Double duty for video cards
How graphics processing units are being used for hard-core number crunching.
Air Force studying solar cells as lighter-weight power source for UAVs
By integrating solar cells into the materials used to build unmanned aerial vehicles, the size and weight of the aircraft can be reduced and flight times increased.
IBM offers new real-time data analysis tool
IBM has developed a technology that it believes will raise the threshold for analysis of massive amounts of data in real time.
Next goal for the Internet: managing information
Robert Kahn, whose work helped make the Internet what it is, discusses his ideas for the future, via the Digital Object Architecture, the Handle System and Knowbots.
Researchers close in on faster circuit chips using exotic carbon material
The exotic and puzzling properties of graphene are being studied and applied to advanced computing technologies in government-funded research programs that could help engineers advance the limits of conventional computing.
Robert Kahn on nanotechnology research
Corporation for National Research Initiatives chief executive Dr. Robert E. Kahn talked to GCN about how CNRI got involved in the supporting Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems and Nanotechnology Exchange research, and how that work might affect the government technology market.
DHS studies music's effects on first responders
The Science and Technology Directorate is studying a form of neurotraining that uses music to help responders sharpen their reflexes or relax when off-duty.
L.A. County maps existing, potential solar power systems
Los Angeles County has created a "solar map" of the rooftops of 1,100 municipal buildings there to assess the potential for placing solar energy installations.
Forge.mil key part of DISA's net-centric strategy
By embracing the ideals of community development, the Defense Information Systems Agency's recently unveiled Forge.mil repository fits perfectly into the net-centric operations.
Green IT, intelligent power grid said key areas for a national energy policy
A report by the National Science Board recommends that government take a leadership role in research and development programs to create a sustainable energy infrastructure.
Chicago adds virtual tours for visitors
Chicago has unveiled new touch screen technology at O’Hare International Airport to acquaint visitors with the city.
Energy solicits proposals for INCITE
The Energy Department program will award 1.3 billion processor hours on supercomputer systems at its Oak Ridge and Argonne national laboratories for computationally intensive research projects.
NIST releases roadmap for producing Smart Grid standards
As money from the economic stimulus law becomes available for development of an intelligent grid for energy distribution, interoperability and security standards for the new infrastructure become a high priority.
FutureFlex tubes for fiber optics
FutureFlex tubes from Sumitomo Electric offer agencies one way to future-proof their fiber-optic plans, with a system of tubes within tubes that can be installed now and filled with fiber-optic cabling when needed.
2009 GCN Best of FOSE judging slide show
GCN Lab Director John Breeden II and the Government Computer News staff make their case in selecting the best products at this year's IT exposition.
IPv6 creeps out of network core and toward the end user
A lack of business incentives has slowed deployment of IPv6, but Google’s experience with the new protocols show that “if you build it, they will come.”
NASA releases spherical movie about frozen Earth
NASA's hologram-like movie uses NOAA's Science On a Sphere projection system, which uses computers and four projectors to display images on a six-foot-diameter sphere.
NASA plans improved ‘Internet in space’
NASA’s Deep Space Network is on the way toward becoming a true Internet in space, thanks to the agency’s research and investment in software-defined radios.
NSBRI, Alion aim for software to help keep pilots oriented
The project calls for matching knowledge of human physiology with what computers can sense about an aircraft’s movement to predict disorienting effects likely to afflict pilots.
Robotic exoskeleton lightens soldiers' load
Soldiers will be able to lift as much as 200 pounds using a new robotic exoskeleton that transfers the weight to the ground through battery-powered titanium legs.
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