Today marks yet another Open Government Initiative deadline. Agencies are required to have their public comments submitted by today. So far there have been 2,000 ideas from the public and NASA has
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The contributions of military women throughout history were highlighted yesterday during remarks at the Pentagon’s Women’s History Month observation. The nation depends upon women, both military and civilian, at all levels of
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Government agencies are getting better at reporting specific statistics about their Freedom of Information Act operations, according to a report by the U.S. General Accountability Office. In line with transparency efforts, Congress
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Despite historic recruitment rates since the end of the military draft, the Department of Defense continues to take measures to ensure prolonged recruitment successes, according to a senior Pentagon official. In a
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The key planks in the Obama strategy in Afghanistan can be characterized as the three R’s: regaining the initiative against the insurgency, resolving the political tensions and grievances,and rebuilding and reinforcing, said
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This morning at the Microsoft Office in Chevy Chase, Congresswoman Donna Edwards addressed local high school students at this year’s DigiGirlz Day. This event was created by Microsoft for 8th – 12th
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Simultaneously held with Fix a Leak Week, Sunshine Week is less about tools and more about transparency. Held March 14-20 this year, Sunshine Week was launched in 2002 by Florida Society of
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Yesterday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Alejandro Mayorkas announced three initiatives designed to strengthen the efficiency and accuracy of the E-Verify
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based civil liberties group, (working in accordance with the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkley, School of Law), filed
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The advanced technology airport scanners continue to be shrouded in controversy. TSA revealed that the “virtual strip search†(as termed by privacy advocates) has sparked more than 600 privacy complaints by airport
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