Tajha Chappellet-Lanier

Tajha Chappellet-Lanier is a technology reporter at FedScoop. She previously worked for Technical.ly DC, NPR and USA Today. If she had a superpower, it’d be navigating foreign metro systems.

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Library of Congress seeking ‘smart devices’ for the blind and visually impaired

Acquisition

Beau Houser speaks on a panel at the 2018 FireEye Cyber threat Intelligence Forum. (FedScoop)

Census Bureau hires new CISO Beau Houser

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Trump signs CASES Act into law to modernize constituent services

Tech

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USASpending.gov now has a home for (most) agency budget justifications

Tech

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Census Bureau hopes Siri and Alexa can help it reach hard-to-count populations

Tech

Mani Albrecht — A Customs and Border Protection worker at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. (Mani Albrecht / U.S. Customs and Border Protection / Flickr)

Google engineers are demanding the company cease work with CBP

Tech

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CBP wants to use facial recognition for ‘all passenger applications’

Acquisition

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Satellite data allows Census to validate addresses for 2020 from the comfort of the office

Tech

Civic Digital Fellowship — At the Civic Digital Fellowship’s 2019 demo day. (Tajha Chappellet-Lanier / FedScoop)

How to get more young people involved in civic tech, according to young people

Workforce