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DHS: Biometrics Could Cut the Over 700K Visa Overstays

About 1.47 percent of foreign travelers with visas overstayed their expected departure.

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There Is a Place for USDS, 18F in Trump Administration

U.S. Digital Service would receive $19 million, while 18F would get $21 million.

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CYBERCOM Budget Request Focused on Elevation to Full Command

The command is hard at work prepping for elevation, but with no strict timeline, Adm. Michael Rogers said.

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Agencies Struggle to Stop Using Social Security Numbers as Identifiers

Ten years after agencies were to limit using SSNs, they've seen "limited success," GAO said.

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Budget Spares NASA From Cuts As Deep As Other Research Agencies

The NASA plan includes cuts across most of the space agency’s programs.

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The Bumps, Cuts and Zeros in Trump’s Tech Budget

Federal IT sees an overall boost in spending, but many research programs take a hit.

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Trump Budget Creates $228M Technology Modernization Fund

Agencies would be able to borrow from the fund to update systems, but they would need to pay it back.

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Trump’s Budget Would Gut Government Science — Except for the U.S. Nuclear Program

Here's how Trump’s proposed budget would decimate government science programs, by the numbers.

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Senator Presses FTC on Hackable Toys

Internet-connected toys can expose children’s personal information or be used as surveillance tools.

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Contract to Watch: State Department's $850M Effort to Revamp Passports and Services

The Bureau of Consular Affairs is aiming for better customer service for passports and renewals.

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Pentagon Mapmakers Want To Tap Mobile Ad Technology. Here's Why.

NGA is scoping private-sector technology at incubators in Boston, Austin and New York.

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Government Needs Strategic Vision for Emerging Tech, Advisory Group Says

The Trump administration should tackle networking speed advances like the Obama administration did cloud, NSTAC draft report says.

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GAO to Agencies: Get a Data Center Plan

A handful of agencies are doing the bulk of the government's consolidation and that's a problem, GAO said.

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In Urgent Request, U.S. Special Ops Adds 350 Kamikaze Drones to Fight ISIS

And that's not all. The command is also opening a drone-hacker lab to help keep up with ISIS weaponeers.

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DHS Lags on Some FITARA Benchmarks

In all three cases, DHS said it had achieved the milestone, but GAO’s review found otherwise.

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Lawmakers To Trump: Without A Science Adviser, You'll Keep Falling For Fake News

Democrats urged the president to hire a qualified OSTP director to help sort fact from alt-fact.

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White House Adviser Wants to Move Cyber Risk Decisions Up the Chain

Cybersecurity Coordinator Rob Joyce also urged members of an advisory board to help the government combat botnets.