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Will DoD Lead the Way in Developing Smart Energy Grids and Microgrids? The world microgrid market topped $4 billion in 2010, and according to a recent Congressional study the military microgrid market alone is projected to increase by 375% from 2010-2020. Microgrids, localized groupings of power generation, storage and load management units, can operate, if necessary or by design, independently from the larger power grid. Because of their siz...

Big Data for Defense, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Today’s Warfighter has access to an ever-increasing number of sensors, imagers, internet artifacts, open source and other sophisticated collection devices and mechanisms, to the point that a major challenge has become how to sift through this massive amount of information to find the most critical and actionable items of intelligence. Increasingly, this must be accomplished in nea...

Government Enterprise Mobility – Improved Customer Service and Increased Organizational Efficiency and Productivity The Federal Digital Government Strategy promises to provide dramatically improved customer service even as demand for public-government interaction skyrockets. To achieve this, each Federal agency is expected to establish an enterprise-wide mobility strategy, development approach and implementation plan that will incorporat...

Big Data and Government R&D – Turning Overload into Exploitable Information Assets Earlier this year the White House announced funding for a large new research and development initiative aimed at extracting and exploiting the “knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data… to help solve some the Nation’s most pressing challenges.” This is in addition to numerous ongoing “Big...