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FedWire: New astronauts, open source and PDFs

February 20, 2014

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NASA announces Innovation in Climate Education Tribal Awards.

Practices for interagency collaboration.

The 2014 Black Engineer of the Year STEM conference.

Health organizations slow on business intelligence systems.

The benefits and risks of PDF.

Live from a digital classroom with Education Secretary Arne Duncan

Sunlight Foundation announces new Congressional Record Parser.

New astronaut class visits the Pentagon.

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