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Critical Update: What a Treasury Office is Learning from Its Blockchain Projects
That’s not the only emerging technology the Fiscal Service Bureau’s innovation office is experimenting with.
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Transportation Department Rolls Out New Program to Further Drive Drone Integration
It will build on a recently completed pilot that used drones to deliver small packages, count cattle—and more.
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Self-Driving Shuttles Are Set to Be Deployed at Yellowstone National Park in 2021
The National Park Service is exploring emerging, autonomous technologies through a new pilot program that the public can opt to participate in.
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4 Startups Tapped to Pilot Capabilities at Defense’s 5G Living Lab
At some U.S. military bases, next generation connectivity is right around the corner.
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Naval Hospitals Deploy Germ-Killing Robots Amid Pandemic
The tools are intended to provide an extra level of disinfection against COVID-19.
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NOAA Partners with Google to Boost Weather Forecasts with AI
The roughly $10 million deal will also incorporate new hands-on training opportunities for both entities’ personnel.
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NIST-Supported Quantum Consortium Launches Committee on National Security
The group will explore the on-the-rise technology’s implications within the crucial defense-driven realm.
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NGA Offers Cash Prizes for Tech that Can Identify a Location By Its Sound
The agency intends to figure out whether specific locations can be distinguished using sound-based machine learning methods.
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Defense Department Jumpstarts Deployment of AI-Driven, Cancer-Detecting Augmented Reality Microscopes
Similar capabilities could be applied to the realm of radiology.
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How the Energy Department is Working to Engage Americans on Exascale Supercomputing
Officials also offered Nextgov updates on how the buildout of U.S. exascale machines is unfolding.
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NASA Greenlights Hundreds of Millions in Advanced Space Tech Demonstrations
Among the awards is a proposal to bring 4G connectivity to space.
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NGA Contest Unearths New Ways to Help Measure the Planet’s Magnetic Field
The agency funded five projects through its global MagQuest competition.
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Homeland Security Funds 5 New Projects Exploring Blockchain Technology
The move builds on several others the agency recently made in pursuit of modernization.
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Pentagon Awards $600 Million to Spearhead 5G Experiments Across Five Military Bases
It’s only the beginning of an ambitious effort to test and scale the technology’s potential to strengthen the department’s capabilities.
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Pandemic-Fighting Supercomputer Gains Upgrade through Coronavirus Relief Funds
And boosts to other U.S. supercomputing systems are likely on the horizon.
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House Lawmakers Re-Introduce Bill to Provide Legal Backing for Blockchain Records
It marks the latest of several other acts recently introduced that hone in on the emerging technology.
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Defense to Outfit and Steer Military Dogs with Augmented Reality Goggles
Sights are set on tapping new technology to help better protect soldiers and the canines they guide.
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White House Launches Single Site for the Government’s Quantum-Focused Activities
It accompanies the release of a new report highlighting key areas to focus quantum research.
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NNSA Buys New Supercomputer to Protect Nuclear Stockpile
Worth more than $100 million, Crossroads will support predictive weapons calculations and replace an aging system.
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