Emerging Tech
It’s Getting Harder And Harder to Tell a Self-Driving Car From a Regular One
As with smartphones, digital cameras, and most other technology, when demand increases, the size of the sensing technology gets more compact.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Could Build New Drugs Faster Than Any Human Team
Startup Atomwise has built a system which attempts to generate potential drugs for diseases like Ebola and multiple sclerosis.
Digital Government
You Can Now Buy the Brains Behind Amazon’s Alexa
The deep neural networks that power Amazon’s popular voice assistant are up for sale.
Digital Government
Watchdog: Energy Department Mismanaged Some R&D Investments
The Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs need to closer monitor award recipients.
Modernization
The Secret Ingredients NASA Used to Build Its Huge Photo Library
The repository is the culmination of a 3-year effort to make NASA’s data more open and accessible.
Cybersecurity
Advice to Trump: Top Cybersecurity Talent Costs Money
The Trump administration should increase pay incentives for cyber workers, an accrediting organization says.
Digital Government
House Oversight Chair—And IT Reform Ally—Won't Run for Reelection
Chaffetz was a thorn in the Obama administration’s side, using his oversight powers to review the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, and repeatedly probed Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
Modernization
Virtual roadblocks to modernization
Our aging federal IT infrastructure is a big impediment to using state-of-the-art tech applications for government service delivery.
Acquisition
Is IT exempt from Trump's 'Buy American' order?
Given the global supply chain, determining the national provenance of a piece of technology is a tricky business. And in any case, Congress long ago carved out an exception for commercial IT products.
Artificial Intelligence
Hitachi Built an AI Security System That Follows You Through a Crowd
It’s being developed to help make you safer, says Hitachi.
People
McKinsey: A public sector rethink could save $3.5 trillion worldwide
Governments around the world stand to save $3.5 trillion annually within the next five years if they maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of their spending.
Modernization
Oversight chief won't seek new term
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, will not seek re-election to Congress in 2018.
Acquisition
JIDO goes agile, but can DOD?
The Joint Improvised-threat Defeat Organization has spent the last five years implementing an agile DevOps framework, but scaling that across the DOD is another challenge altogether.
Emerging Tech
People Are Ready For Flying Cars—But Only If They Drive Themselves
According to one poll, many would prefer a robot escort them above the Earth.
Digital Government
Trump’s Executive Order Promotes American Tech Workers Instead of Foreign Ones
There’s plenty of legislation attempting to do the same thing.
Cybersecurity