Policy

Wall Funding Remains In Limbo But Both Sides Argue For Border Security Tech

Democrats and Republicans from both chambers of Congress said they want cutting-edge tech patrolling the border but GOP members of the conference committee say they want physical barrier funding, too.

  • By Aaron Boyd
Emerging Tech

Why Flying Cars Are an Impossible Dream

The air taxi is the Godot of technology: always on its way, never here.

  • By Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

FAA Declares the Super Bowl a 'No Drone Zone'

People who violate the temporary flight restriction will face jail time and hefty fines.

  • By Jack Corrigan
Ideas

How to Build a Better Great Wall

The idea of creating a robust, intelligent technology barrier as opposed to a static physical one has been floated before.

  • By John Breeden II
Emerging Tech

FAA Rule Would Let Drones Fly Over People and At Night Without a Waiver

The move would greatly open the use of small drones but at least one lawmaker is worried about the privacy of people on the ground.

  • By Aaron Boyd
Emerging Tech

The Transportation Department is Funding Autonomous Drones

It also wants to research how self-driving vehicles can be manipulated to threaten the public.

  • By Jack Corrigan
Emerging Tech

The Grim Future of Urban Warfare

New technologies are making war even more horrific.

  • By Darran Anderson, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

Humans Made Drones by Copying Birds. Birds Are Fighting Back.

As machines fill the skies, they meet resistance from the animals who already live there.

  • By Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

10 Problems DHS Wants Innovative Small Businesses to Solve in 2019

The department will be offering millions of dollars to small businesses able to offer solutions to these 10 tough technical problems.

  • By Aaron Boyd
Ideas

Grading the 2018 Technology and Government Predictions

Here's what came true for government agencies—and what didn't.

  • By John Breeden II
Emerging Tech

Surveying the Public in a City Being Used as Federal Drone Testing Site

Taking the temperature of San Diego residents before UberEats starts deploying delivery drones to the skies.

  • By Michael Grass
Emerging Tech

The U.S. Military’s Drone Swarm Strategy Just Passed a Key Test

DARPA-funded drones worked together despite heavy electronic-warfare defenses.

  • By Patrick Tucker, Defense One
Emerging Tech

Pentagon Wants More Money for Lasers To Defend Against Missiles, Drone Swarms

Directed-energy weapons are with a factor of two or three to being militarily useful, the Pentagon’s top scientist said.

  • By Patrick Tucker, Defense One
Cybersecurity

DJI Vulnerability Let Hackers Spy on Drones

The drone company has fixed the problem.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Emerging Tech

China’s Beating the U.S. to Market on Combat Drones, By Copying U.S. Technology

America seems to have squandered a 10-year head start.

  • By Patrick Tucker, Defense One
Emerging Tech

These Drones Can Search and Rescue Without GPS

Traditional technologies don't always work in remote areas of the wilderness.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Emerging Tech

FAA Now Lets Certain Drones Fly Near Airports

Pilots will have to apply first, of course.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Cybersecurity

Border Agency Didn’t Secure Drone Surveillance Video, Photos for 2 Years

An auditor’s report found major security and privacy deficiencies in Customs and Border Protection’s drone surveillance program.

  • By Joseph Marks
Emerging Tech

It’s Now Possible To Telepathically Communicate with a Drone Swarm

DARPA’s new research in brain-computer interfaces is allowing a pilot to control multiple simulated aircraft at once.

  • By Patrick Tucker, Defense One
Emerging Tech

There’s Finally a Perfect Use for Drone Delivery

Burgers and beers take flight.

  • By Mike Murphy, Quartz
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