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NSA’s Open Source “Accumulo” At Center of White House Veto Threat

Dan Verton | Homeland Security Today | November 30, 2012

The White House Thursday threatened to veto the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2013, citing, among other things, a provision dealing with the National Security Agency’s (NSA) open-source database project known as “Accumulo,” arguing that the bill could hinder NSA’s ability to support the new national defense strategy. Read More »

NSTIC Workplan Available In Advance Of Implementation Meetings

Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceGovernmentIT | August 13, 2012

The Identity Ecosystem Steering Group published a formal "workplan" (.pdf) Aug. 3 for implementing the White House's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, or NSTIC. The workplan comes in advance of the first meeting of the Steering Group in Chicago, Aug. 15 and 16. Read More »

Obama Administration Cites 'National Security' More Than Ever To Censor, Deny Records

Jack Gillium and Ted Bridis | Huffington Post | March 17, 2014

The Obama administration more often than ever censored government files or outright denied access to them last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, according to a new analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.

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Obama Campaigns For Veterans' Mental Health

Scott Horsley | NPR | September 1, 2012

On Friday, President Obama was at Fort Bliss, Texas, where he spoke to troops and met with military families, including some who lost loved ones in Afghanistan. As that war winds down, the president is ordering additional help for those with invisible battle scars. A rash of suicides has shown mental injuries can be just as deadly as a roadside bomb. Read More »

Obama Lets NSA. Exploit Some Internet Flaws, Officials Say

David E. Sanger | The New York Times | April 12, 2014

Stepping into a heated debate within the nation’s intelligence agencies, President Obama has decided that when the National Security Agency discovers major flaws in Internet security, it should — in most circumstances — reveal them to assure that they will be fixed, rather than keep mum so that the flaws can be used in espionage or cyberattacks, senior administration officials said Saturday.  But Mr. Obama carved a broad exception for “a clear national security or law enforcement need,” the officials said, a loophole that is likely to allow the N.S.A. to continue to exploit security flaws both to crack encryption on the Internet and to design cyberweapons.

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Obama orders agencies to make data open, machine-readable by default

Sean Gallagher | ArsTechnica | May 9, 2013

President Barack Obama issued an executive order today that aims to make "open and machine-readable" data formats a requirement for all new government IT systems. The order would also apply to existing systems that are being modernized or upgraded. If implemented, the mandate would bring new life to efforts started by the Obama administration with the launch of Data.gov four years ago. Read More »

Obama Should Fire His FCC Chairman

Zephyr Teachout | Politico Magazine | May 19, 2014

...[L]ast Thursday, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler, proposed a network neutrality rule that would authorize those pay-to-play fast lanes. The FCC approved the proposal but will take public comment over the next four months before a final ruling...

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Obamacare Contractors Were Big Campaign Donors

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | October 10, 2013

The list of contractors that helped implement the White House’s landmark health care reform law includes a who’s-who of top-tier political donors, according to a review by the Sunlight Foundation transparency group. Read More »

Obamacare, Failing Ahead Of Schedule

Ross Douthat | New York Times | October 19, 2013

THIS is not the column about the Obamacare rollout I expected to write. [... For now there is a more pressing subject: The online federal health care exchange, the heart of the Obamacare project, is such a rolling catastrophe that it may end up creating a major policy fiasco immediately rather than eventually. Read More »

Obama’s Efforts to Control Media Are ‘Most Aggressive’ Since Nixon, Report Says

David Kravets | Wired | October 10, 2013

The President Barack Obama administration has “chilled the flow of information on issues of great public interest,” according to a Thursday report that amounts to an indictment of the president’s campaign pledge of a more open government. Read More »

Official: The White House Loves Open Source

Glyn Moody | ComputerworldUK | February 6, 2012

Recently, the White House has adopted a scheme that we Brits have been using for some time now: online petitions. The basic idea is the same:

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Online and Open Source: The Health Insurance Marketplace at HealthCare.gov

Megan Slack | The White House Blog | September 19, 2013

On October 1, 2013, Americans will have a new way to find affordable health insurance: the Health Insurance Marketplace. Read More »

Open Access Advocates Protest The FIRST Act

Sal Robinson | Melville House | November 18, 2013

When, in February 2013, the White House issued a directive stating that all larger federal agencies (agencies that spent over $100 million R&D annually) should make the results of any federally funded research available to the public within a year of publication, Open Access advocates cheered. [...] However, a new bill [...] now threatens to reverse the progress made earlier in the year. Read More »

Open Access Gains Momentum In Washington

Staff Writer | MIT News | April 12, 2013

When MIT faculty adopted an open access (OA) policy for their scholarly articles in March 2009, they expressed a strong philosophical commitment to disseminating "the fruits of their research and scholarship" as widely as possible. The MIT Libraries are paying close attention to recent events in Washington that have the potential to expand this commitment... Read More »

Open Access Petition Passes 25,000 Threshold

Matt Enis | Library Journal | June 4, 2012

A petition calling for public access to all federally funded research posted last month on the White House’s “We the People” website has garnered the 25,000 signatures necessary to be considered for action by the Obama Administration. Read More »