Marine Corps runs on data
The success of almost any enterprise, especially a logistics enterprise, hinges on its ability to ingest, process, disseminate and act on timely data, Presidential Innovation Fellow Adam Drake says.
It's time for consensus on facial recognition in law enforcement
Like fingerprint identification technology, facial recognition has the potential to significantly improve the effectiveness and efficiency of police investigations.
Uber launches tool to track traffic speeds
The new Uber Movement Speeds provides street-level traffic in hourly increments for New York, Seattle and Cincinnati, London and Nairobi.
How agencies can control access to IoT data
Dynamic authorization with attribute-based access control allows agencies to securely share IoT data by only allowing authorized users access to sensitive data under the right conditions.
Innovation: More than following the data
Data is critical to spurring practical innovation at agencies, but deriving real intelligence requires context and focus, experts say.
Cloud powers survey of industrial seismic activity
Seismologists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are using cloud computing to conduct a continent-scale survey for seismic signatures of industrial activity, cutting the time it took to complete the work from days to hour.
Deep learning and the future of tax
Machine learning can improve the tax process if it is trained on human-verified historical data, enables personalized returns and provides transparency into how its algorithms make decisions.
Keeping the lights on when the grid takes a hit
The open-source Severe Contingency Solver software can help government agencies better plan for power outages caused by extreme events.
Geospatial intelligence gets SMART
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity wants a fully automated way to fuse and process the images and spectral data coming from space satellites so that it can spot changes across the Earth's surface in real time.
Chicago’s inspector general finds the city’s gang database is riddled with errors
The database has been accessed more than 1 million times, including some 32,000 times by immigration officials. Police said they will fix the database but not erase it.
NYPD's machine-learning software spots crime patterns
Patternizr's pattern-recognizing algorithms are helping the New York City Police Department find relationships among crime types with greater efficiency and less bias.
Putting government data to work with APIs
In the nearly 20 years since they first appeared, application programming interfaces have made it easy for government agencies to share data.
Better results from better data
Data and processes standardized across government will drive better decisions and save money, GSA's Jessica Salmoiraghi says.
Augmented analytics: Democratizing data analysis
By automating data preparation and the discovery and sharing of insights, augmented analytics helps users more easily interact with data.
DHS seeks better tech for first responders
The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate is looking for new solutions to 12 common challenges.
5 steps to accelerating insights with predictive analytics
Optimizing predictive analytics can lead to better decision-making, which can impact everything from troops in theater to disaster response.
Can a digital 'card catalog' solve government data woes?
A search and discovery environment for data and code can show how an agency's information is connected and grouped within projects or departments.
Tapping security cameras for better algorithm training
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity wants 960 hours of annotated video data to help it train computer vision algorithms for law enforcement and public safety.
How tech helps stretch asset maintenance talent
An advanced enterprise asset management solution with built-in analytics and artificial intelligence is a more effective way to help overcome the shortage of skilled technicians.
Groups oppose states tracking contractor costs with keystroke monitoring
Tech and government advocacy groups are urging states to reject proposed legislation requiring keystroke-level oversight in service of greater billing transparency.
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