Marines find 'best and brightest' via geolocation
Marine Corps recruiters leverage data analytics and geolocation technologies to make the finding the best and the brightest faster, more accurate and more efficient.
VA forecasts $3.5M in early energy savings from new system
Environmental Management System collects and reports 3,000 energy data points every 10 seconds, including main electrical and water services.
NYPD, Microsoft unveil all-seeing downtown surveillance system
The Domain Awareness System analyzes data from thousands of cameras, sensors and crime databases in real time, delivering a comprehensive view of threats and activity.
4 major cities launch shared data portal
Cities.data.gov features data sets from Chicago, Seattle, New York and San Francisco.
License plate scanners: Useful tools, but what about all that data?
The systems, which can capture up to thousands of images per hour, are increasingly popular with police but are raising privacy conerns.
Mass. health authority uses ID software to prevent fraud
The Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector Authority is using LexisNexis identity management software to verify the residency information of people participating in the exchange.
41 percent of public sector can't handle data deluge, survey finds
Oracle's survey also finds a lot of C, D and F grades on how well public and private organizations handle their data.
Advanced radar would 'see' through jungle to catch drug smugglers
The project is one of many at the U.S. Army's SouthCom that combines IT expertise from multiple agencies, including foreign ones, to support forces in the field.
Analytics platform helps agencies fight cyber crime
SAS Security Intelligence platform uses a common infrastructure to detect and prevent threats across government agencies and industry.
Big data system being tailored for feds
Lockheed Martin and Cleversafe are developing a federal version of the Dispersed Compute Storage solution, which combines Hadoop MapReduce and Cleversafe's dsNet to handle massive computation and storage requirements.
New commission aims to help government tap into big data
Group's leaders say innovation in using data is key to boosting U.S. competitiveness.
Key technologies in digital strategy have one thing in common
The innovative technologies in the administration's "anywhere, anytime, any device" digital strategy will ride on the cloud, a former federal CIO says.
Navy crowdsourcing tool more than just a game
The Navy is using a computer game to crowdsource ideas to help make our fighting forces more efficient -- and less costly.
USASpending takes big data to the cloud
The General Services Administration's USASpending.gov website is using the GCE Big Data and Analytics Cloud for storing and managing large volumes of data.
Marine Corps Exchanges using analytics to improve merchandise planning
The MCX will use SAS to perform cluster analyses, which will help it gain better insight into the unique and changing needs of the local population.
Georgia fights tax fraud with identity-based filters
Georgia is using the LexisNexis Tax Refund Investigative Solution in a pilot program to mitigate identity fraud and has awarded the company a contract to continue the effort.
DARPA wants gamers to design medical training software
DARPA is looking at the gaming industry to help it design medical training and education software for use on mobile devices.
Rapid Refresh sharpens NOAA's weather forecasts
New software for modeling complex weather patterns lets the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration update near-term forecasts hourly, with greater precision.
Energy project looks to tame supercomputing's tsunami of data
A new facility at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory will develop tools to extract knowledge from petabytes of data and help researchers use their time more efficiently.
Keys to big data in the brain, not the computer, former NSA exec says
Visualization and analytics will require cultural anthropologists and social scientists to help organizations understand how humans process information.
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