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Durable Defense: Deploying Military Technology with Confidence

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Feb 14th 2019

As more mission critical defense activities operate in harsh environments facing peers and near-peers in combat, the burden to keep defense technology durable has gr … View More

Buy America: What Comes Next for American Transportation Technology

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Feb 1st 2019

In April 2017, President Trump said, “We’re going to do everything in our power to make sure more products are stamped with those wonderful words ‘ … View More

Greenville Gets BOLD: SC Tech Hub Announces Smart City Plans with Sprint

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Jan 29th 2019

At CES 2019, Sprint announced plans to use their Curiosity IoT in Greenville, South Carolina. The announcement follows several years of Greenville IoT planning, whic … View More

Who Needs Diversity in Tech? – Diversity in Tech: Part II

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Jan 17th 2019

Diversity for diversity’s sake is not a productive conversation. Part I in our “Diversity in Tech” series showed that the consequences of diversity … View More

Cyborgs in Our Midst: High Tech Assistive Technology in the Age of Cobotics

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Jan 3rd 2019

Images of machines made to look like humans — terminators, replicants and Ex Machina vixens — define the peak of human-robot relations in media. But huma … View More

The New Wave of the Amazon Effect: How Digital Operations Are Changing Industrial Spaces

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Dec 11th 2018

The demand market says, “have what you want, when you want it, where you want it,” and the rise of this slogan is called the Amazon Effect. The ruling pa … View More

Grinch 4.0: An IIoT Reboot

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Dec 5th 2018

Although Whos down in Whoville love The Grinch a lot…His cousin The Grump, of New York City, does NOT!The Grinch had been tricked and betrayed his kind:He nee … View More

Climate Defense: Military Technology Fights Climate Change

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Nov 30th 2018

In military language, climate change is referred to as a “threat multiplier:” a risk that exacerbates the pre-existing challenges — such as disease … View More

Machine Condition Monitoring: Predicting Mechanical Wear and Tear

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Nov 16th 2018

On Reddit, 558,000 people subscribe to r/CatastrophicFailure, a crowd-sourced display of machines and other systems failing with dramatic results. There are explosio … View More

Diversity in Tech: Part I

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Nov 7th 2018

In recent years, a movement has arisen: Diversity in Technology. Memos have been sent at high-profile companies. Movies such as Hidden Figures and The Imitation Game … View More

4 Next Gen Travel Technology Tools Complicating the Lives of Vampires

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Oct 26th 2018

To whom it may concern on the International Council of Monsters:Thank you very much for the invitation to your Mashtastic Halloween Conference in Iceland. While I am … View More

Why Don’t I Need a Landline?: The Rise of Wireless 9-1-1 Service

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Oct 24th 2018

According to NENA, the 9-1-1 Association, approximately 240 million calls a year are made to 9-1-1 in the US. 80% of them — 192 million calls — come from … View More

Wireless Power: One Futuristic Technology Energizing Smart Cities

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Sep 22nd 2018

A mobile device battery has many demands to fill: photos, maps, social media, apps and ride hailing services, etc. These demands increase at conferences and during t … View More

Grid Resilience: Three Key Strategies to Make the Grid Stronger

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Sep 5th 2018

Paperback thrillers have used the grid relentlessly: EMPs take it out; enemy governments hack it; a weather disaster topples it or, perhaps the worst outcome, humani … View More

Air and Missile Defense: Cutting-Edge Technology Defends America’s Skies

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Aug 28th 2018

The US Military, especially the Army, has been rolling out modern battlefield communication and control systems over the past few years. On the ground, these updat … View More

Smart Money Matters: Smart City Monetization of Transportation Technology

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Aug 22nd 2018

Smart cities are the new cities. Like their predecessors, these municipalities need money to run their services. With changing demographics and population habits, tr … View More

Augmented Public Safety: AR Technology Gives Emergency Services Second Set of Eyes

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Jul 28th 2018

Public safety departments are catching up with futuristic, augmented reality technology. Some people aren’t happy about it: for example, Microsoft is raising t … View More

Snuffing Fires: Technology is Smokey the Bear’s Eyes and Ears

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Jul 20th 2018

The American West is burning. By July 2018, 1.1 million acres of land had burned in 10 states from wildfire activity that began in June. Over 600 wildland firefighte … View More

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