Diversity in Tech is about physical representation and cognitive variation. But representation and variation show up the most in large workforces. Right now, there are…
Durable Defense: Deploying Military Technology with Confidence
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 grown.…
Buy America: What Comes Next for American Transportation Technology
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…
Greenville Gets BOLD: SC Tech Hub Announces Smart City Plans with Sprint
At CES 2019, Sprint announced plans to use their Curiosity IoT in Greenville, South Carolina. The announcement follows several years of Greenville IoT planning, which…
Who Needs Diversity in Tech? – Diversity in Tech: Part II
Diversity for diversity’s sake is not a productive conversation. Part I in our “Diversity in Tech” series showed that the consequences of diversity – creativity,…
Cyborgs in Our Midst: High Tech Assistive Technology in the Age of Cobotics
Images of machines made to look like humans — terminators, replicants and Ex Machina vixens — define the peak of human-robot relations in media. But…
The New Wave of the Amazon Effect: How Digital Operations Are Changing Industrial Spaces
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…
Grinch 4.0: An IIoT Reboot
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…
Climate Defense: Military Technology Fights Climate Change
In military language, climate change is referred to as a “threat multiplier:” a risk that exacerbates the pre-existing challenges — such as disease and civil…