Digital Government

DARPA Picks Boeing To Build Its New Space Plane

The research agency hopes its XS-1 jumpstarts a whole new industry of very-low-cost satellite launches.

Emerging Tech

DHS: Biometrics Could Cut the Over 700K Visa Overstays

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

Modernization

Apple Wants to Teach You How to Code Apps

Learn to code, the iPhone way.

Emerging Tech

San Francisco to Delivery Robots: Get Off the Damn Sidewalk

A city lawmaker has proposed legislation banning autonomous delivery-bots. But the battle over who gets to use the sidewalk may just be getting started.

Digital Government

For Trump’s Budget to Work, the US Will Need the Biggest Technology Boom Since World War II

In order to deliver both massive tax cuts and end U.S. borrowing within the decade, Trump’s budget forecasts the U.S. economy will grow at a real rate of more than 3 percent

Digital Government

Coding Is Not 'Fun,' It’s Technically and Ethically Complex

Insisting on the glamor and fun of coding is the wrong way to acquaint kids with computer science.

Modernization

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.

Emerging Tech

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.

Emerging Tech

What Are Microservices and Why Should Government Care?

The General Services Administration is experimenting with some of the easy-to-tweak services that power online shopping.

Digital Government

The Secret to Better Weather Forecasts Could Be in Meteorologists' Eyes

NOAA is using eye-tracking technologies on weather forecasters to ascertain how they adjust to more, faster data on their video monitors.

Cybersecurity

Cyberwar Is Officially Crossing Over Into the Real World

Online warfare already wreaks havoc on the physical world, and it's only going to get worse.

Emerging Tech

GAO Lists Pros and Cons of Internet of Things for Congress

The agency examined the costs and benefits of the growing market, per a congressional request.

Digital Government

Army Wants to Let Troops off the ‘Digital Leash.’ That’s Easier Said Than Done.

Gen. Mark Milley’s injunction against IT-enabled micromanagement will require leaders at all levels to re-think what it means to be part of the profession of arms.

Cybersecurity

Who Are the Biggest Payers to Global Ransomware Hackers?

All bitcoin transactions are permanently recorded on the blockchain, and anyone can view them.