Digital mapping reaches the Last Frontier
USGS and Alaska spearhead an effort to digitally remap topographical features of the state to benefit transportation planning, climate change science and emergency response.
Which apps are driving increased demand for cloud storage, memory?
Cloud-based storage usage has increased 90 percent and memory by 100 percent among organizations using Verizon Terremark cloud service, according to a new company report.
How USPS merges compliance, security in its huge enterprise
The Postal Service now is using the RedSeal network monitoring platform, originally intended to evaluate firewall rules, to improve situational awareness and operational security across its extended enterprise.
Tech, tactics behind CitiWatch’s large-scale video surveillance system
A video surveillance system that combines thousands of cameras requires more than technology to be effective.
Force multiplier: PSIM leverages video surveillance networks in Baltimore
With thousands of cameras providing round-the-clock surveillance of Baltimore, the CitiWatch surveillance program turned to a video analysis platform from VidSys to help make sense of all of the data.
Alliance can help agencies glean more insight from machine data
Pentaho and Splunk offer a unified system that integrates data from a variety of platforms.
15 IT projects win 2013 GCN Awards
GCN honors projects, ranging from USDA's satellite-based anti-fraud program to the world's biggest public-sector hackathon, for excellence in IT innovation and performance.
Swimming robots could enlist for Coast Guard duties
The semi-autonomous Wave Gliders, which have performed well in rough conditions for NOAA, show potential for Guard duty.
FlexPod technology expanded to take on big data
Cisco and NetApp introduce converged infrastructure technology designed to help organizations handle data-intensive workloads.
Big data = big exposure. What can you do about it?
Big data, which involves a lot more than large databases, complicates security, but there are steps agencies can take to protect their information.
Park Police zooms in on crowd surveillance on the Mall
Crowds for the 2013 inauguration tested their ability to secure a large public event, but advances in high-definition networked video cameras — "computers with a lens" — brought them up to the task.
With video mash-up app, first responders set up virtual ops center
Winner of National Science Foundation-funded tech challenge offers tools to help emergency responders filter video and Twitter feeds from bystanders at the scene.
Video data-sharing library opens up big data for behavioral research
NSF- and NIH-backed Databrary will let researchers store and openly share videos and information about their studies.
What's keeping FAA's NextGen air traffic control on the runway?
New technology for the FAA's Next Generation Air Transportation System is coming online -- slowly -- but non-technical issues are delaying many of the program's benefits.
SAP, Esri offering a unified view for data, geospatial analysis
SAP business intelligence and mobile platforms will integrate with Esri ArcGIS.
Data center trades on its location for split-second access to federal data
Data centers in Washington, D.C, have a latency advantage over those located farther away in the race to take advantage of breaking federal economic data.
NASA laser comm will rocket data to and from space
NASA's Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) technology could increase data transfers from space by a factor of 100.
Hadoop data too big to move? Splunk may have a solution
Splunk Analytics for Hadoop lets users explore, analyze and visualize data natively within the open-source programming framework.
Navy's new NAVGEM sharpens its global weather forecasting
A Naval Research Lab team develops a more efficient set of algorithms to increase the resolution of its maps.
Ranking the world's best big data supercomputers
The Graph 500 ranks HPC systems not by petaflops, but on how well they handle data-intensive workloads. Livermore's Sequoia, an IBM Blue Gene Q system, leads the pack.
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