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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Report to Congress: You have (most of) the tech capacity you need

Tech

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Senate bill would limit law enforcement use of facial recognition

Tech

Margaret Weichert, deputy director, OMB — Margaret Weichert speaks Nov. 14, 2019, at the Workforce Summit presented by FedScoop and WorkScoop. (Scoop News Group)

Margaret Weichert details federal workforce progress, and what’s to come

Workforce

Dome of the U.S. Capitol Building, Congress, House, Senate, Washington, D.C. — (REUTERS / Erin Scott)

The Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress gets another year

Tech

Margie Graves — Deputy Federal CIO Margie Graves, right, speaks with Susan Fallon Brown of Monster Government Solutions at the Workforce Summit presented by FedScoop and WorkScoop, Nov. 14, 2019. (Scoop News Group)

What comes after cyber for federal reskilling initiatives? Data science

Workforce

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Centers of Excellence program issues two new RFIs for OPM modernization

Modernization

Customs and Border Protection — Agriculture inspection specialists with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, National Agriculture Cargo Targeting Unit, inspect containers of imported goods for invasive insect and plant species at the Port of Baltimore July 26, 2017. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection / Glenn Fawcett)

DHS is looking into using blockchain to track raw material imports

Emerging Tech

A screenshot of Code.gov.

Big believer in government open source? Help with an open task on code.gov

Tech

USASpending.gov. (Screenshot)

USASpending.gov data improving, but limitations remain, GAO says

Tech