Emerging Tech

Amazon Can Now Deliver Packages To Your Car

You might want to clean out your trunk before you sign up.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Pentagon Innovation Group Aims to Protect Military Bases From Rogue Drones

DIUx awarded Dedrone a contract to test the group’s drone detection technology at military bases across the country.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Facebook Has Revealed the Hyper-Specific Internal Rules It Uses to Police Content

The company is publishing updated “Community Standards” that spell out for users exactly what they are allowed to post, and what is forbidden.

  • By Hanna Kozlowska, Quartz

Experts Say AI Could Raise the Risks of Nuclear War

A new RAND report says ideas like mutually assured destruction and minimal deterrence strategy offer a lot less assurance in the age of intelligent software.

  • By Patrick Tucker, Defense One

This FTC Group Wants To Keep You Safe from Blockchain Scams

But keeping up with criminals' tech innovation can be challenging.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Tech Support Scams Ramping Up, Microsoft Warns

If you're not careful, you could lose a lot of money.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Drone Technology Is Now Dangerous Enough to Kill For

Advances in consumer electronics are making drones available to armed forces without the resources to hire billion-dollar defense contractors.

  • By Tim Fernholz, Quartz

Defense Department is Pursuing Another Multibillion-Dollar Cloud

This cloud is focused on collaboration and business tools.

  • By Frank Konkel

Report: Many Feds Don’t Believe the Hype About Emerging Tech

Techies love the tried and true.

  • By Jack Corrigan

DARPA Wants to Merge Human and Computer Cyber Defenders

The CHESS program would build on DARPA’s autonomous cybersecurity contest and traditional hacking competitions.

  • By Joseph Marks

The Pentagon Is Building an AI Product Factory

Job One for the new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center will be delivering solutions for services’ specific problems.

  • By Patrick Tucker, Defense One
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Eric Schmidt Didn’t Know That Google Was Working the Pentagon’s AI Project

The former chairman of Google was kept in the dark about the company’s outreach to the Defense Department — by design, he says.

  • By Patrick Tucker, Defense One

6 Steps for Fast Government Project Deployment Using Agile Development

Many project managers are realizing that the fastest way to get their digital projects off the ground is through agile development.

  • By Cherie Jarvis

Citizens First

How the government plans to prioritize customer experience.

  • By Nextgov Staff

Why Agencies Should Be Tech Agnostic When Solving Problems

Don’t miss the forest for the trees, General Services Administration's emerging tech official said.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Google Safe Browsing Now Helps To Protect Android Users

Apps need protection, too.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

The Gatekeepers of the Government's Other Transaction Deals

Agencies don’t always know which companies have the bleeding-edge technology they seek. That’s where consortia come in.

  • By Aaron Boyd

Fuzzy Space Law Is Forcing the U.S. to Update its Orbital Regulations

There soon could be an "Office of Space Commerce.”

  • By Tim Fernholz, Quartz

U.S. Army Figures Out How To Do Facial Recognition in the Dark

New method uses machine learning to extrapolate features from thermal images.

  • By Patrick Tucker, Defense One

White House: 5 Percent of Government Jobs Could Be ‘Automated Entirely’

The Office of Personnel Management will look at how to retrain the employees affected.

  • By Jack Corrigan