Senior Tech Reporter

Carten Cordell

Carten Cordell is a Senior Technology Reporter for FedScoop. He is a former workforce and acquisition reporter at Federal Times, having previously served as online editor for Northern Virginia Magazine and Investigative Reporter for Watchdog.org, Virginia Bureau. Carten was a 2014 National Press Foundation Paul Miller Fellow and has a Master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He is also a graduate of Auburn University and promises to temper his passions for college football while in the office.

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GSA taps two vendors for SBIR Phase III pilot contracts

Tech

U.S. Marine Corps SSgt Michael George, USCENTCOM cybersecurity technician (Left), and U.S. Marine Corps SSgt. William Berotte, USCENTCOM cybersecurity technician (Right), demonstrate how simple it is to “hack” on older computer operating system at the USCENTCOM cybersecurity awareness expo, October 26, 2017. (Photo by Thomas Gagnier/ U.S. Central Command Public Affairs)

Hack the Marine Corps awards more than $151K in bug bounties

Defense

The finalists for the 2018 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal awards. The Partnership for Public Service selected nine winners for its annual awards, known as the “Sammies”, for their outstanding contributions to civil service. (Photo by Braun Film and Video, Inc.)

Feds focused on digital service, drones and data win at 2018 Sammies

Tech

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DHS overhauls its Science & Technology Directorate

Tech

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New GSA contract will offer automation services for contact centers

Emerging Tech

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Social Security’s legacy software will be ‘substantially gone’ by 2022, CIO says

Modernization

White House — The White House. (angela n. / Flickr)

Will the White House’s GEAR Center open doors for new innovators?

Acquisition

Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks to Robert Cardillo, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Oct. 24th 2016. The NGA delivers world-class geospatial intelligence that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, warfighters, intelligence professionals and first responders. DoD Photo by Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Dominique A. Pineiro

NGA embraces the promise of AI, but not without the humans to match

Emerging Tech

Post-doc fellows Meenakshi Singh and Jose Pacheco stand in front of Sandia’s ion beam generator in 2016. Project PI Meenakshi holds a sample qubit structure embedded in silicon. (Sandia National Laboratories / Randy Montoya)

The message for national labs: Advances in quantum computing are about people, too

Emerging Tech