Technology

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $5 million grant to a team led by Indiana University to develop analytics technology that will support high-volume and dynamic data across the cyberinfrastructure. NSF said the project aims to leverage high-performance computing and the commercial Apache Big Data Stack to design and deploy a Middleware for Data-Intensive Analytics and …

One of the 2014 GCN Award winners is an open source mobile application vetting tool that both the National Institute of Standards and Technology and George Mason University developed for the Defense Department, GCN reported Tuesday. Government and commercial users use AppVet to expedite the app testing and risk assessment process before deployment, …

The U.S. Coast Guard has kicked off a market research initiative to assess how maritime first responders and Department of Homeland Security components could use small unmanned aerial vehicles and airborne sensors. A request for information posted Friday says the agency’s research and development center plans to conduct a series of flight tests …

Michael Wehner, a senior staff scientist at the Energy Department‘s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory computational research division, has discussed the laboratory’s work to produce large volumes of weather simulation data in an interview with Information Week published Friday. William Jackson writes climate researchers at the Berkeley lab have generated more than 400 terabytes of modeling …

The U.S. Air Force participates in a combat training event designed to hone service members’ teamwork skills and strategies against cyberspace and aerial threats. USAF said Thursday Red Flag exercises are held at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada and brings together air, space and cyber crews from the U.S. …

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will award $50,000 in total for the winning participants to a prize challenge on automatic speech recognition software for single-microphone and multimicrophone recordings. IARPA said the Automatic Speech In Reverberant Environments Challenge seeks approaches that will enable consistent ASR performance in different acoustic environments and conditions. The agency will post on the ASpIRE challenge website …

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency research partner SRI International has delivered the Advanced Scanning Optical Microscope to the Naval Surface Warfare Center‘s Crane division to aid forensic analysis of integrated circuits and other microelectronics. DARPA said Tuesday the technology supports its Integrity and Reliability of Integrated Circuits program, which aims to detect …

The Defense Department wants to adopt strategies to deter cyber attacks by communicating to the world the U.S. government’s thought process in cybersecurity, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Jared Serbu writes that is developing the deterrence strategy around four pillars such as transparency, response strategy, resiliency and denial of attacks. Eric …

Andy Ozment, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security‘s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, says federal agencies are starting to fully acknowledge the importance of cybersecurity and cyber-risk management, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Jason Miller writes that Ozment’s office plans to establish a scorecard to measure the progress of federal cybersecurity …

The Office of Naval Research has developed technology that works to utilize sensors for unmanned surface vehicles to swarm enemy vessels as they protect or escort U.S. Navy ships. ONR said Sunday that the service tested the Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing system in a demonstration, where 13 autonomous or remotely controlled USVs swarmed and …