Digital Government

Government stars rock the house at FedTalks 2011

Now is the best time to be an innovator, says Obama's chief technology officer.

  • By Camille Tuutti, FCW
Modernization

DOD targets new security approaches for the cloud

DOD is finding that the old security techniques, which weren’t that great anyway, won’t be enough in the dynamic world of the cloud.

  • By John Edwards, FCW
Digital Government

IG probes favoritism in DARPA contracts

DARPA may have a conflict of interest with a defense contractor closely tied to its director. The IG is launching a series of audits to inquire.

  • By Matthew Weigelt, FCW
Modernization

Navy to dismantle James Bond spy ship

The stealth ship inspired a villain's vessel in the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies."

  • By FCW Staff, FCW
Modernization

Army could ditch robots for mules

Pack-bearing robots aren't working out in tests, so the Army is considering a return to a proven older method.

  • By Michael Hardy, FCW
Modernization

Recommended reading

Wiretapping and cloud security; The promise of offshore wind energy; Relinking mind and body.

  • By FCW Staff, FCW
Digital Government

DARPA wants 'pre-crime' technology

If there's an algortihm out there that can analyze data to identify troubled soldiers, DARPA wants it.

  • By GCN Staff, FCW
Digital Government

DARPA plans tools to lighten load of battlefield data

DARPA's Insight program will develop automated tools to help human analysts sift and identify valuable battlefied data from a variety of information sources and platforms.

  • By Henry Kenyon, FCW
Digital Government

DARPA seeks to shape young minds

DARPA launches a program to interest grade school students in computer science careers.

  • By Henry Kenyon, FCW
Digital Government

DARPA aims for fiber-optic link between warfighters' minds, bodies

An award to Southern Methodist University will fund development of two-way, fiber-optic communication between prosthetic limbs and the wearer’s peripheral nerves, reports blogger Brian Robinson.

  • By Brian Robinson, FCW
Digital Government

Can technology erode a mountain of classified documents?

DARPA solicits bids for new technologies to help declassify the mountains of U.S. government classified data.

  • By Henry Kenyon, FCW
Digital Government

DARPA wants to blow up military design process, start over

The government's blue-sky R&D agency launches a new effort to reinvent the design and manufacture of defense equipment using computer aid and crowdsourcing.

  • By Henry Kenyon, FCW
Digital Government

DARPA tries to know when to hold 'em

DARPA is opening the door for applicants to design solutions with the assumption that most systems and networks have already been compromised.

  • By Henry Kenyon, FCW
Digital Government

DARPA unveils program to develop autonomous robots

DARPA's four-year Autonomous Robotic Manipulation program aims to produce robots that can perform complex tasks with minimal human intervention.

  • By Henry Kenyon, FCW
Digital Government

DARPA plans a network of virtual satellites

DARPA revises its program to launch clusters of small, wirelessly connected mini satellites.

  • By Henry Kenyon, FCW
Digital Government

DARPA sets privacy rules for its programs

New privacy principles provide ethics framework for future DARPA research.

  • By Henry Kenyon, FCW
Digital Government

DARPA lays out bedrock R&D privacy principles

Some folks at DARPA have come up with a set of privacy principles that offer some hope that privacy could become a part of fundamental technology R&D, writes blogger Brian Robinson.

  • By FCW
Digital Government

DARPA seeks young blood

DARPA is accepting proposals for its next Computer Science Study Group.

  • By Michael Hardy, FCW
Digital Government

DARPA crowdsourcing chief joins Microsoft

Peter Lee, head of DARPA's Transformational Convergence Technology Office, is stepping down to join Microsoft.

  • By Henry Kenyon, FCW
Digital Government

Batman and Robin's new secret hideout: DARPA's labs

The boffins at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency may be planning to study the science in the proposed new programs, but the wonks who devise acronyms -- we think it's a super-secret bureau nestled in the deep recesses of a secret agency -- must have worked overtime on the names.

  • By Michael Hardy, FCW
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