Emerging Tech

DHS to Meet with Tech Companies in Silicon Valley Next Week

Applying for DHS funding and securing the Internet of Things are on the agenda.

Emerging Tech

NASA Celebrates 20 Years of Heliophysics

This spacecraft has kept an eye toward the center of our solar system.

Emerging Tech

Pentagon Watchdog: Show Us the Cost Benefit Analysis of Cloud

A forthcoming DOD IG audit may soon shed light on the extent the Pentagon and its components perform cost benefit analysis before acquiring cloud services.

Emerging Tech

The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers

The competition is fierce, the key players are billionaires, but the path—and even the destination—remains uncertain.

Emerging Tech

Here’s How Your Driverless Car Will Communicate With You, According to Google

Google plans to make its cars more communicative with light-up signs, audio cues, mechanical hands, and, eery “robotic eyes".

Digital Government

DARPA Kills Program That Would Have Launched Satellites with Fighter Jets

The next-generation rocket fuel involved turned out to be a little too explosive.

Emerging Tech

Will Social Media Mavens Take Leave of Absence to Help TSA Tweet Better?

TSA is on the hunt for a few good social media experts willing to devote six months to boosting the agency's customer service social media campaign.

Emerging Tech

Out of the Mouths of Bots

What building a robot in a person's image can reveal about identity and humanity

Emerging Tech

Decrypting the Encryption Debate

The ability to encrypt and use cyphers to hide messages from unauthorized readers goes back at least as far as Roman times.

Cybersecurity

Secret DHS Audit Could Prove Governmentwide Hacker Surveillance Isn’t Really Governmentwide

The intrusion-prevention system, named EINSTEIN 3 Accelerated, garnered both ridicule and praise following the OPM hack.

Emerging Tech

Emma, USCIS' New Virtual Assistant, Can Soon Answer Your Visa Questions

A rudimentary, text-based version of more advanced virtual assistants such as Apple's Siri, Emma interprets typed questions and direct users to relevant parts of the USCIS website.

Digital Government

FDA Crowdsourcing its Way to Precision Medicine. But What About Security?

A team at FDA is in the midst of launching PrecisionFDA, a cloud-based platform so researchers can work together.

Emerging Tech

Video: 9-Year-Old Cub Reporter Interviews NASA's Charles Bolden

This kid has big questions about NASA's future, including the space agency's space travel plans.

Emerging Tech

Energy Invests $125 million in Green Tech Projects

Days before COP21 in Paris, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is emphasizing the department's commitment to "innovation."

Emerging Tech

Defense Agency Wants to Talk About Operations on Twitter

The Defense Media Activity wants a contractor who can think about ways to use social media to talk to the public about defense.