extended a pause Wednesday on transforming a massive Maryland warehouse into a processing facility for immigrants in a development that comes as federal imm... |
| 09.04.2026 | Protesters rally against planned Maryland immigration detention facility that’s now paused | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By REBECCA SANTANA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Horns blared and protesters screamed “Stop ICE!” outside a meeting on the western edge of Maryland where county officials were di... |
| 09.04.2026 | How communities have responded to plans to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is reviewing a plan to transform warehouses across the U.S. into detention facilities for tens of thousands of immigrants.
So f... |
| 03.04.2026 | Elon Musk's SpaceX files initial paperwork to sell shares to the public | Elon Musk's space exploration company has filed preliminary paperwork to sell shares to the public, according to two sources familiar with the filing, a blockbuster offering that would likely rank as the biggest ever and could make its foun... |
| 03.04.2026 | Rice Alliance names Houston healthtech exec as first head of platform | The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship has named its first head of platform.
Houston entrepreneur Laura Neder stepped into the newly created role last month, according to an email from Rice Alliance. Neder will focus on build... |
| 01.04.2026 | SpaceX files initial paperwork to sell shares to the public and likely make Musk a trillionaire | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By BERNARD CONDON and KEN SWEET, AP Business Writers
NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk’s space exploration company has filed preliminary paperwork to sell shares to the public, according to two sources fam... |
| 24.03.2026 | Millions of Anonymous Student and Crime Tips Exposed in Major Data Breach | Image: Daria Glakteeva/Unsplash
What was meant to stay hidden may no longer be.
A massive trove of sensitive data tied to anonymous crime and student safety tips was reportedly exposed, raising new concerns about whether such systems can tr... |
| 13.02.2026 | Public health workers are quitting over assignments to Guantánamo | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News
Rebekah Stewart, a nurse at the U.S. Public Health Service, got a call last April that brought her to tears. She had been selected for deployment to the Trump adminis... |
| 07.02.2026 | Her son’s injury never got its day in vaccine court. Their lawyer is now advising RFK Jr. on its overhaul | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Maia Rosenfeld, KFF Health News
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In 2019, after a routine vaccination, 11-year-old Keithron Thomas felt a sharp pain in his shoulder and down his arm. His mother, Melanie Bos... |
| 10.12.2025 | ManTech acquires data science, predictive analytics specialist | ManTech has acquired a provider of artificial intelligence and data science solutions in a move to further build out the portfolio of automation offerings and add more integration expertise.
Dr. John Elder founded Elder Research in 1995 to ... |
| 09.12.2025 | How ICE’s Plan To Monitor Social Media Threatens Not Just Privacy, But Civic Participation | When most people think about immigration enforcement, they picture border crossings and airport checkpoints. But the new front line may be your social media feed.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has published a request for informat... |
| 16.11.2025 | How ICE’s plan to monitor social media 24/7 threatens privacy and civic participation (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Nicole M. Bennett
When most people think about immigration enforcement, they picture border crossings and airport checkpoints. But the new front line may be your social media feed.
U.S. Immigrat... |
| 31.10.2025 | SpaceX and Blue Origin both submitted plans to get astronauts back to the moon faster, NASA says | SpaceX said it pitched NASA a “simplified” plan to return U.S. astronauts to the moon before China can complete its manned lunar mission by 2030.
NASA acting administrator previously criticized SpaceX for delays around this Artemis III miss... |
| 17.10.2025 | Trump called Digital Equity Act ‘racist.’ Now internet money for rural Americans is gone | By Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News
Megan Waiters can recite the stories of dozens of people she has helped connect to the internet in western Alabama. A 7-year-old who couldn’t do classwork online without a tablet, and the 91-year-old s... |
| 22.04.2025 | A call for comfort brought the police instead. Now the solution is in danger | “The whole thing was an absolute, utter, traumatic nightmare,” she said.
Isbell’s call for help represented the need for a new approach to crisis calls just as the nation was readying to flip the switch to a revamped response system for men... |
| 26.03.2025 | Will trimming the federal workforce make a dent in government bloat? | President Trump and Elon Musk’s Office of Government Efficiency have targeted the federal workforce laying off thousands of federal employees.
The president has justified those cuts as a cost savings measure and many of those fired workers ... |
| 13.02.2025 | Food industry pledges to work with RFK Jr following confirmation as health secretary | Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent vaccine critic who President Donald Trump directed to “go wild” on healthcare, was confirmed Thursday by the U.S. Senate as the country’s top health official.
The 52-48 vote to confirm Kennedy was nearly a... |
| 07.02.2025 | National Politics | Claims about USAID funding are spreading online. Many are not based on facts | “The information environment about what USAID does and does not do has gotten to a very difficult place, where there’s a lot of false and misleading information being circulated,” said Rachel Bonnifield, a senior fellow at the Center for Gl... |
| 03.02.2025 | The Twitter Files Playbook Comes For The US Government | Remember the Twitter Files? That carefully orchestrated “exposé” where incredibly gullible hand-picked journalists were given selective access to internal documents to manufacture misleading outrage about Twitter’s content moderation?
Get r... |
| 16.01.2025 | 2025 U.S. deficit to hit $2.8 trillion at current rate | The skyrocketing U.S. government deficit has been a point of contention for years and grew back into electoral significance as President-Elect Donald Trump made a political alliance with Elon Musk to, in part, reduce inefficient spending.
L... |
| 07.08.2024 | V2X now leans on optimization to carry out its strategy | The merger that created V2X in the summer of 2022 and subsequent work to put both of the big pieces together will always be how and where this government services company's origin story begins.
But all integration processes have to end at s... |
| 10.05.2024 | Maximus previews a pair of big recompete tests | Maximus is gearing up for two significant tests on the recompete front that, one way or another, will help shape its outlook and future given how both contracts at hand are at least one-fourth of the sales mix.
Rebid number one is just arou... |
| 30.04.2024 | Deloitte acquires public health research firm | Deloitte's government and public services practice has acquired a public health research and consulting company that also touts artificial intelligence as a core competency.
By purchasing Gryphon Scientific, Deloitte is looking to bolster i... |
| 16.01.2024 | Year In Review: Manchin Announces West Virginia Received $20.7 Billion In FY 2023 | January 16, 2024
Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced West Virginia received $20,731,406,457 in fiscal year 2023 to support the state’s priorities, communities, and famil... |
| 04.08.2023 | Dan Gwak of Point72 Ventures on why defense tech is becoming the next big thing for investors | Dan Gwak has had a more varied life than many investors. He grew up in Jakarta, the son of Korean parents who ran a shipping business. After high school, he headed to Cornell in the U.S., and became an associate at The Carlyle Group.
Everyt... |
| 06.06.2023 | 'Night Fury': Documents Detail DHS Project to Give 'Risk Scores' to Social Media Users | Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.
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The Department of Homeland Security contracted the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2018 to d... |
| 29.04.2023 | Moderna's billionaire CEO draws criticism for earning nearly $400 million in stock options last year, and then getting a raise on top of it | Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel joined the firm in 2011 before its rise to the top of the pharmaceutical industry. Chip Somodevilla/Getty
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| 10.03.2023 | The US military has been testing pulsed energy on animals trying to recreate the mysterious 'Havana Syndrome' symptoms: report | In this Oct. 3, 2017, file photo, tourists ride classic convertible cars on the Malecon beside the United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba. AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File
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| 27.10.2022 | How Do Drag Shows Advance U.S. National Security? | The exportation of American culture has long been one of our nation’s greatest soft-power assets. But instead of using it to affirm Western values and U.S. interests, the Biden administration is proselytizing for woke ideology. The foreign-... |
| 12.10.2022 | Twitter 'official partner' Dataminr, which police used to monitor Black Lives Matter protests, will soon get a surveillance contract for the White House | US President Joe Biden delivers virtual remarks at the Summit on Fire Prevention and Control from the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 11, 2022. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images This story is av... |
| 29.07.2022 | Tonix will test its monkeypox vaccine in Kenya next year, and no eyes on accelerated path at FDA | Don’t call it Operation Warp Speed 2.0, but Senate Democrats on Thursday proposed $22 billion in 2023 emergency supplemental funding for the next phase of the pandemic, including $16 billion to support the R&D, manufacturing, purchase, ... |
| 14.04.2022 | Business
Business | The Big Payout: Colorado received close to $66 billion in pandemic aid. We tracked where that money went. | Colorado received nearly $66 billion in federal pandemic assistance over the past two years, a river of money that made its way to every corner of the state — from tourist attractions high in the mountains to large universities and hospital... |
| 08.02.2022 | The IRS will move away using ID.me's facial recognition verification for IRS.gov | The IRS will eventually stop using ID.me identity verification on IRS.gov accounts, the agency said on Monday.
The IRS signed an $86 million contract with ID.me last year.
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| 01.02.2022 | Anchorage Closes In on FDIC Crypto Custodian Deal, Documents Show | Digital assets are growing more commonplace on the balance sheet of banks in the U.S. Eventually, one of these institutions may fail, and the Federal Insurance Deposit Corp. (FDIC) will need to step in to clean things up.
Cue Anchorage, a d... |
| 29.01.2022 | The IRS wants your selfie. ID.me CEO says don't worry about it. | ID.me, the verification service that most U.S. states turned to during the pandemic to confirm the identity of people applying for unemployment aid, attracted public scrutiny this month when it was revealed that the Internal Revenue Service... |
| 20.01.2022 | Adobe : is helping government agencies modernize grants management | Adobe is helping government agencies modernize grants management
Grants funding is critical to helping citizens and communities meet local needs with greater efficiency and effectiveness - up to 75 percent of federal dollars are allocated t... |
| 18.01.2022 | What’s next in the govtech space? Look to data security, this Maryland exec says | When it comes to data collection from the federal government, integration and testing firm Vidoori knows a thing or two.
The 150-person company based in Silver Spring, Maryland was founded in 2015 and got its big start working with none oth... |
| 25.12.2021 | The space station race | The International Space Station brings together astronauts from around the world to collaborate on cutting-edge research, and some have called it humanity’s greatest achievement. But after two decades in orbit, the ISS will shut down, and a... |
| 01.12.2021 | Climate tech funding news: BattGenie works its magic; lithium refining startup gets Gates’ support | BattGenie team, from left to right: Manan Pathak, Chintan Pathak and Venkat Subramanian. (BattGenie Photos)
Here’s the latest funding news for climate tech startups across the Pacific Northwest. BattGenie
The news: BattGenie — a startup on ... |
| 30.09.2021 | U.S. Senator Joni Ernst’s Trillion Dollar Savings Proposal – Stop The Federal Use-It-Or Lose-It Year-End Spending Spree | (Photo by Steve Pope/Getty Images) Getty Images |
| 22.09.2021 | 10% of early-stage startups working on blockchain: GSER 2021
Bitcoin miner Genesis Digital Assets raises $431M
Championing Web3 features in role-playing games — Here's why it matters
Nifty News: Sn... | With venture capital funding seemingly prioritizing emerging technology, the blockchain industry experiences a significant influx of capital from corporate backers.
According to the Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2021 published on Wednesda... |
| 15.08.2021 | Илон Маск собрался отправить человека на Луну раньше 2024 года | Один из пользователей твиттера спросил Илона Маска, одного из богатейших людей на планете и серьезного игрока в космической гонке, доставит ли корабль Starship его компании SpaceX человека на Луну в 2024 году.
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| 12.07.2021 | The Emerging Taxpayer Data Protection Problem | Silhouette of male hand typing on laptop keyboard at nightgetty |
| 02.04.2021 | Your Slack DMs aren’t as private as you think | Is Slack good for actually getting your work done? That’s debatable. But the popular messaging platform — which boasted more than 12 million daily active users as of last year — is definitely a promising medium for employers, regulatory age... |
| 12.02.2021 | Astellas, Seagen pave the way for Padcev's global rollout with full confirmatory data for urothelial cancer in hand | The Department of Health and Human Services is pushing forward with a pricey $300 million advertising campaign that Trump officials describe as a hopeful and uplifting message that would counter the drum beat of bad news they’re hearing in ... |
| 04.02.2021 | The US gov’s $44M vaccine rollout website was a predictable mess. Here’s how to fix the broken process behind it | The COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been a nightmare for many Americans as they struggle through multi-step registration and appointment systems.
The federal government had envisioned states using one national vaccine scheduling system, and it... |
| 08.12.2020 | Palantir will soon help the FDA evaluate drugs, including COVID-19 treatments | Palantir’s push into federal health work continues. The data analytics company just picked up a new U.S. Food and Drug Administration contract which will span three years for a total of $44.4 million. The company’s shares, which have double... |
| 01.12.2020 | Agency Financial Report for FY2020 | FISCAL YEAR
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| 30.09.2020 | Palantir shares jump 30% in stock market debut | Shares of data-mining company Palantir rose 30% as the data mining company made its public market debut on Wednesday in a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
Dubbed the "most secretive" Silicon Valley startup, it has fa... |
| 29.09.2020 | Amnesty International slams Palantir's human rights record | Amnesty International is criticizing Palantir's human rights record a day before the secretive Silicon Valley technology startup is set to go public.
In a report on Monday, Amnesty singled out Palantir's contracts with the U.S. Department o... |
| 24.09.2020 | Hootsuite says it will terminate its ICE contract ‘without delay’ | After disagreements within the company spilled over into public controversy, Hootsuite says it won’t go forward with a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Through an external spokesperson, the company told TechCrunch it ... |
| 17.09.2020 | As Palantir gears up to go public, activist groups are rallying BlackRock — a major investor — to ask the big data company to cut its ties with ICE | Activists protest outside the Palantir Technologies software company for allegedly helping ICE and the Trump administration in New York City, U.S., September 13, 2019 Reuters/Shannon Stapleton
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| 10.09.2020 | Anduril launches a smarter drone and picks up more money to build a virtual border wall | The company building the virtual border wall has a new version of its stealthy fast-flying drones — and a fresh contract with Customs and Border Protection to match. Anduril, a young defense-friendly tech company from the founder of Oculus,... |
| 07.09.2020 | Whistleblowers charge CEO of NJ firm with inflating AI capability, calling employees “dirty Indians” | Edward Scott took over as CEO of ElectrifAi in late 2018.
For years, Opera Solutions did business as a data analytics consulting company helping clients both in and out of healthcare. They include the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Servic... |
| 24.08.2020 | Palantir’s S-1 alludes to controversial work with ICE as a risk factor for its business | Palantir’s mysterious work and its founding origins with Trump ally and anti-press crusader Peter Thiel have inspired a number of controversies in recent years, none as divisive as its ongoing business with ICE. But with a direct listing ar... |
| 16.07.2020 | Focus falls on bitcoin trail in race to identify Twitter hackers | By Tom Wilson, Anna Irrera
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LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hackers who targeted some of Twitter’s top users to reap bitcoin worth $120,000 have likely left digital footprints that could offer clues for law enforcement agencies invest... |
| 16.07.2020 | The Trump administration just pulled coronavirus data out of the CDC's hands, and it means Americans can't see where hospital beds are filled | L to R: Nurse Kim Harrington in Houston, Texas, July 1, 2020, nurse Quinnece Washington in Los Angeles, CA, June 3, 2020, nurse Amanda Hamilton, Los Angeles, CA, June 3, 2020. Carolyn Cole, Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
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| 16.07.2020 | This Company is Selling Bizarre and Expensive Spy Equipment to Police | Last month, a small Georgia company that sells equipment to law enforcement sent out a jovial email to its private mailing list, with special summer offers and a copy of its 2020 catalogue of covert surveillance tools.
June had seen what wa... |
| 12.07.2020 | US Secret Service has Awarded Four-Year Contract to Coinbase to Use its Blockchain Analytics Software | San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase is offering its blockchain analytics software to the US Secret Service, a federal law enforcement agency that operates under the Department of Homeland Security. The agency performs criminal inve... |
| 22.06.2020 | As problems grow with Abbott’s fast Covid test, FDA standards are under fire | The agency at that point had received 15 “adverse event reports” about Abbott’s ID NOW rapid Covid test suggesting that infected patients were wrongly told they did not have the coronavirus, which had led to the deaths of tens of thousands ... |
| 20.05.2020 | Palantir picks up more COVID-19 contracts, this time with the VA | Palantir, the data analytics company co-founded by Peter Thiel, is already an active tech player in the scrum for federal contracts, but it’s playing a new and increasingly prominent role in providing the government with software tools to a... |
| 12.05.2020 | $2,000 Stimulus Checks - And What Happens To Social Security And Retirement When The Money Printer Goes Brrr? | Getty |
| 01.05.2020 | Trump Administration Ordered 100,000 Coronavirus Body Bags Even Though the President Wants to Reopen the Country | Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here.
The Trump administration ordered more than 100,000 more body bags last month, according to NBC News, despite repeated insistence from the White House that the corner has been ... |
| 01.04.2020 | Palantir provides COVID-19 tracking software to CDC and NHS, pitches European health agencies | As the floor drops out from under many startups, some tech companies are finding a path forward by meeting new government needs.
Among them is Palantir, a secretive government-friendly big data operation that’s able to ingest vast amounts o... |
| 28.01.2020 | Insiders say a Palantir exec claimed profitability and compared Project Maven to the nuclear bomb in January all-hands | Palantir CEO Alex Karp. Chesnot/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 23.09.2019 | Coder deletes open source add-on for Chef in protest over ICE contract | Enlarge / Open source ingredients borked some Chef users' systems because of an ICE protest by one developer.
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| 15.08.2019 | The NSA Uses Slack. Why? | Does the National Security Agency, one of the most secretive agencies of the U.S. government, use Slack, the all-consuming chat app that for many of us has become our primary form of human contact? Yes, absolutely—and not only that, they us... |
| 26.04.2019 | Hamas shifts tactics in bitcoin fundraising, highlighting crypto risks: research | By Tom Wilson, Dan Williams
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LONDON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The armed wing of Hamas is using increasingly complex methods of raising funds via bitcoin, researchers say, highlighting the difficulties regulators face in tracking crypt... |
| 10.04.2019 | One In Six Migrant Children In The U.S. Are Staying At A Shelter Operated By A Private Equity Tycoon | Homestead Temporary Influx ShelterSaul Martinez/Bloomberg |
| 27.03.2019 | Palantir wins $800 million contract to build the US Army’s next battlefield software system | Palantir just landed a landmark contract with the U.S. Army worth north of $800 million. The Washington Post reports that the Silicon Valley data analytics company was tapped over traditional defense contractor Raytheon on the project, whic... |
| 17.03.2019 | Defense Budget Likely to Deliver for San Diego | The upper parts of a U.S. Navy ship protrude from a BAE Systems dry dock, at right. The Pentagon has sent a proposed budget for ship repair and other spending to Congress. File photo by Jamie Scott Lytle
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| 17.01.2019 | These are all the federal HTTPS websites that’ll expire soon because of the US government shutdown | We like to think of ourselves as nerds here at TechCrunch, which is why we’re bringing you this.
During the government shutdown, security experts noticed several federal websites were throwing back browser errors because the TLS certificate... |
| 25.09.2018 | Trump’s new presidential limo is a beastly take on the Cadillac CT6 | The new presidential limousine — and an identical one called a “spare” that travels in President Donald Trump’s motorcade for added security — was spotted this week on the streets of New York. This new “Beast,” like so many before it, is a ... |
| 09.05.2016 | Dataminr was in an unpaid pilot with intel agencies when Twitter ended the deal | We’re heading into summer, but the chilly relationship between government bodies and private tech businesses is growing frostier by the day. In the latest development, it has emerged that Twitter requested one of its key B2B partners, Datam... |
| 06.04.2016 | This $1.4M iPad app might be worst case of government waste ever | Originally Published by:
If you’ve flown across the country at any point in the past couple of years, you’ve probably come into contact with the Transportation Security Administration’s Randomizer app on the iPad. It’s an incredibly simplis... |
| 04.04.2016 | The TSA Spent $1.4 Million on an App That Tells You to Go Right or Left | Read: Airport Security Is Apparently Not Very Good at Detecting Weapons or Explosives
You might have noticed the TSA's Randomizer app the last time you were at airport security. It's an iPad application that randomly directs you to go into ... |
| 05.11.2015 | The Most Militarized Universities in America: Our Ranking Methodology Explained | There is an abundance of rankings of US institutions of higher education. In compiling the 100 most militarized schools in America, we did not endeavor to determine the "best" of anything. We instead calculated what universities a... |
| 16.04.2015 | DEA, US Army bought $1.2M worth of hacking tools in recent years | bfishadow reader comments 25 with 20 posters participating
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| 12.12.2014 | Data as Infrastructure | Nick Sinai is an inaugural Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Nick is also a Venture Partner at Insight Venture Partners, a global software,... |
| 11.10.2014 | Former NSA director had thousands personally invested in obscure tech firms | Army General Keith Alexander.
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| 10.04.2014 | DATA Act, Which Would Make Government-Spending Data Available Online, Passes Senate | The Senate unanimously passed the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act, or DATA Act, today.
The DATA Act is designed to help bring new transparency to spending by the federal government, by making spending data available to the publi... |
| 19.11.2013 | When medical content providers go political | By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
It is an interesting time in medicine.
If we step back a few thousand feet and look down on America’s medical world, we see a mess. We see rules and regulations run amok. We see doctors under unprecedented pres... |
| 23.08.2011 | Slovenia Launches Supervizor, An Official Public Web App For Monitoring Public Spending | The threat of corruption is ever-present in areas like government spending, where miles of red tape, billions in assets, and a legitimate need for secrecy at times presents a potential trifecta for would-be defrauders. Slovenia, only a few ... |
| 16.06.2011 | Federal CIO Vivek Kundra Resigns, Plans to Join Harvard | The federal government is losing its first-ever chief information officer.
Vivek Kundra, the man behind Data.gov, the government IT Dashboard and the federal initiative to reduce data centers and move to the cloud, will leave his post in Au... |
| 02.04.2011 | Weekly Wrap-up: Goodbye Data.gov, Hating Bieber’s ‘Baby’, Augmented Reality For Librarians and More… | It was two short, short years ago that the Obama administration thrilled data and transparency wonks by launching Data.gov, USASpending.gov and a number of other ambitious sites. But as Marshall Kirkpatrick reported in our top story this we... |
| 26.01.2011 | Metabolix Oilseeds Gets $203,000 Grant To Test 'False Flax' As Possible Petroleum Replacement | A Cambridge, Mass. biosciences company that makes plastics, chemicals and energy from renewable crops rather than petroleum, Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBLX) today announced that its subsidiary, Metabolix Oilseeds, obtained a $203,000 grant f... |
| 13.05.2010 | There are lessons for the city from Federal CTO visit | Aneesh Chopra, the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States addresses the Chamber of Commerce event at the Cira Center.
If you think Philadelphia is mired in debt and inefficiency, try wading through the federal government.
The n... |
| 07.12.2009 | Irony: Federal Government Workshop On Openness… Closed To The Public | The Obama administration still has a very mixed record on transparency and openness. Despite promising to be a lot more transparent and open, the federal government has been extremely selective in where it actually is open. So, yes, it’s do... |
| 20.08.2009 | Acquia on Why Web Publishers Love Drupal—And How the Startup Balances Business With Belonging to an Open-Source Community | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
So you want to be a Web publisher? First you’ll need the modern equivalent of a printing press: a content management system (CMS). There are many to choose from, each with its... |
| 17.08.2009 | Is The Federal Government The Most Interesting Tech Startup For 2009? | A few weeks back I got to see the federal government’s CTO, Aneesh Chopra, speak twice during his first trip to Silicon Valley. I’ve seen him speak before (before he was appointed, when he was CTO for Virginia), but I have to admit I was pr... |
| 04.08.2009 | USA CTO Aneesh Chopra: We Need To Extend Technological Innovation Beyond Our Personal Lives | Tonight Aneesh Chopra, US Chief Technology Officer and Associate Director For Technology, spoke at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View during his first trip to Silicon Valley since he took office in an event that is being put on by... |
| 04.08.2009 | CTO Aneesh Chopra says technology can’t be siloed in government | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When U.S. government chief technology officer Ane... |
