Robots are coming closer and closer to performing life saving duties. But the Defense Department's Advance Research Project Agency is now putting up a $2 million prize to whomever can help push the ...
Innovation in Government: Creating VA's Innovation Initiative
This is the third in a series of profiles of innovative leaders in government based on interviews for the book "Paths to Making a Difference: Leading in Government" by Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. ...
Feds @ Work: OSTP's Chris Vein Innovates Innovation Itself
Chris Vein works for two prominent Obama administration officials who are always in the limelight. Consequently Vein doesn't get a lot of publicity. If you do a search on his name, the "news" results ...
How 8 Enthusiasts Beat 9,000 Teams To Solve DARPA's 'Shredder' Challenge
Otavio Good, leader of the San Francisco-based team that won the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Shredder Challenge earlier this month, doesn't just do computer programming.
"I live ...
Crowd-Sourcing Yields Ingenious Solutions for Air Force Research Lab
When scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) were tasked with creating a way to stop a fleeing vehicle moving at high speed, they turned to crowd-sourcing for a solution. What they got ...
Will Innovation Offset Political Gridlock? Congressman Connolly, IT Leaders Offer Outlook
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) predicted the chances that Congress will put together anything longer lasting that a string of continuing resolutions after the current continuing funding resolution ...
Government Challenge Programs Foster New Wave Of Low Cost Innovations
A program begun on a shoe string a year ago to help federal agencies tap a broader universe of creative ideas to solve some of the government's toughest challenges has spawned a surprising, if not ...
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