The first question most people had when they heard about the DARPA 100YSS Study was, “Why is DARPA interested in how to build a space ship a hundred years from now?” DARPA is known for far out projects, like the Internet itself, but even this seemed far out for them. Read More »

IBM announced Monday that it will donate a portion of its Blue Spruce Project code to the Dojo Foundation’s Open Cooperative Web Framework (OpenCoweb), helping enable health IT advancements on several fronts. Read More »

There is little not to like about General Dynamics buying Vangent Inc. for $960 million. Its track record of growth and its ability to deliver quickly on large complex projects has made Vangent one of the jewels of the mid-tier, which I’m defining as companies with $200 million to $1 billion in annual revenue... Read More »

General Dynamics Corp. has closed its $960 million acquisition of Vangent Inc. in a move that builds out GD’s health care IT business. The company becomes part of General Dynamics IT and creates a health care business that stretches across both civilian and defense agencies. Read More »

LONDON: Drug companies are learning how to share. In a bid to save both time and money, some of the industry’s biggest names are experimenting with new ways to pool early-stage research, effectively taking a leaf out of the “open-source” manual that gave the world Linux software. Read More »

Dr. Vinod Sahney thinks the health care industry can learn a lot from airplane pilots. “People forget things, but every pilot knows that before you take off, you go through a checklist regardless of how many years you have been flying,” said Sahney, a newly appointed professor of mechanical and industrial engineering in the College of Engineering. Read More »

PC World — As a geek and longtime tech reporter, there are few things I love writing about more than cool new technological innovations. It never ceases to amaze me what we humans can come up with, particularly when some good technology is fueling the effort. Read More »

Of all the issues that currently afflict our society, perhaps none afflicts more than the American Healthcare system...Among the issues is that the healthcare industry has barely tapped into technology to help patients. But now there’s mounting evidence that this is changing—and changing fast. Read More »

Open source software is something that federal agencies can use more often to meet their goals...On Thursday's Daily Debrief, [Tom Rabon] talked more about why federal agencies should increasingly look at open source as a viable option. Read More »

Just as aid alone will not solve the crisis in the Horn of Africa, open crowdsourced data alone will equally prove insufficient. Open data has proven itself to be the way forward for addressing such humanitarian crises...but we must figure out how to incorporate into the crisis mapping framework the way that the wider conditions of war might stymie humanitarian aid and medical assistance. Read More »