The latest on government legislation, pilot projects and research to advance distributed ledger technology.
The National Science Foundation is investing millions in research to build a practical quantum computer.
Customs and Border Protection will begin testing blockchain to verify certificates of origin.
These 36 projects at the federal, state and local levels show just how transformative government IT can be.
Blockchain can increase the trustworthiness of real-time energy transactions without adding prohibitive costs, latency, interoperability or scale issues.
Agencies at every level -- local, state and federal -- are increasingly using AI and machine learning to better understand data and make back-office tasks more efficient.
A new report urges researchers to focus less on automated combat and more on defensive machine learning.
More airports will implement 3D baggage scanning and credential authentication technologies in the coming year, the Transportation Security Administration said.
The Army Research Lab, the University of Texas at Austin and NASA are working with Uber on its flying taxi service.
Army Research Laboratory scientists are teaching robots to learn how to navigate environmental features following examples provided by humans.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is running a pilot that uses blockchain to secure health record data and give the data lifecycle far more transparency.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's SafeDocs program aims to devise a dramatically better way to detect and reject untrustworthy data.
Data on household electricity consumption could help transit agencies predict morning traffic congestion, new research suggests.
After a successful two-county test during the May primary election, the West Virginia secretary of state is planning to expand the effort in November.