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How government agencies evaluate, contract for, and oversee technology vendors and systems, including surveillance and IT purchases.
Covington, Georgia has paid Flock $201,000 through August 2026, up from $40,000 in 2020, Wired reported. Add-ons now sit beside a maintenance fee that has itself risen, so the camera count no longer predicts the invoice.
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Palantir's NHS Federated Data Platform deal has a break clause that would end it in 2027, but three Whitehall sources told WIRED the changeover has to be decided within weeks. The rest of its £670m UK book is untouched.
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Flock Safety's severance offer is roughly double what it has paid before, and the company told staff it expects to approve most applicants. Anyone holding a contract with Flock now has a continuity question.
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Flock Safety told buyers in 2019 that its license plate cameras were manufactured in the United States. Import records now show growing camera and radar shipments from a Thai supplier. WIRED could not establish where the cameras are assembled today.
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Boston ran about 45 Flock cameras for 156 days under a no-cost pilot. The city's surveillance report blames a Flock vendor error for three days of out-of-network access to plate data it had contracted to keep local.
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Richard Grabowski told a FedScoop-produced breakfast that CDM has to get faster and that responsible automation at scale is the route to it. The one interval he attached is a three-year roadmap for the program's SIEM service.
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James Frith told the Commons health committee that about 60,000 more people opted out of NHS data sharing in four months, and that what worries him is mistrust of Palantir rather than anything the platform has done.
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James Frith says mistrust of Palantir may be pushing patients to withdraw their records from research, and in the same letter he tells the health committee that trusts are no longer required to use the platform at all.
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Jose Linares held that agencies which inform executive branch policy count as the United States itself, so Apple can pull the security and purchasing records behind the government's own phone choices without a third-party burden test.
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