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Border Patrol Sniffs Out High-Tech Collars for Canine Agents
Homeland Security's K-9 teams might use wearable devices to ensure the dogs aren't injured on the job.
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DHS Seeks to Reboot Relationship with Election Officials as Cyber Fears Loom in 2018
DHS wants to ensure election systems are secure against Russian hackers before the 2018 election.
Tech
A Bot That Can Tell When It's Really Donald Trump Who's Tweeting
Using machine learning to figure out when the president is writing his own tweets
Tech
The U.S. is Facing a Choice Between the International Space Station and a New Deep Space Rocket
Two great tastes that are wildly pricey together.
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NARA Rethinks How to Store Presidential Records
The agency is currently transferring about 532 million Obama administration files into its archives.
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DHS Cyber Strategy Delayed for Trump Team Review
The department sees a "generational" opportunity for security in IT modernization, cyber lead says.
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Russia Joins U.S. in Race to Field Gun-Launched Swarmbots
A pair of Russian programs hastens the day that drone swarms may meet each other over the battlefield.
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Trump Has A New Innovation Office. It’s Unclear What That Means for 18F and USDS.
Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner will head up the office.
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Digital Rights Group Plans to Publicize Lawmakers who Oppose Internet Privacy Rules
The House plans to vote on the controversial measure Tuesday.
Tech
Is Trump Still Tweeting From His Unsecured Android Phone?
If so, he’s extremely vulnerable to being hacked.
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IT Modernization Bill Could be Reintroduced in Congress This Week
Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, could introduce a tweaked version of the Modernizing Government Technology Act, which passed the House in September but stalled in the Senate during the lame-duck session.
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Alexa, Can You Tell Me About GSA's Virtual Assistant Pilot?
The Emerging Citizen Technology Office is trying to help other agencies develop their own AI-powered projects.
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Nextgov Event: Join Us March 29 for Tech Refresh
Learn lessons from agencies that successfully modernized their tech systems.
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International Group Sees New Niche for Bringing Stability to Cyberspace
The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace is on a 3-year mission to create rules of the road.
Tech
NASA Didn’t Catch an Error in the International Space Station’s Data Until a Kid Pointed It Out
Big things happen when you pay attention in physics class.
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How Transparent Is Too Transparent, Oversight Committee Asks
Federal spending data, White House visitor logs and presidential tax returns were all the subject of a Congressional discussion on government openness.
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This is the Job-Killer the Trump Team Should Worry About, Obama Adviser Says
Nextgov chatted with Terah Lyons, formerly an adviser to the federal chief technology officer.
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GAO: Optimize Data Centers or Lose Them
Progress on closing data centers is mixed and the government’s optimization efforts are worse.
Tech
Why Women Weren't Allowed to Be Astronauts
Critics had plenty of reasons for wanting to disqualify women from spaceflight in its early stages—but none of them stuck.
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