Research and development

Dale Sisson
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
SES Technical Director

On the gun line at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren: A history of computing advances

For the second installment in this week’s series looking at Dahlgren’s activities, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with the division’s Technical…

Navy

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Federal R&D investments serve as foundation for US becoming AI-ready

Artificial Intelligence

National Science Foundation launches brand new directorate with ambitious goals

Technology

DARPA’s now testing a new method to identify service members at risk of suicide

Defense

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How the art of cybersecurity is advanced by research for the public domain

Cybersecurity

Musurlian, Peter

Energy Department widens the hunt for novel energy technologies

Technology

Federal News Network

Defense innovation bumps up against a Cold War budget system

Defense

FILE - In this June 28, 2019, file photo the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seal is seen during a news conference in Washington. An official at the Department of Homeland Security says he was pressured by agency leaders to suppress details in his intelligence reports that President Donald Trump might find objectionable, including intelligence on Russian interference in the election and the threat posed by white supremacists. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

How Homeland Security plans to put boots on science and get it out the door

Technology

A new way for the Air Force to make sure good ideas don’t get lost in the clouds

Air Force

In this handout image from the U.S. Navy, sailors prepare a CARINA unmanned undersea drone off San Diego, California, April 19, 2021. The U.S. Navy's Mideast-based 5th Fleet said Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, it will launch a new task force that incorporates airborne, sailing and underwater drones after years of maritime attacks linked to ongoing tensions with Iran. (U.S. Navy/Lt. Cmdr. Tony Wright, via AP)

Conflict of interest claim follows Navy employee taking job with bidder

Contracting

New WH task force asking what shared computing, data could do for AI research

Artificial Intelligence

Sammies-recognized USDA engineer extending lives of dams, preventing major disasters

USDA plays a little-recognized role in managing the nation’s dams and Sherry Hunt is a supervisory research engineer who’s led the Agricultural Research…

People

Federal labs consortium director has to manage dozens of agency engineers

It’s one thing to work on your own as an engineer, but leading a team of engineers is something else entirely.

Technology

A new crew takes over leadership of the Federal Laboratory Consortium

Technology

John Eisemann, the new vice chair of the Federal Laboratory Consortium and a technology transfer program manager at the USDA National Wildlife Research Center, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for the second in a four-part series.