Emerging Tech
DARPA Asks Teens What A Robot Future Looks Like
The agency has selected five winners from its high school film contest; their 5-minute videos offer visions of the social impact of robots.
Emerging Tech
Video: The Hubble Space Telescope at 25
NASA celebrates one of its greatest achievements.
Emerging Tech
GE Has 3D-Printed a Working Jet Engine
While the consumer 3D printing industry is going through a bit of an existential crisis, industrial 3D printing is going strong.
Emerging Tech
America Is Failing its Children by Not Teaching Code in Every High School
There’s a shortage of coders in the U.S., and schools should be the solution.
Emerging Tech
Autonomous Cars Will Destroy Millions of Jobs and Reshape US Economy by 2025
The transition is already beginning to happen.
Emerging Tech
IARPA Wants to Rethink Intelligence Collection
The agency is soliciting proposals for "means for collecting information from previously inaccessible sources."
Emerging Tech
Video: Jetpack Travel Like You've Never Seen it Before
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a jetpack!
Emerging Tech
What the Intelligence Community Can Teach the Rest of Government about Cloud
Three lessons from the National Security Agency and the CIA.
Emerging Tech
Long-Range Iris Scanning Is Here
An engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon says he’s invented technology that can identify someone from across the room with the precision of a fingerprint.
Emerging Tech
NASA Has Big Plans for the Next 20 Years -- But Can Its Budget Keep Up?
On Monday, NASA released its draft 2015 Technology Roadmaps to showcase its plans for technological innovation over the next two decades.
Digital Government
Open Data: A Multiyear Data Odyssey
It's a long journey from a bunch of numbers to a consumer app.
Emerging Tech
Why Driverless Cars Don't Need Windows
Automated vehicles shouldn't look like the ones humans operate.
Emerging Tech
Many Feds Still Uneasy About Cloud Use
A new report found that 44 percent of polled government tech gurus remain “uncomfortable” or “very uncomfortable” turning IT services and applications over to cloud service providers.
Digital Government
Technology Popular Theme in Agency Competitions
Agencies held twice as many contests and challenges in 2014 as they did in 2012, and the number of prizes also rose over those two years.
Modernization
The Chinese Military Is Afraid Wearables Will Reveal its Secrets
China’s military released an ominous warning May 10, telling troops and the wider public that network-connected wearable devices pose a national security risk when used by military personnel.
Modernization
Amazon Drone Delivery Will Track Customers Down No Matter Where They Are
The retail giant has outlined a plan for its proposed delivery drones to get packages to you in half an hour, regardless of location.
Modernization
Video: All The Times Microsoft Was Actually Ahead of the Curve
Microsoft has been innovating for a long time.
Emerging Tech
15 Technologies NASA Is Funding to Make Science Fiction a Reality
Each year, the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program awards funding to a set of research projects on the bleeding edge of technology.
Digital Government
Here’s What the New Tesla Battery Means for the Military
Elon Musk’s big announcement could revolutionize energy use for U.S. consumers—and that could be its biggest effect on national security.
Digital Government