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Two public health measures – testing, to identify those infected, and contact tracing, to identify those who may have encountered an infected person – have…
China is using the same tactics it employed to drive down the price of telecommunications equipment from Huawei to flood the U.S. market with fiber…
Developing new drugs is costly, complex and generally takes years to reach a point where novel treatments are ready to be validated by clinical tests—but…
The Veterans Affairs Department is on the cusp of deploying a massive electronic health records system and wants to know if robotic automation can help.…
Adjusting to full-time telework has been the story of the pandemic for much of the federal workforce, and a new audit of the Interior Department’s…
Social media can be a powerful tool when disaster strikes as personal devices enable people to instantly amplify their experiences to a wider public audience,…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s newly released strategy to invest in technology to protect industrial control systems from cyberattacks relies on private-sector entities sharing…
The world’s fastest supercomputer teamed up with the White House’s expanding supercomputing effort to fight the novel coronavirus. Japan’s Fugaku—which surpassed leading U.S. machines on…
The Defense Intelligence Agency bid out its $12.6 billion Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise III, or SITE III, information technology services contract this week.…
One of the world’s biggest data producers and an agency that is into cloud in every definition of the word, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
A new algorithm adds a filter to videos and photos to prevent deepfakes, researchers say. In today’s complex media environment, people can struggle to separate fact…
At protests against police violence across the country, law enforcement authorities have deployed the tanks, tear gas and military equipment that they have at their…
askia popescu’s phone buzzes throughout the night, waking her up. It had already buzzed 99 times before I interviewed her at 9:15 a.m. ET last Monday.…
More and more politicians are starting to recognise that happiness rather than wealth might be a better way to measure their countries’ success. But with…
Of the FBI’s nearly 5,000 active counterintelligence investigations across the country, “almost half” are related to China, with the bureau opening a new China-related counterintelligence…
Pursuant to a May executive order, the Energy Department’s Office of Electricity wants to know what measures the power sector employs to safeguard its supply…
The General Services Administration’s decision to cancel a $15 billion small business contract vehicle was a shock to many in federal contracting. But seasoned members…
This story originally appeared on Stateline. A Hollywood film producer allegedly tried to use $1.7 million from the federal coronavirus business relief fund to pay…
Agencies can fire political appointees who skirt civil service laws when converting their statuses into career employees in the run up to a presidential transition,…