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Dave Nyczepir

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Dave Nyczepir is a technology reporter for FedScoop. He was previously the news editor for Route Fifty and, before that, the education reporter for The Desert Sun newspaper in Palm Springs, California. He covered the 2012 campaign cycle as the staff writer for Campaigns & Elections magazine and Maryland’s 2012 legislative session as the politics reporter for Capital News Service at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he earned his master’s of journalism.

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surveillance facial recognition biometric security — (Getty Images)

DHS looking to evolve biometrics systems

Modernization

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Report: Benefits agencies, lacking guidance, slow to abandon traditional identity verification

Policy

YubiKey, Yubico, security keys — A try of YubiKeys, a popular form of multi-factor authentication. (Yubico)

Yubico replacing FIPS security keys used by feds

Tech

people training workforce reskilling — (Getty Images)

OPM offers guides for handling automation’s effect on federal workforce

Emerging Tech

ICAM, authentication, identity, credential, access management — (Getty Images)

White House updates identity, credential and access management policy

Workforce

Frank Konieczny, Air Force — Frank Konieczny speaks April 25, 2019, at the Security Through Innovation Summit presented by McAfee and produced by FedScoop and CyberScoop. (FedScoop)

The Air Force isn’t shying away from bad data

Tech

Department of Defense, DOD, Pentagon — (DoD photo by Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith)

Pentagon aims to expedite security clearance process with $75M award

Acquisition

Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas — Rep. Mac Thornberry at a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee in 2016. (DOD photo / Flickr)

This legislation could help more small tech companies land defense contracts

Acquisition

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Government wasted billions building customized IT over last 25 years, industry group says

Policy