Latest "data" stories

US Army chief information officer will depart in coming weeks

CIO Raj Iyer announced his departure Jan. 4 on LinkedIn, noting his job was "complete."

By Colin Demarest and Davis Winkie

3 weeks ago

Pentagon wants competition within $9B Joint Warfighting Cloud contract

The Pentagon on Dec. 7 picked Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle for the highly anticipated cloud computing deal.

By Colin Demarest

7 weeks ago

Census Bureau chief defends ‘differential privacy’ tool

Differential privacy algorithms add intentional errors to data to obscure the identity of any given participant.

9 weeks ago

Keeping the human in the OODA Loop

The task of evaluating multiple and disparate datasets is put on analysts and decision makers using tools for visualization.

By Gary Olson

3 months ago

Pentagon’s Project Maven transition stymied by Congress, official says

Project Maven is being divvied up amid a concerted Pentagon push to study, test and more effectively apply artificial intelligence.

By Colin Demarest

3 months ago

US businesses propose hiding trade data used to trace labor abuses

The information is used by researchers and reporters seeking to hold corporations accountable for mistreatment of workers in their foreign supply chains.

3 months ago