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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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United States Department of Commerce Building (Photo by James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images)

Commerce appoints 27 experts to National AI Advisory Committee

AI

Health Secretary Xavier Becerra delivers remarks on medical debt in the White House on April 11, 2022. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

HHS IT coordinator researching algorithmic bias and implications for health equity

Modernization

How DHS has tried to improve election security matters

Former DHS official convicted of stealing government data, software to create commercial version

Cyber

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IRS agrees to modernize Where’s My Refund app, provided there’s funding

Tech

Sean Connelly, TIC Program Manager, CISA, DHS — Sean Connelly speaks Jan. 28, 2020, at the Zero Trust Security Summit presented by Duo Security and produced by FedScoop and CyberScoop. (Scoop News Group)

Final, cloud TIC 3.0 use case expected in months

Cyber

White House, Office of Management and Budget, West Wing, Press Briefing — (Getty Images)

White House declares Year of Evidence for agencies

Policy

GSA building — The General Services Administration headquarters in April 2012. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

GSA updating IT acquisition approach to reduce energy use

Acquisition

Gerald Caron delivers remarks at the 2022 Zero Trust Summit in Washington, D.C. (FedScoop)

HHS OIG took the Zero Trust Maturity Model a step further

Cyber

Customs and Border Protection, Miami — A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer greets international passengers at Miami International Airport in February 2019. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection / Flickr)

National Vetting Center piloting automation of citizenship verification

Modernization