DOD enlisting AR microscopes to spot cancer
The Defense Innovation Unit is partnering with Google Cloud to use machine learning and augmented reality to speed and improve the accuracy of cancer diagnoses.
Automated analytics for the tactical edge
To help soldiers quickly make sound decisions based on local information, the Special Operations Command is looking for technologies to speed the delivery of real-time analytics to warfighters in the field.
AF looks to expand 5G to 20 more bases
The Air Force looking for companies interested in leasing space to install additional infrastructure to support military and community cellular users at 20 installations ranging from Arizona up to North Dakota.
Blockchain as a COVID remedy
Distributed ledger technology has been proposed as a cure for pandemic related issues, including supply chain management, funds distribution, absentee voting and social distancing.
White House announces $1B in funding for AI, quantum research centers
The National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy will be investing over more than $1 billion over five years to build 12 new artificial intelligence and quantum information science research institutes, the White House announced.
AI defends supercomputers from bitcoin miners
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed an artificial intelligence system that can detect malicious codes that hijack supercomputers for illicit applications such as cryptocurrency mining.
NIST details cloud forensic challenges
A new publication from National Institute of Standards and Technology’s aims to help the cloud computing community understand the issues facing digital forensics so it can assist in developing technologies and standards to mitigate those challenges.
FirstNet gets new leadership
Robert Tipton "Tip" Osterthaler will chair the 15-member First Responder Network Authority Board.
Schooling machine learning to identify fish
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants to leverage machine learning improve its ability to verify marine species.
NYC transit agency wants iPhone Face ID to handle masks
New York City’s transit agency is asking Apple to improve its facial recognition algorithm so that bus and subway passengers don’t have to remove their masks to unlock their phones and potentially spread COVID-19.
Automating breathalyzer tests to reduce in-person contact
As people social distance to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, police are finding tools to help them enforce the law and practice social distancing.
DHS, DISA look to clouds for FOIA management
Both the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Information Systems Agency are considering cloud-based systems that will help them improve the way they manage Freedom of Information Act requests.
Conversational AI eases soldier-robot teaming
The Army Research Laboratory is working on bi-directional conversational technology that will make it easier for soldiers to team with autonomous systems.
Facial recognition retools for masked faces
To help developers improve the accuracy of facial recognition systems on people wearing masks, the National Institute of Standards and Technology published evaluation data on 89 commercial algorithms developed before the pandemic.
Shared infrastructure powers federal COVID research
The COVID-19 Insights Partnership creates a framework for the Departments of Health and Human Services and Veterans Affairs to take advantage of the high performance computing and artificial intelligence resources at the Department of Energy to conduct cutting-edge COVID-19 research.
Election admins vulnerable to email attacks
More than half of election administrators have only rudimentary or non-standard technologies to protect themselves from phishing, and some are still running vulnerable Exim mail servers known to have been used by threat actors linked to the Russian military, a new report says.
NIST again narrows post-quantum encryption algorithm candidates
National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected a final group of 15 algorithms that will form the core of the first post-quantum cryptography standard.
States sign on for automated security pilot
Arizona, Louisiana, Massachusetts and Texas are working with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory on a pilot project to test automated threat response.
Track state policies on pandemic response
To help state public health policy-makers better manage pandemic response, the Kaiser Family Foundation offers a data tool that regularly updates states’ coronavirus policy actions.
State Department sees RPA as path to help desk efficiency
As it modernizes and consolidates its 19 help desks, the State Department wants to automate routine processes to cut down on the time-consuming, manual, redundant tasks assigned to help desk staff.
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