Energy orders up most powerful supercomputer
The Department of Energy signed a $600 million deal with Cray for a 1.5-plus exaflop supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab.
AF Research Lab pushes implants for biomonitoring
The Air Force Research Lab and a biosensor startup have developed an implanted sensor that would allow medical personnel to continuously monitor troops for indications of a potential illness.
AF Research Lab pushes implants for biomonitoring
The Air Force Research Lab and a biosensor startup have developed an implanted sensor that would allow medical personnel to continuously monitor troops for indications of a potential illness.
Geospatial intelligence gets SMART
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity wants a fully automated way to fuse and process the images and spectral data coming from space satellites so that it can spot changes across the Earth's surface in real time.
AI-enabled drone teams to speed search and rescue
Researchers at Virginia Tech are working to inject machine learning into search and rescue protocols and optimize autonomous, multi-drone teams to make searches more effective.
AI may read soldiers' intents, anticipate their needs
Brain activity could be harnessed to optimize a performance of a human-machine team, according to an ARL researcher.
DHS seeks better tech for first responders
The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate is looking for new solutions to 12 common challenges.
DOD's milDrive offers personal cloud storage
Defense Department users can now get Dropbox-like storage and file sharing and syncing services for unclassified data from their laptops and mobile devices.
Making AI-based language learning easy as child's play
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to build an automated language acquisition system that learns language the way children do -- extracting meaning from hearing sounds while observing the environment.
FirstNet: Two years in
Two years after an award to AT&T for a nationwide broadband public safety network, work on expanding the infrastructure and increasing the number of devices, apps and APIs designed for responders has been picking up steam.
Tapping security cameras for better algorithm training
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity wants 960 hours of annotated video data to help it train computer vision algorithms for law enforcement and public safety.
As flood risk spreads, prediction tech proves vital
New technologies and data sources are helping officials prepare residents in flood-prone areas ahead of rising waters.
FirstNet partners with medical center for rural emergency response
An agreement between FirstNet and the University of Mississippi Medical Center will help deliver potential life-saving support to rural residents in real time.
Army wants ground-penetrating radar for drones
Mounted on unmanned aerial and land vehicles, the lightweight radar-on-a-chip technology could expand the military's ability to map the shapes, sizes and features of objects in the environment.
Machine learning on the fly
The Real-Time Machine Learning Grand Challenge aims to create processors that can interpret and learn from data in real-time with the energy efficiency of the human brain.
DARPA tackles election security
The Defense research agency is exploring the feasibility of locking down election systems with open-source software and secure hardware.
User-friendly high-performance computing, thanks to MIT Lincoln Lab
Based on lessons learned from the development of the MIT SuperCloud, the Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center developed tools and training to bring HPC capabilities to desktops and laptops.
Digital forensics for large-scale networks
With a new collection of open-source tools and code wrappers, network forensic investigators can capture, selectively analyze and reconstruct files from network traffic. The all-in-one toolkit is free for law enforcement teams in the U.S.
Army looks to sensors, analytics to improve efficiency on bases
The Army wants to incorporate tech solutions usually seen in smart cities at its military installations.
AF Research Lab launches shared classified supercomputing
The first “Shared Above-Secret Department of Defense High Performance Computing Capability” will feature four supercomputers available to government researchers.
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