4 questions to help gauge AI readiness
Getting the most from artificial intelligence requires data management strategies that make information secure and shareable.
Protect the border with tech, Hurd says
Sensor technologies and data analysis could provide a common picture of threats and activity along the 2,000-mile border.
Data-driven space exploration
Organizations pursuing missions in space need quick access to their data so they can support mission-critical systems, ongoing software development and analytics applications.
DIA preps for next-gen data environment
The Machine-Assisted Analytic Rapid-Repository System will leverage advances in cloud computing with artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Utah to roll out connected vehicle data platform
The system will monitor and share data in real-time to enhance safety and improve traffic flow.
Simulation tool helps Orlando deliver on environmental goals
The Siemens City Performance Tool collects about up to 400 data points related to transportation, energy use and existing buildings and uses that information to simulate the economic and environmental impacts of investing in a range of technologies.
Rise of the citizen data scientist
New tools give end users the ability to develop their own use-cases for AI-driven analytics.
How predicting floods is like catching a baseball
Rather than trying to reproduce the complex calculations across the environmental factors involved in a flood event, researchers built a program that rapidly predicts the impacts of coastal flooding.
Early-warning system for chemical threats
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is testing its ChemSigma initiative, a pilot study to provide initial data and insights into how such real-time chemical sensor networks would function.
NOAA launches coastal flooding dashboard
The Coastal Inundation Dashboard combines data from 200 coastal water-level stations into one web-based tool to help local decision-makers get real time information on an approaching storms as well as insights into longer-term risks like high-tide flooding and sea-level rise.
Has facial recognition outpaced existing law?
The use of facial-recognition technology by law enforcement agencies may have outpaced the regulations that govern it, lawmakers suggest.
In-Q-Tel taps AI firm for harnessing unstructured data
Forge.AI uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to turn unstructured information into machine-readable data so it can be ingested by analytical systems in real time.
Big tech surveillance could damage democracy
Big tech has become competitive field of mass intelligence gathering that is ripe for abuses so long as it remains largely unregulated.
4 ways government program managers can solve the fraud Catch-22
Data-driven insights help agencies balance ensuring a program's integrity even when there are limited resources to investigate or fix identified problems.
Can data-rich war games improve decisions?
The cloud-based, multiplayer game analyzes decision-making behaviors from choices made in thousands of games along with basic demographic information about participants.
Putting the Earth's weather data in the cloud
As the amount high-quality weather data increases, NOAA is looking at a cloud-based exchange for global weather information.
Mining government data while protecting privacy
A pilot program showed how agencies could conduct privacy-protecting cross-agency data analysis of personal information by secure multiparty computation.
Solving the mobility puzzle: Portland tests analysis tool based on cellphone data
The Replica technology takes de-identified location data from cellphones and pulls it into a dashboard that shows how, when, where and why people actually move around the city.
Is banning surveillance tech worth it?
San Francisco's ban on facial-recognition puts the city at risk of not only falling behind on technological innovation, but returning digital workflows to manual processes, experts say.
Why Missouri's the last holdout on a statewide Rx monitoring program
Ongoing fears about privacy violations have left Missouri without a statewide prescription drug monitoring program, forcing its cities, neighboring states and the federal government to create a patchwork of incomplete workarounds.
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