Federal agencies may miss a key deadline in the implementing of new cybersecurity reporting guidelines, according a recently published survey. Only a small minority of federal managers have used the new CyberScope
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Intellectual-property crime sounds like a benign, even academic, infraction. But the Department of Justice is getting tough on perpetrators and announced nearly $4 million in grants to local and state authorities to
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A White House report rating the stimulus finds it is making headway within the time frame provided and without busting the budget, The Washington Post reported. About 70 percent of the Recovery
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the launch of a new $10 million initiative aimed at providing high-tech equipment to high schools. The MENTOR program, short for Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach,
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An updated report on U.S. math and science education titled “Rising Above the Gathering Storm” indicates the nation shouldn’t start singing “Blue Skies†anytime soon. The report, an update of a 2005
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Head of the Small Business Administration Karen Mills announced support for a pilot program that recognizes 10 regional economies or “clusters†and that will enhance the role SBA plays in these regional
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At a monthly meeting of the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations earlier this week, co-chair of the council John Berry got the ball rolling on the future of teleworking by asking
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In wake of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell†fight yesterday, it appears defense spending will have to limp forward with the aid of a continuing resolution – an omnibus bill that basically
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The Washington, D.C., metropolitan areas is one of the best-performing during the post-recession era, according to MetroMonitor, a quarterly report by Brookings Institute’s Metropolitan Policy Program. By the second quarter of 2010,
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The Department of Defense has launched a fitness challenge for its civilian workers with the goal to record 1.5 million hours of physical activity by Oct. 31. DoD’s Civilian Personnel Policy Office
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