Earlier this week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) concluded the final event of its Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC)—the world’s first all-machine cyber hacking tournament. Seven teams participated in the preliminary round of the eight-plus-hours competition at the...

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) have entered into a data-sharing agreement that will further enrich the WIPO GREEN database. Through this agreement, the FLC has uploaded hundreds of green technologies from U.S...

In the midst of the verdant French countryside is a workshop the size of an aircraft hangar bustling with activity. In a well-lit new extension, technicians cut through thick slices of steel with electric saws and blast metal joints with welding torches. Inside this building sits its newest...

Role-based access control (RBAC) is a widely used access control model. A primary reason for this is its ease of administration compared to other access control mechanisms. Administrators naturally think about a user’s relationship to the organization in terms of the user’s job...

Students from the University of New Mexico’s (UNM) Rocket Engineering Team built the world’s largest launched amateur rocket through an Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Directed Energy and Space Vehicles Directorate. Under the...

Have a great idea that will advance clean vehicle technologies? Submit your concept to the Department of Energy this month for a chance at funds to make your idea real. Late last month, the department announced that it will make more than $55 million available for cost-shared projects to...