New York opens first leg of drone test corridor
An agreement with NASA will support the development of a 50-mile test corridor and a facility to certify the cybersecurity and air worthiness of drones.
Vets prep for careers with virtual job interviews
The Virtual Training Agent for Veterans, or VITA4VETS, helps vets prepare for job interviews by building their professional conversation skills and reducing anxiety.
Sandia app assesses radiation threats
InterSpec integrates many radiation analysis tools and resources into a single, easy-to-use mobile or desktop application that delivers real-time assessments.
VA puts virtual beacons in medical center
Designed to help patients use their smartphones to find their way around the facility, the virtual Bluetooth Low Energy system is managed from the cloud, giving facilities greater wayfinding options.
NYPD ditches Windows phones
The New York Police Department will be replacing its 36,000 Windows phones with iPhones.
How industrial partners can help HPC centers thrive
By partnering with industry, high-performance computing centers can increase the impact of scientific innovations and boost industrial and economic competitiveness.
DARPA wants 'living sensors' for surveillance
The military's research arm wants to replace common sensor elements with marine plants and animals that provide data about their environment through natural behaviors.
A public-service Skynet?
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington are working on a platform that will let drones act as generic movable computing devices capable of communicating with each other and their controller.
USGS advances ShakeAlert earthquake warning system
With $4.9 million in awards to research partners and $1 million in new sensor equipment, the U.S. Geological Survey will improve the speed and reliability of the warnings.
Emotional subtext in tweets may signal health issues
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory analyzed 171 million anonymized tweets from users near military bases to find patterns of opinion and emotion that correlate with medical visits for influenza-like illnesses.
DARPA tunes machine learning to radio signals
By applying machine learning to the radio spectrum, the research agency hopes to give the military situational awareness in the wireless domain.
7 security projects worth watching
Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate is funding development of a number of early-stage security solutions.
NOAA puts GOES-R weather satellite data in the cloud
Provisional data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's newest weather satellite is being shared as part of the agency's Big Data Project.
App taps historical climate data for Texas growers
By comparing current conditions with those of the past 10 years, the Agro-Climate Monitor gives producers a better feel for how this year's weather might affect their crop yields.
A cloud secure enough for classified workloads
A classified-as-a-service offering would give public cloud infrastructure operators a way to offer secure, classified, general-purpose processing to government clients.
NYPD struggles to move crime analysis from Palantir to home-grown system
The data mining firm has declined to give the police department its data in a format it can use for its new system.
Quantum bits: Research partnerships, building an ecosystem
Recent news from the quantum-computing front.
DHS unwraps free virtual training for active shooter incidents
The Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment is a multiplayer, scalable online platform that trains responders -- single agencies or across agencies, jurisdictions or disciplines -- for a coordinated response to active shooter incidents.
DHS wants you to build a better body scanner
Or a better algorithm, at least. A new challenge project aims to accurately assess passenger body scans for threats, cutting down on false positives and speeding up airport security lines.
Popcorn Linux OS gives processors a common language
Developed by engineering researchers at Virginia Tech with support from the Office of Naval Research, Popcorn Linux may make it easier to upgrade and maintain complex, multicore systems.
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