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Count the FBI as yet another federal agency seeking to refine raw social media into intelligence gold. Among the things the FBI says could be extracted from the mountain of tweet streams, blogs and Read more...

The slow-motion disintegration of a Justice Department-led effort to create a nationwide land mobile radio system for federal law enforcement leaves many federal agencies back where they started when Read more...

FBI officials attribute a further delay in rollout of a $451 million troubled digital case management effort known as Sentinel primarily to insufficient hardware capacity. In a Justice Department Read more...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Nov. 9 it broke up a $14 million criminal ring engaged in clickjacking and advertising fraud using malware that infected more than 4 million computers Read more...

The Defense Department is leveraging cloud computing to help it overcome the high infrastructure costs presented by agile development, says a DoD official. "When we combine infrastructure as a Read more...

The Justice Department chief information officer would have slightly more money to spend in the coming fiscal year if the Senate Appropriations Committee gets it way. The committee approved its Read more...

Success with a financial sector cybersecurity pilot has led the Homeland Security Department to expand information sharing and response coordination efforts to additional industrial sectors, a top Read more...

Federal agencies react with wide disparity in the amount of time it takes to process complex Freedom of Information Act requests, compared to simple ones, according to a Sept. 6 report from Read more...

The Homeland Security Department acknowledges, in a privacy impact assessment (.pdf) updated Aug. 12, that the National Infrastructure Coordinating Center runs the risk of collecting and retaining Read more...

Technology programs at the Justice Department along with the department's topline budget will take a hit in the coming fiscal year should a House Appropriation subcommittee gets its way, although the Read more...