Army plans unified virtual training environment
The Synthetic Training Environment will combine today's training environments to better manage collective training across land, air, maritime, space and cyber domains.
Cities await announcement of drone pilot program winners
The Federal Aviation Administration will soon name the 10 winners of drone Integration Pilot Program that will help expand the integration of unmanned aerial systems into the national airspace.
Chicago Is 1st Major City to Make Bike Shares Lock to Something
The ‘lock to’ requirement will be phased in as part of a six-month pilot in the city’s South Side.
Solar Designation Program Taps 200th U.S. Community
SolSmart’s 200 designees are located in 35 states and the District of Columbia, encompassing more than 59 million Americans.
Getting blood to wounded troops via drone
The Pentagon's experimental unit wants ideas on how to use drones to deliver medical supplies to troops in remote locations.
Rhode Island Seeks Private Partner on Autonomous Transit Project
The state DOT is eyeing a targeted pilot in an underserved part of its capital that’s ripe for AVs.
A DARPA-funded stab at AI-driven software development
Bayou uses deep learning to help programmers write snippets of code that contain Java application programming interfaces.
Instantaneously Linking 3-1-1 Callers to Translators
With its Language Access Plan, Pittsburgh’s goal is “to assist all residents and to provide access to all resources.”
Coming Soon to Ann Arbor: Driverless Bus Shuttles on Campus
The University of Michigan believes it’s the first to deploy AVs on a college campus.
Agencies see big upsides to RPA
Over 20 federal agencies are experimenting with robotic process automation, a technology that some estimate could save the federal government billions of dollars.
Bot management 101: What one agency learned from its RPA pilot
The Bureau of Fiscal Service discovered that managing robotic process automation is more like managing staff than it thought.
Facial recognition in the dark
Army researchers have developed a way to enhance images from night-vision cameras to match them with photos in existing biometric face databases or on watch lists.
Taking down malicious drones
The White House has proposed allowing the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to detect and disable drones that pose a safety or security threat to specific U.S.-based assets or missions.
Pittsburgh Airport Partnership Will Create Testing Ground for New Technology
Artificial intelligence could soon make its way into the aviation space through a collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University.
What Cities Need to Know About Chatbots and Data Security
Chatbots make city services more efficient, but are they safe to use?
Salt Lake City, NYC land wireless testbed pilot
The National Science Foundation’s Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research program named the first two cities that will serve as testbeds for new communication and networking technologies.
Building a better chatbot
Robotic process automation can help make agencies' internal chatbots more useful.
NIST generates quantum-based random numbers
National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers are using quantum mechanics to generate truly random numbers, potentially enhancing security and cryptographic systems.
Blockchain, automation and learning to love your legacy systems
HHS’ Jose Arrieta makes the case that a strong data layer can serve as middleware for microservice-driven modernization.
Show and tell for emerging tech
GSA's emerging technology working groups are running pilots in virtual reality, artificial intelligence, blockchain, robotic process automation and social technologies.
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