How digital twins keep Navy ahead on ship maintenance
With a digital twin of a ship, the Navy can conduct shipboard repairs and maintenance while at sea, ensuring the readiness of combat systems without the need to dock.
Linking self-driving cars to traffic signals might help pedestrians give them the green light
Because pedestrians at an intersection tend to trust traffic lights more than self-driving cars, cities might be safer if cars communicated their intentions to traffic lights rather.
DOD's plan for 'virtual critical care wards' for COVID-19 patients
The Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium wants health professionals to be able to deliver high-quality critical care to bedsides of COVID-19 patients in field hospitals, small rural health care facilities and even gymnasiums.
Fighting jet-lag, traveler’s diarrhea with implantable pharmacies
DARPA’s Advanced Acclimation and Protection Tool for Environmental Readiness program aims to develop implantable or ingestible bioelectronic carriers that will be able to manufacture, store and deliver therapeutic drugs to warfighters.
3D printing may increase health equipment supplies, but not soon enough
Public- and private-sector innovators are trying to break bottlenecks in the medical equipment supply chain with additive manufacturing, but the need vastly overwhelms current capabilities.
Fiber-optic internet cables could monitor earthquakes
A study provides new evidence that the same optical fibers that deliver high-speed internet and HD video to our homes could one day double as earthquake monitors.
NOAA expands use of unmanned systems
The new Unmanned Systems Operations Program will provide training, cybersecurity, acquisition and other centralized support services as the number of autonomous missions increase.
GSA bot builders add workforce capacity
Reskilled workers at the General Services Administration have created more than 40 automations across the agency’s business functions, increasing capacity by more than 90,000 hours.
Pandemic drones: Useful for enforcing social distancing or for creating a police state?
We might be fine with disaster drones ferrying urgent medical supplies, but how would we feel if they were indistinguishable from drones piloted by police, the military or private security companies? Now is the best time for policymakers to set limits on how drones can be used in public space.
Fine-tuning innovation to meet COVID challenges
Citizen scientists, researchers, industry and policy makers have enlisted distributed computing, artificial intelligence, drones and digital finance in the fight against the coronavirus.
How AI can reduce traffic congestion and fuel consumption
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory used artificial intelligence to design a computer vision system that helps keep traffic moving efficiently through intersections and has the added benefit of minimizing fuel consumption.
AF tests mixed-reality glasses for flight-line maintenance
Mixed-reality glasses are helping airframe maintenance staff with the Air Force’s 7th Bomb Wing improve efficiency by replacing tablets and large manuals.
Public-safety drone use soars as White House mulls ban for federal agencies
While a planned executive order would ban federal agencies from buying or using foreign-made drones, state and local public safety agencies are becoming increasingly dependent on them.
Blockchain protects IP, tracks tires, supports coronavirus response
Distributed ledger technology is being deployed to defend against counterfeit goods crossing the border, track the tires used on military vehicles and aircraft and support coronavirus response efforts.
DOE turns to AI to transform science
The Department of Energy announced plans to invest up to $40 million to research how artificial intelligence and machine learning can spur transformative advances across scientific disciplines.
Autonomous vehicles can be fooled to ‘see’ nonexistent obstacles
By strategically spoofing LiDAR sensor signals, attackers can fool a vehicle’s LiDAR-based perception system into “seeing” an obstacle that’s not really there.
Practical planning for a quantum future
It’s not too soon for agencies to begin preparing for quantum computing’s impact on government security, according to a new report.
Sensing atmospheric energy to identify Earth-bound disturbances
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s AtmoSense program aims to better understand how energy travels from the ground to the ionosphere. The hope is that the atmosphere could be used as a sensor to identify natural disturbances.
NIST tests law-enforcement's phone-hacking tools
Researchers with the National Institute of Standards and Technology have evaluated the methods investigators use to access data on damaged or locked phones.
Don’t fear a ‘robot apocalypse’ -- tomorrow’s digital jobs will be more satisfying and higher-paid
Robot-proof jobs will require greater interaction with technology, leading to higher pay and career satisfaction.
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