Postal Service turns to computer vision AI, edge computing to improve delivery
New systems deployed at 195 mail processing centers nationwide.
Baltimore takes a data-driven approach to targeting gun trafficking
The city's Gun Trafficking Intelligence Platform connects purchase data, gun recoveries and ballistics reports to better understand the ecosystem of illegal firearms.
California connects datasets to show how mental health services can reduce arrests
The program is expanding to include employment, education data to more accurately maps the impact mental health care can have.
Smarter sensors promise cities better parking management
Sidewalk Labs' new low-infrastructure solution offers easy connectivity to monitor urban parking, space by space.
Sheriff’s office expands data, video options with digital evidence system
A cloud-based digital evidence management system has enabled the Galveston, Texas, Sheriff’s Office to improve data collection, storage and sharing.
How Utah secures shared data
To combat the rising number of cyberattacks, Utah’s Department of Technology Services is encrypting the data it shares internally and externally with other agencies and private entities.
How hot is it? Communities collect heat data
About 25 cities this summer will work with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to collect data to identify neighborhoods with extreme heat.
Shared tactics between emergency response and IT defense
The IT security team and the Office of Emergency Management in Arapahoe County, Colo., are working together to improve cybersecurity incident response.
VR scenarios help DHS research arrest-related fatalities
A use-of-force simulation experiment used virtual reality to study factors that might help reduce deadly encounters between law enforcement officers and civilians.
NASA runs on data
Data is at core of the space agency’s digital transformation efforts, and key to advancing everything NASA does, the agency’s chief data officer says.
5G infrastructure faces foundational threats
Open policies and standards, a protected supply chain and a secure systems architecture can help limit vulnerabilities in 5G networks, according to a new government report.
Securing pandemic relief programs from fraud
Fraudulent and improper payments have soared during the pandemic, prompting agencies to investigate new and more sophisticated detection methods.
Oklahoma cuts phishing threats with cloud-based email gateway
A cloud-based secure email gateway has helped the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services decrease the threat from inbound malware messages.
Energy labs build digital twin for modeling traffic congestion relief, energy savings
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and National Renewable Energy Laboratory have partnered with Chattanooga on the use of simulations to determine controls that would deliver energy efficiency while also optimizing drivers’ travel time, speed and safety.
Agencies struggle to find the right AI solutions
Chatbots and robotic process automation can help agencies rack up quicker wins than more complex deployments of artificial intelligence, but they shouldn’t distract from IT modernization.
Integrating open data, open source, cloud drives efficiency
Better integration of three of the federal government’s main strategies -- use of cloud, open source software and open data – would collectively benefit their progress, a new report found.
NLM Pillbox put out to pasture
The National Library of Medicine retired its Pillbox program earlier this year after about a decade of providing a quick way for the public, medical workers and law enforcement to identify a pill.
Human-AI teaming for DC-based emergency response
Members of Montgomery County, Md.’s Community Emergency Response Team are training an artificial intelligence-based system to find COVID-related items in Twitter posts that public safety officials should know about.
Data matching flags suspicious unemployment claims
The National Association of State Workforce Agencies’ Integrity Data Hub has prevented about $243 million in improper unemployment insurance payments.
When artificial intelligence learns to attack us
“We risk a future of AI systems hacking other AI systems, with humans being little more than collateral damage,” cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier writes.
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