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Boston Dynamics to assist in development of disaster response robots
April 16, 2012
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Radio-controlled PakBot robots were used in disaster response to the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster.AP photo The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency intends to award a contract to Boston Dynamics to build humanoid robot systems for top performers in a Pentagon-funded contest to develop robots that could aid in ...
DARPA wants more efficient computing systems
April 16, 2012
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon venture capital arm, is seeking ideas to develop more power-efficient processes in embedded computing systems, according to a request for proposals. Embedded systems are electronic components that control functionality of computer systems. The RFP spotlights that existing computer systems don't process data ...
Renewable energy could fuel Iceland data business boom
April 16, 2012
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Associated Press Iceland's cheap and renewable sources of electricity could give it an edge in the power-intensive business of data transmission and storage, MIT Technology Review reports. The country produces the highest electricity per capita in the world, from renewable sources such as geothermal vents and glacier-fed rivers. Iceland is ...
Defense contractors, DHS mine high school security challenge for recruits
April 16, 2012
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CyberPatriot photo Defense contractors and Homeland Security officials were on the lookout for potential hires at the annual Air Force Association's high school cybersecurity competition, the Los Angeles Times reports. The competition, called CyberPatriot, and held in Oxon Hill, Md., was created in 2008 to encourage students to pursue security ...
Cybersecurity index aims to penetrate the fog of marketing hype
April 4, 2012
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It's impossible to fix something if you can't even gauge that it's broken. It's a classic problem that systems engineers and defense contractors face: they are staring into a fog of elusive threats made worse by marketers trying to make a sale on security hype. Frustrated by this lack of ...
Agencies get down to business with computer games
April 2, 2012
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Last Halloween, while his friends were out reveling, Otavio Good stayed home to design a computer program to reconstruct shredded documents. The military's research arm had issued a call for people to decipher messages that had been torn to bits, much the way someone might destroy evidence of a paper ...
Game Theory
April 1, 2012 Last Halloween, while his friends were out reveling, Otavio Good stayed home to design a computer program to reconstruct shredded documents. The military’s research arm had issued a call for people to decipher messages that had been torn to bits, much the way someone might destroy evidence of a paper ...
Tech Roundup
March 1, 2012 Taking The Lead The Homeland Security Department is taking over a heralded Pentagon project that shared classified intelligence with select military contractors and their communications providers. The new arrangement puts DHS, the civilian agency responsible for facilitating the protection of private critical infrastructure, in charge of communicating with private Internet ...
Humvees, UAVs could create route to Internet in Afghanistan
February 15, 2012
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The Pentagon is looking into how unmanned aerial vehicles and Humvees can be turned into Internet access points and woven into a sprawling wireless network in war zones such as Afghanistan. Called mobile hotspots, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program will tackle the problem of how to bring Internet ...
State Department Eyes Smartphones As Policy Tool
February 8, 2012
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The smartphone's rise in overseas markets is a "key development" that the State Department is watching over the next year, an adviser said Tuesday, signaling the agency's interest in using mobile technology to advance foreign policy goals. The deployment of 3G and 4G mobile networks will enable more people to ...
