Emerging Tech
GSA’s 10x Offers Seed Funding To Develop Feds’ Tech Ideas
The four-phase program is looking to test, fund and build federal employees’ ideas for using tech to improve their agencies.
Digital Government
Should Government Agencies Move Out of Capital Cities?
North Carolina may relocate its Division of Motor Vehicles from Raleigh to boost lagging Rocky Mount. Can this be a national model for decentralizing power?
Emerging Tech
Kamala Harris's $15 Million Proposal to Fix Local Government Tech
The 2020 presidential candidate introduced a bill to help local governments modernize their digital services. Is this the lifeline cities need?
Emerging Tech
Energy Aims to Launch America’s First Exascale Supercomputer by 2021
Insiders say the first-of-its-kind machine will accelerate innovation and discovery across the health, defense and climate sectors—and beyond.
Emerging Tech
Silicon Valley Mayor to Feds: ‘Get Out of the Way’ of Innovation
The federal government could do more to promote innovation at the state and local levels by doing less, according to San Jose’s mayor.
Modernization
GSA Chief: Leadership Must Protect Workforce to Drive Innovation
Things can go wrong when employees are taking risks. That's where senior officials step up, GSA’s Emily Murphy said.
Emerging Tech
The Army Will Need Traditional Vendors’ Help Putting Startup Tech to Use
The Army is all in on innovative startups, but it will likely rely on tried and true contractors to get the tech over the finish line, Lt. Gen. Eric Wesley told SXSW.
Digital Government
A Startup Wants to Turn Your City’s Trash Into a Heap of Big Data
One company hopes to create an “Internet of Garbage,” with the promise to bring better logistics to municipal waste.
Artificial Intelligence
Inside the Pentagon's Big Plans to Develop Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
The defense research agency has a list of research areas and a nimble contracting process to help achieve its vision.
Emerging Tech
How a Library Embraced New Technology and Helped Build a Prosthetic Hand
The public library in a small Texas town used an assessment tool that helped officials eventually upgrade equipment—including buying a 3D printer. One community member used it to make a prosthesis.
Emerging Tech
The Servant Economy
Ten years after Uber inaugurated a new era for Silicon Valley, we checked back in on 105 on-demand businesses.
Emerging Tech
We’ll Soon Learn Whether You Can Post 3D-Gun Plans Online
A proposed export-rules change has snagged over the question: is publishing such designs a boon to U.S. business or foreign terrorists?
Digital Government
How Data Analytics Could Help the Government Reduce Traffic Deaths
A D.C.-based startup with roots in the insurance market is using machine learning to predict the probability of car crashes on just about any stretch of road.
Digital Government
Census’ Big Data Innovation Program Infects HHS with Promising Results
Officials at Health and Human Services took an idea from their colleagues at Census to use big data and public-private collaboration to design systems that can save lives.
Artificial Intelligence
8 Things Governments Can Do to Use Disruptive Technology Better
Making sure officials know what things like artificial intelligence do is a good starting point, according to a new report.
Emerging Tech
Are America’s Companies Ready to Fight Russia & China? New Study Aims to Find Out.
Reagan Institute panel sets out to identify the ‘National Security Innovation Base’ from workforce skills to technologies, labs, companies and academia.
Digital Government
How Much Leisure Time Do the Happiest People Have?
Too little, and people tend to get stressed. Too much, and people tend to feel idle.
Emerging Tech
Why Local Governments Aren’t All Aboard the Blockchain Train
From high costs of implementation to more pressing regulatory concerns, current barriers to entry make the technology difficult to implement.
Artificial Intelligence
DARPA Wants AI to Tell You When It's Dumb
In high-stakes situations, you don’t want tech that doesn’t know what it’s doing.
Ideas
Government’s Growing Problem: Paying Its Technical Debt
Could automation help chip away at the technical debt agencies have accrued?
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