Technology

The Air Force Is Making an App That Basically Does What a General Does

The nascent app aims to generate options, recommendations, and mission orders.

  • Patrick Tucker

Hypersonic Missile Fails Test-Launch From B-52 Bomber

The Air Force called the ARRW failure “a setback.”

  • Marcus Weisgerber

GovExec Daily: What Does the Pentagon Know About UFOs?

Nextgov's Brandi Vincent joins the podcast to discuss her podcast investigation into the Defense Department's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.

  • Ross Gianfortune and Adam Butler

Electric Cars, Smart Refrigerators Pose Cyber Risk To US Utilities, GAO Finds

The risks aren’t well understood by researchers, in part because of local and state control of electrical utilities.

  • Patrick Tucker

The U.S. Just Set Ambitious Offshore Wind Power Targets – What Will It Take to Meet Them?

To increase renewable energy use, the Biden administration wants the U.S. to go from seven offshore wind turbines today to enough to power 10 million homes within a decade.

  • Erin Baker and Matthew Lackner, The Conversation

A Marine Logistics Base May Be the Warehouse of the Future

Virginia Tech researchers aim to use 5G networks to track items as they come and go.

  • Patrick Tucker

Senators Offer to Let NSA Hunt Cyber Actors Inside the US

After SolarWinds hack, Gen. Nakasone seeks some sort of a fix for the cybersecurity ‘blind spot’ against Russia, China, but others cite privacy concerns in potential expanded authorities.

  • Patrick Tucker

GovExec Daily: The NIH Director Talks Pandemic and Workforce Morale

Dr. Francis Collins speaks to GovExec's Courtney Bublé about his agency's role in fighting COVID-19.

  • Ross Gianfortune and Adam Butler

Pentagon Picks Lockheed, Northrop-Raytheon Team to Develop Missile Interceptors

Officials reject a bid by Boeing, which builds the current generation of missile interceptors.

  • Marcus Weisgerber

UK Confirms Plans to Add F-35s, But Won’t Commit to Original Goal

Officials have promised to buy 48, are thinking about buying more, but wouldn’t say whether the 138-plane vision will ever be realized.

  • Marcus Weisgerber

Drones Could One Day Make Up 40% of a Carrier Air Wing, Navy Says

The department’s new unmanned plan directs focus not just on drones but on their “enabling technologies.”

  • Patrick Tucker

Machine Learning System Predicts Severe COVID-19

An advanced machine learning system can accurately predict the risk of a patient's COVID-19 advancing to severe disease or death, say researchers.

  • Futurity

Why the Pandemic Experts Failed

We’re still thinking about pandemic data in the wrong ways.

  • Alexis C. Madrigal and Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
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Who Would Kidnap a Space Telescope?

‘‘We hope pirates don’t take it,” one astrophysicist said.

  • Marina Koren, The Atlantic

GovExec Daily: Fraud, SBA and Technology

Gary Shiffman joins the show to discuss how changes in legislation affect Small Business Administration loan programs.

  • Ross Gianfortune and Adam Butler

Space Force Sounds like a Joke Thanks to Pop Culture – that Could Be a Problem for An Important Military Branch

Science fiction has often had an inspirational and positive relationship with space endeavors. But the new Space Force is struggling with a pop culture public relations problem.

  • Wendy Whitman Cobb, The Conversation

Viewpoint: The Government Needs to Find Big Tech a New Business Model

Facebook and Google want to keep playing three roles: essential infrastructure, publisher, and targeted-ad mogul. That’s impossible.

  • Zephyr Teachout, The Atlantic

The Military Wants To Produce Water From Air. Here’s the Science Behind It

The key is the right combination of elements in porous crystal structures, and the AI-powered search is on.

  • Patrick Tucker

The U.S. Spent $2.2 Million on a Cybersecurity System That Wasn’t Implemented — and Might Have Stopped a Major Hack

The software company SolarWinds unwittingly allowed hackers’ code into thousands of federal computers. A cybersecurity system called in-toto, which the government paid to develop but never required, might have protected against this.

  • Jack Gillum and Peter Elkind , ProPublica

GovExec Daily: Records Transfer and the Trump Administration

Courtney Bublé joins the show to discuss the concerns about the Trump administration's records management.

  • Ross Gianfortune and Adam Butler

The Remote-Work Revolution Will Be Bigger Than We Think

The past year has offered a glimpse of the nowhere-everywhere future of work.

  • Derek Thompson, The Atlantic