Ideas
Why Federal IT Projects Fail (and How to Ensure Success)
As it turns out, projects are often derailed from the beginning.
Emerging Tech
Government Needs An ‘Ethical Framework’ to Tackle Emerging Technology
At SXSW, a beacon of technology idealism, mayors discuss how to deal with the difficult problems that can come with new tech.
Emerging Tech
On the Brink of a New Era of Spaceflight
After years of relying on Russia to get to space, NASA astronauts might soon fly on American-made launch systems.
Emerging Tech
The Army Will Need Traditional Vendors’ Help Putting Startup Tech to Use
The Army is all in on innovative startups, but it will likely rely on tried and true contractors to get the tech over the finish line, Lt. Gen. Eric Wesley told SXSW.
Ideas
Don’t Call It an ‘Arms Race’: U.S.-China AI Competition Is Not Winner-Takes-All
The most common framing of the two countries’ artificial-intelligence development is dangerous.
Emerging Tech
How a Library Embraced New Technology and Helped Build a Prosthetic Hand
The public library in a small Texas town used an assessment tool that helped officials eventually upgrade equipment—including buying a 3D printer. One community member used it to make a prosthesis.
Emerging Tech
U.S. Marshals Want Help Disposing of Virtual Currencies
The service is gathering market research on vendors capable of storing and disposing of cryptocurrencies seized during investigations.
Digital Government
NOAA Celebrates Weather Satellite Removal From GAO’s High Risk List
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration successfully navigated a major challenge to one of its weather satellite systems that could have derailed U.S. weather forecasting.
Policy
Background Investigations Tech Team Reassigned from DISA to Defense Security Service
By mid-summer, the National Background Investigations Service technical team will be under a new office as part of major shifts in the security clearance process.
Emerging Tech
Virtual Reality Could Make Disaster Response Training More Effective
In early tests of its augmented reality training software, a Texas-based startup made first responders perform faster and more accurately.
Emerging Tech
The Servant Economy
Ten years after Uber inaugurated a new era for Silicon Valley, we checked back in on 105 on-demand businesses.
Emerging Tech
We’ll Soon Learn Whether You Can Post 3D-Gun Plans Online
A proposed export-rules change has snagged over the question: is publishing such designs a boon to U.S. business or foreign terrorists?
Digital Government
How Data Analytics Could Help the Government Reduce Traffic Deaths
A D.C.-based startup with roots in the insurance market is using machine learning to predict the probability of car crashes on just about any stretch of road.
Emerging Tech
White House Establishes National Quantum Coordination Office
The new office will help coordinate quantum efforts across the government and private sector.
Emerging Tech
What’s So Special About the Next SpaceX Launch
Elon Musk’s company is on the edge of a new era in American human spaceflight.
Modernization
Cloud Computing Contributed $214 Billion to U.S. GDP in 2017
Exponential economic growth in the internet sector isn’t showing any signs of slowing down.
Emerging Tech
DARPA Highlights 10 Focus Areas for Innovative Small Businesses
The agency also stood up an in-house startup accelerator to propel the most promising tech to the commercial market.
Emerging Tech
Russia’s Pistol-Packing Robot Is Scrambling for Parts
The program’s foreign suppliers stopped shipping components after gunfire videos went viral.
Digital Government
Census’ Big Data Innovation Program Infects HHS with Promising Results
Officials at Health and Human Services took an idea from their colleagues at Census to use big data and public-private collaboration to design systems that can save lives.
Emerging Tech