Emerging Tech
Patient S3: The woman who controlled a robotic arm with her brain
15 years after she lost the ability to move her body, Cathy Hutchinson is learning how to use her brain to control a robotic arm.
Emerging Tech
A Web-based app could help combat pirates and arms traffickers
The Navy is exploring technologies to mitigate maritime threats.
Digital Government
Exposed to anthrax? In the future, your shirt could provide early warning.
The Pentagon wants clothing and paint that contain bio-warfare detectors.
Emerging Tech
Brain scanning computer system takes over the work of stressed multitaskers
Researchers are investigating other mental states that could be measured.
Digital Government
Analyst: A Romney win could be bad news for Google
Paul Gallant suggests that a win by Mitt Romney could could mean less a favorable outcome for Google in the FTC probe.
Digital Government
Domestic drones could be hijacked or jammed, pilots and manufacturers warn
The Federal Aviation Administration is weighing the widespread use of remotely piloted aircraft.
Digital Government
Telework will play a big role in government digital strategy, federal CIO says
VanRoekel aims to reduce and simplify technology contracts.
Emerging Tech
Customs and Border Protection wants to e-cycle sensitive electronics
Homeland Security is undergoing a departmentwide communications upgrade that could send loads of security devices to the shredder.
Emerging Tech
Intel agency seeks technology to suspend users’ cultural perspective
Data visualization and game tools could offer ideas, says solicitation.
Emerging Tech
Pentagon wants to use disposable satellite clusters for intel
The goal is to provide troops with critical data at a fraction of today’s costs.
Digital Government
Pentagon seeks to join 3-D printing revolution
Technology could seed cheaper ways to make aerospace parts.
Emerging Tech
Google's self-driving cars get their first learner's permit
Nevada's Department of Motor Vehicles awarded the first official license for an autonomous car.
Digital Government
Pentagon seeks biotechnology to prevent burn scars
Treatment could reduce severity of injuries that limit mobility and damage nerves.
Digital Government
Federal Facebook could outdo conferences, former CIO says
Vivek Kundra says social networks in government offices could connect foreign-based colleagues and customers.
Digital Government
Insect-spying technology tops military entomology wish list
Tool will assess threat of vector-borne disease outbreak among ground troops.
Digital Government
Navy to talk with defense contractors about building solid-state laser weapons
Science-fiction fantasy may become a battlefield reality.
Emerging Tech
The government would like you to write a 'social media will'
Planning for your digital life after your physical life is no longer a strange niche behavior.
Emerging Tech
Pentagon wants software to ‘see through language’
Program would find hidden meanings in intelligence data.
Digital Government
Wanted: Computer program to spit out intel reports for busy Navy staff
Program should offer more than search engine output.
Emerging Tech