Emerging Tech
ICE Seeks Tech To Track Electronic Devices—Even Through Time
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is soliciting for a cloud-based system that can geolocate devices using multiple sources, including apps.
Artificial Intelligence
The Newest AI-Enabled Weapon: ‘Deep-Faking’ Photos of the Earth
Step 1: Use AI to make undetectable changes to outdoor photos. Step 2: release them into the open-source world and enjoy the chaos.
Emerging Tech
DARPA Wants Tools to Reimagine Underground Worlds in 3D
The agency is looking for commercial tech to map subterranean environments.
Digital Government
GSA, NGA Expand Space-Based Data Offerings
Agencies now have more options when purchasing geospatial data and analytics off GSA’s IT Schedule 70.
Digital Government
State Integration of GIS Into Elections Is Slow Going
The scattered nature of voter information is the biggest hurdle, but geospatial data can mean the difference between a voter receiving the proper ballot.
Ideas
Apple’s Empty Grandstanding About Privacy
The company enables the surveillance that supposedly offends its values.
Emerging Tech
Will Space Force Boost Already-Rising Spending on Satellites?
Defense execs see increased sales as Pentagon upgrades orbiting gear to fend off attacks.
Emerging Tech
L.A. Joins the Growing Battle Over Location Data
Los Angeles is taking the Weather Channel to court over its treatment of app users’ location data. Expect that to be one of many such lawsuits in 2019.
Cybersecurity
Senators Call For FCC Investigation of Phone Companies Selling Location Data
Your telecom company knows where you are—and it may be selling that information.
Emerging Tech
New Facebook Patent Predicts Your Location Before You Get There
It's like location tracking...but in the future.
Emerging Tech
Your Google Data Could Pinpoint Where You Got Food Poisoning
Your search history reveals a lot.
Emerging Tech
DHS Funds Airport Navigation App that Guides You from Check-in to Gate
It also allows federal agencies to send messages to passengers in real time.
Digital Government
How One Company Aims to Model the World—and All Its Activity—in the Cloud
Descartes Labs is building a platform to let the Pentagon analyze all the geospatial intelligence, all the time.
Artificial Intelligence
3 Ways Intelligence Agencies Are Using AI
The intelligence community is using artificial intelligence to help manage the exponential increase of data.
Digital Government
$600 Million Satellite Imagery Contract Shifts from One Intel Agency to Another
Management of the EnhancedView commercial satellite imagery contract shifted from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to the National Reconnaissance Office.
Digital Government
Gaming and GIS: Working with a Virtual World
Tech pros searching for a GIS gig, look no further.
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