AF tests mixed-reality glasses for flight-line maintenance
Mixed-reality glasses are helping airframe maintenance staff with the Air Force’s 7th Bomb Wing improve efficiency by replacing tablets and large manuals.
Public-safety drone use soars as White House mulls ban for federal agencies
While a planned executive order would ban federal agencies from buying or using foreign-made drones, state and local public safety agencies are becoming increasingly dependent on them.
Blockchain protects IP, tracks tires, supports coronavirus response
Distributed ledger technology is being deployed to defend against counterfeit goods crossing the border, track the tires used on military vehicles and aircraft and support coronavirus response efforts.
DOE turns to AI to transform science
The Department of Energy announced plans to invest up to $40 million to research how artificial intelligence and machine learning can spur transformative advances across scientific disciplines.
Autonomous vehicles can be fooled to ‘see’ nonexistent obstacles
By strategically spoofing LiDAR sensor signals, attackers can fool a vehicle’s LiDAR-based perception system into “seeing” an obstacle that’s not really there.
Practical planning for a quantum future
It’s not too soon for agencies to begin preparing for quantum computing’s impact on government security, according to a new report.
Sensing atmospheric energy to identify Earth-bound disturbances
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s AtmoSense program aims to better understand how energy travels from the ground to the ionosphere. The hope is that the atmosphere could be used as a sensor to identify natural disturbances.
NIST tests law-enforcement's phone-hacking tools
Researchers with the National Institute of Standards and Technology have evaluated the methods investigators use to access data on damaged or locked phones.
Don’t fear a ‘robot apocalypse’ -- tomorrow’s digital jobs will be more satisfying and higher-paid
Robot-proof jobs will require greater interaction with technology, leading to higher pay and career satisfaction.
AI pulls ahead in recidivism prediction
A new study finds that risk assessment tools are significantly better than humans at interpreting the complexity and noisy data of the criminal justice system.
Library of Congress checks out 3D printing
A LOC working group is learning to use 3D photogrammetry to build digital models of artifacts held in the Library’s collections.
Cutting communications overhead for distributed learning apps
Scientists at the Army Research Lab have shown that distributed deep learning algorithms can deliver the same performance as algorithms that run at a single, centralized location.
Army plans AR headset rollout
The Integrated Visual Augmentation System can run augmented reality training, assess soldiers’ biometrics and performance and connect to a warfighter’s weapon sensor.
DARPA's Habitus to give outsiders an insider's view
The program aims to develop models of the implicit, detailed, collective understanding local residents have of how cultural systems work.
Improving situational awareness for responders
The Haptic Interfaces for Public Safety Challenge generated a number of innovations that will give responders who can't see or hear when they're battling fires more information about their environment.
If you could build an Air Force base from scratch…
AFWERX's Base of the Future showcase will take advantage of the nearly wholesale rebuilding of Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida.
DC Water taps AI for sewer line assessments
Pipe Sleuth classifies sewer defects from videos, delivering s a consistent, more accurate view of what’s happening in the water infrastructure running under the nation’s capital.
RPA Playbook: DigitalGov's guide to the care and feeding of automated programs
The playbook describes best practices, lessons learned and proven strategies for federal robotic process automation programs.
AI weather eye keeps Alaska pilots safe
The algorithm uses a web camera’s image feed to automatically determine an area’s visibility for pilots.
Cities Will Save Democracy, but Only If We Measure It
COMMENTARY | Cities have become the gatekeepers of democracy. Creating a new index to measure democracy in cities may help save the institution globally.
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