Emerging Tech
Video: NASA's Gecko Gripper Is the Outer Space Answer to Duct Tape
A sticky problem sometimes needs a sticky solution.
Emerging Tech
Video: Bringing Together Next-Gen Weather Forecasters
The Hazardous Weather Testbed is keeping its eye out for storms and new technology.
Digital Government
NASA's Tumblr to Give Users 'Regular Dose of Space'
The space agency is just the latest federal agency to make its debut on Tumblr.
Emerging Tech
International Space Station Astronauts' New Hobby? Space-Gardening.
A crop of red lettuce could pave the way to future crops grown on the space station and even on other planets.
Cybersecurity
Booking a satellite, busting on executive orders and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Emerging Tech
NASA Wants to Know if Open Innovation Challenges Are Working
The agency is looking for research on ways to crowdsource, such as through competitions.
Emerging Tech
Video: How 3D Printing Will Literally Make the Future
From health care to housing, it's everywhere.
Emerging Tech
Video: Curiosity Rover Celebrates 3 Years on Mars
It's been several years and a lot of mineral samples.
Emerging Tech
NASA Building Flying Space Drones
Drones offer a way to explore other planets and asteroids that rovers can’t.
Emerging Tech
NASA Searches for Link Between Electromagnetic Pulses and Earthquakes
Last week, NASA launched a challenge to determine whether there is a connection between electromagnetic signals and earthquakes.
Emerging Tech
Video: How to Drive a Lunar Spacecraft
It's more difficult than mastering the stick shift.
Modernization
Pictures from the stars, powered by cloud
NASA's Pluto flyby beamed never-before-seen images to audiences new and old. Cloud services helped make the event go smoothly.
Emerging Tech
NASA Helps Tame Earth-Based Fires Using Space-Based Technology
Last week, NASA announced a new tool to help fire fighters by providing them with a detailed glimpse of their blazing foe, according to an agency press release.
People
NASA's top watchdog talks IT
NASA Inspector General Paul Martin says the agency has made strides, but is still far from perfect when it comes to IT governance and cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity
Network maps, moisture maps and stalled job growth
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Emerging Tech
How Government Space Geeks at NASA Won the Internet
How NASA stumbled upon perhaps the greatest social-media strategy of our time.
Acquisition
'Tis the season for multiple award contracts
One-third of large federal agency contract obligations are made in the fourth quarter. SEWP and GSA's multiple award contracts get a quarter of their business in September.
Emerging Tech
Here's What Pluto Looks Like on Instagram
New Horizons sped past Pluto at 30,800 miles per hour, while its suite of instruments gathered data about the dwarf planet.
Digital Government
Pluto flyby earned NASA social media gold
NASA tweeted up a storm, engaged openly tongue-in-cheek on Twitter and gave Instagram the first look at a historic moment in U.S. space exploration history.
Digital Government