SSA seeks virtual assistants to help with boomer retirements
To modernize its customer service operations and ease the workload on an already overtaxed staff, the Social Security Administration wants to implement an off-the-shelf virtual assistant solution.
Hyperconverged infrastructure for field applications
Pivot3’s Intelligent Edge Command and Control solution is a self-contained, modular computing infrastructure to support defense, intelligence and other field operations at the tactical edge.
How hackers can compromise police bodycams
Security holes could give hackers a way to access and modify camera footage and track the location of officers wearing the devices.
Uber taps government, university partners for UberAIR
The Army Research Lab, the University of Texas at Austin and NASA are working with Uber on its flying taxi service.
Big data for a better vacation
The National Park Service wants to tap into location-based data to track visitor-use patterns it can use for improving visitor experience and long-range transportation and infrastructure planning.
Prisons fighting contraband phones get help from courts
Judges in South Carolina and California have ordered wireless carriers to disable nearly 200 contraband cellphones used by inmates.
The dangers of 'deep fakes'
With advanced technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning, manipulated digital media will be easier to create and more difficult to detect.
DISA eyes moving some cyber awareness monitoring to the cloud
Moving some backend services of the Acropolis net monitoring program to the cloud will require blending DOD infrastructure with a commercially hosted virtual private cloud at both the IL-5 and IL-6 levels.
Mueller indictment details hacks on state election systems
The charges describe how two of the Russian conspirators hacked into computers at state offices and an election software supplier to steal voter data and other information.
Government leads the way in crowdsourced security
The adoption of bug-bounty programs in government has increased 125 percent increase year over year, according to a new report.
DARPA digs into the details of practical quantum computing
To speed the technology's development, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is asking for help solving practical and architectural problems.
Can you build a better lie detector?
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity wants new ways to evaluate the accuracy, reliability and utility of credibility assessment tools in real-world situations.
Can AI improve user experience at the VA?
The Department of Veterans wants an artificial intelligence solution to help minimize customer service delays by speeding information retrieval and improving the quality and accuracy of information provided.
DARPA's plan to speed machine learning development
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Learning with Less Labels program aims to reduce the amount of labeled data required to build a machine learning model.
AF eyes augmented reality for aircraft maintenance
The Air Force Research Laboratory wants to move away from printed maintenance instructions and toward projecting scaled visualizations of the task onto the machinery being serviced.
Drone use skyrockets in public safety
The number of public safety agencies using drones has increased by approximately 82 percent in the last year, a new report says.
Man + machine makes for most accurate facial recognition
In a study to determine whether algorithms or people are better at facial recognition, researchers determined that using both a professional identifier and an advanced algorithm produces the most accurate identifications.
Surveillance that spots suspicious behavior
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for technology that uses drones, sensors and algorithms to spot human behaviors that indicate hostile intent.
Predicting the casualties that drone crashes can cause
NASA is asking for risk management and decision-making tools that can help it accurately estimate the deaths and injuries caused by a drone that crashes into a populated area.
Army weighs lifting massive ERP system to the cloud
The Army is making plans to move its web-based enterprise resource planning system to the cloud.
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