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NSA didn't collect data directly from Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile, report says

The National Security Agency doesn't collect information directly from Verizon and T-Mobile USA due to their foreign ownership ties, a June 14 Wall Street Journal report says. But that doesn't mean the NSA fails to intercept that information, the report says, as officials believe they can still capture the metadata on 99 percent of U.S. phone traffic because most calls eventually travel through networks owned by U.S. companies that have been cooperating with the NSA.

Obama memo promotes wireless spectrum sharing

The Obama administration is seeking to promote more sharing of wireless spectrum in a series of actions outlined in a June 14 presidential memo. Agencies will be required to consider spectrum efficiency when procuring spectrum-dependent systems and hardware, the memo says.

FirstNet approves budget and structure, extends RFI

The First Responder Network Authority approved June 4 an organizational structure and a budget resolution that increases authorized spending to $20 million and obligates $50 million for fiscal 2013, says a National Telecommunications and Information Administration press release.

GSA considers mobile-friendly HSPD-12 services

The General Services Administration could soon allow agencies to register personnel for their identification cards from a smartphone or tablet. The agency issued a request for information June 5 on the viability of offering its identity management services in a mobile-friendly format.

White House shares API standards guide

"Before hands hit keyboards or anyone started writing any code, I think a number of people on our development team started thinking ahead to maintainability issues," said Bryan Hirsch, new media technologies tech lead in the Executive Office of the President.

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The national laboratories should emulate the Energy Department's innovation hubs, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said June 18 during a hearing of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. "This is the way the national labs, in my view, should do more of their business--with significant teams focused for an extended time on an important problem," Moniz said.

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The Bureau of Land Management may have lost $60 million in undervalued leases of public lands to coal mining companies because it used its own land value assessors rather than the ones ordered by an Interior Department regulation, a June 11 Interior Department inspector general  report  (.pdf) says.