Fed Tech Archives

Veterans Affairs VA health Robert Wilkie — Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie tours the VA North Texas Health Care System on Aug. 29, 2018. (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs / Flickr)

VA brings in FedTech for employee innovation trainings

The group will train Veterans Health Administration employees on "new ways to use innovation and creativity within VA."

Nov 6, 2019 By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier

robotics, prosthetics, artificial intelligence, machine learning — DARPA’s prosthetic LUKE arm gets a fist bump at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in December 2016. (DARPA.mil)

How to work with DARPA, according to DARPA

"Do your homework beforehand."

Nov 29, 2018 By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier

The SPIDER tech, initially developed in the Naval Research Lab, could be used in uniforms for firefighters and other first responders. (Quinn Dombrowski / Flickr)

How the Fed Tech accelerator makes the most of hot ideas in federal labs

An idea for treating fabric moves from a Navy lab through to a startup company, showing how federal research can transfer to the entrepreneurial world.

Feb 8, 2018

The Fed Tech fall 2017 cohort at graduation. (Tajha Chappellet-Lanier)

This small accelerator program is funneling tech from federal labs into new startups

Fed Tech is a platform and a program that connects would-be entrepreneurs to technologies developed in federal labs.

Dec 5, 2017 By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier