Soldiers might be able to ditch awkward goggles or helmets to access data while in the battlefield in favor of virtual reality contact lenses.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to enhance soldiers’ vision with virtual reality contact lenses, according to Federal Computer Week. The technology involves contact lenses with built-in systems that would allow soldiers to focus on distant targets and overlay their vision with tactical information. Keep reading →
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 it,” he told AOL Government in a telephone interview. Keep reading →
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s “Shredder Challenge” could be called the world’s ultimate jigsaw puzzle contest. But it was serious business for the nearly 9,000 teams of problem solvers from all over the world who entered the competition after DARPA officials launched it in late October.
In the Shredder Challenge competitors attempted to reconstruct machine-shredded documents in increasingly difficult stages to claim DARPA’s $50,000 prize. The challenge comprised five separate puzzles in which the number of documents, the content of the documents and the technique employed to shred the documents varied to make the challenge progressively more difficult. Keep reading →
The government has already tapped hidden pockets of innovation throughout the country to solve its greatest problems and can continue to do so through the open government movement, Aneesh Chopra said today at a conference on federal technology and innovation.
“This is an exciting time to be an innovator in America,” the U.S. Chief Technology Officer said during his presentation at Warner Theater in Washington, D.C. “There is now a global movement afoot. It’s about tapping into the entrepreneurial spirit of our people to solve the challenges of our day.” Keep reading →