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| Aug 29, 2025 | CMS Launches “Crushing Fraud Chili Cook-Off” Challenge to Combat Medicare Fraud with AI | What You Should Know:
– The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) has launched a new market-based research challenge called the Crushing Fraud Chili Cook-Off Competition. The goal of the competition is to use explainable artificial inte... |
| Jan 7, 2025 | Justice Department Launches 2025 Access to Justice Prize to Address the Rural Justice Gap | The Justice Department’s Office for Access to Justice today announced the launch of the Access to Justice Prize, a year-long prize competition that aims to foster innovative solutions to address critical gaps in access to justice across the... |
| Apr 23, 2024 | DHS Announces First Winners, Awards $835,000 “Clean Power for Hours Challenge” in Celebration of Earth Day 2024 | Competition Crowdsources, Engages Citizen Inventors Directly to Find Promising Clean Energy Storage Solutions
WASHINGTON – As the Biden-Harris Administration celebrates Earth Day, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the five... |
| Aug 3, 2023 | HHS Launches Innovation Challenge to Prevent Human Trafficking Among Women and Girls | The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) Office on Women’s Health (OWH), is launching a new challenge worth up to $1.8 million to organizations with successful i... |
| May 5, 2023 | Secretary Becerra Announces New Initiatives at HHS Mental Health Summit to Strengthen Access to Mental Health Care | FindSupport.gov and HHS Children and Youth Resilience Challenge will increase access to health resources and support.
Secretary Becerra, at the HHS Mental Health Summit, announced new initiatives by the Biden-Harris Administration to increa... |
| Jun 9, 2022 | HHS Announces National Competition to Spark Innovation that Will Improve Patient Access to Primary Care | Open to broad public participation with a total of $1 million in cash prizes for up to 30 winners
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), announced the ... |
| May 23, 2022 | Mavenir, Fujitsu, Radisys, others selected for NTIA's open RAN program | WASHINGTON – Today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS), in Boulder, Colo., in collaboration with the Department of Defense (DoD), announced 5G Challenge con... |
| May 20, 2022 | $1 Million LymeX Diagnostics Prize Launches to Improve Lyme Disease Testing | Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation (Cohen Foundation) launched the LymeX Diagnostics Prize, a $1 million competition to accelerate the development of Lyme disease di... |
| May 18, 2022 | HHS Announces Its First-Ever Behavioral Health Recovery Innovation Challenge | The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is announcing its first-ever behavioral health Recovery Innovation Challenge. The goal of this challenge is t... |
| May 6, 2022 | Secretary Becerra Celebrates Mother’s Day, Applauds 12-month Postpartum Expansion in Tennessee and South Carolina | Today, ahead of Mother’s Day Weekend, Secretary Xavier Becerra released the following statement to applaud the announcement of Tennessee and South Carolina working with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand Medica... |
| Apr 26, 2022 | Rakuten wins 5G Challenge early bird award from NTIA, DoD | WASHINGTON – Today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS), in Boulder, Colo., in collaboration with the Department of Defense (DoD), announced 5G Challenge con... |
| Apr 11, 2022 | Secretary Becerra and HHS Leaders Celebrate Black Maternal Health Week 2022 | Biden-Harris Administration continues to advance its goals of improving maternal health and equity.
Today, Secretary Xavier Becerra and leaders across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the following statements ... |
| Apr 6, 2022 | NTIA puts up $3M for DoD's open 5G networks | WASHINGTON – Today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS), in Boulder, Colo., announced the launch of the 5G Challenge in collaboration with the Department of ... |
| Sep 30, 2020 | NIST is crowdsourcing differential privacy techniques for public safety datasets | The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is launching the Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge. It’s a set of contests, with cash prizes attached, intended to crowdsource new ways of handling personally identifiable ... |
| Sep 30, 2020 | NIST is crowdsourcing differential privacy techniques for public safety datasets | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The National Institute of Standards and Technolog... |
| Mar 19, 2019 | MELD Manufacturing graduates to Phase III in the army’s search for an expeditionary helping hand | In August 2018, industrial metal 3D printing company MELD Manufacturing announced that it had been selected for Phase 1 of the U.S. Army’s Expeditionary Technology Search, xTechSearch. Now, over 7 months later, the company has confirmed tha... |
| Jun 24, 2018 | Армия США объявила конкурс для стартапов по разработке оружия | Американская армия запустила программу xTechSearch для стартапов, способных разрабатывать военные технологии. Об этом пишет Mashable.
В описании конкурса сказано, что армия США ищет «нетрадиционных партнеров в оборонной сфере», то есть комп... |
| Dec 21, 2017 | Maryland researchers have a plan to use sensors to monitor the Chesapeake Bay for pollution | A project to place environmental sensors in the Chesapeake Bay won the first phase of a federal challenge.
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) and state Department of Natural Resources are working together on... |
| Jul 24, 2017 | Can solar powered, sensor-filled cubes change urban air quality monitoring? | Later this year, hundreds of cubes with solar panels will begin showing up around Baltimore.
According to Anna Scott, a PhD student studying climate science at Johns Hopkins, they hold a new way to measure air quality in the city.
With gene... |
| Mar 3, 2017 | TECHealth is how city government and technologists should work together | With a food computer glowing toward the front of the room at the University of Maryland BioPark, a mix of officials and technologists described the projects in the Baltimore health department’s TECHealth program on Thursday night.
They invo... |
| Dec 16, 2016 | The race is on to create real-time alcohol monitoring wearable | Last year, the US government hosted a competition to develop a new alcohol monitoring wearable and ended up giving the $200,000 first prize to San Francisco-based, BACtrack, for creating a prototype of a wrist wearable that can detect alcoh... |
| Dec 8, 2016 | Hackathons emerge as an outlet for Silicon Valley to channel its frustration in the wake of the election | While no one knows what Donald Trump’s victory in last month’s election will mean for Silicon Valley, or the technology industry broadly, the President-Elect’s win has crystallized the region’s thinking around at least one problem.
Many tec... |
| Nov 16, 2016 | UW student launches Otogear to fight chronic hearing loss by making earplugs cool | Otogear earplug attachments.
Madeline Bennett is driven by a passion for entrepreneurship and hearing science, so when she saw an opportunity to leverage her interests to solve a problem facing her peers, she jumped at it.
She observed chro... |
| Apr 2, 2016 | The gig economy as a driver of innovation | Michael Contreras Contributor
Michael Contreras is director of SensisChallenges, a professional services practice for the design and execution of custom challenges.
If you are reading this article, chances are you have taken an Uber, are fa... |
| Mar 23, 2016 | MBA bankrolling IRS $10,000 challenge to ‘reimagine’ taxpayer experience | The Internal Revenue Service is launching its first crowdsourced challenge, offering big money to anyone who can come up with the best idea to “reimagine the taxpayer experience of the future.”
But the money is not coming from the IRS itsel... |
| Nov 4, 2015 | Copyright Terms And How Historical Journalism Is Disappearing | The National Endowment for the Humanities announced last Wednesday the “Chronicling America” contest to create projects out of historical newspaper data. The contest is supposed to showcase the history of the United States through the lens ... |
| Apr 8, 2015 | These 6 Tips Will Help You Secure Edtech Funding | A firm believer in the idea that "technology has the power to drive equity," Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released Tuesday the Department of Education's Ed Tech Developer's Guide, a 68-page report intended to serve as a prim... |
| Jan 13, 2015 | The 8 categories of crowdsourcing in healthcare | Crowdsourcing involves soliciting input, ideas, services and capital from online communities as opposed to traditional suppliers. Its beauty lies in the ability to harness large and diverse groups who are primarily volunteers and part time ... |
| Feb 10, 2014 | 5 Things You Should Know about XPRIZE and Incentivized Prize Competitions | At an event last Wednesday at Tesla Motors in downtown DC, the X Prize Foundation held a panel discussion on the role of incentivized prize competitions on American innovation. It talked about how the private sector and government can work ... |
| Jan 21, 2014 | Why Warren Buffett’s Billion-Dollar Prize To Predict The Perfect NCAA Bracket Matters | By this time next year, the world could see one more geeky billionaire. Investment mogul Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway company is backing a billion-dollar prize to predict the perfect NCAA tournament bracket.
“We’ve seen a lot of cont... |
| Jun 7, 2013 | Data liberacion 2013: We are coming for your silos | My week-long adventure in D.C. started out with stories about personal health data at XX in Health on Sunday. I had the pleasure of spending the day with other women in healthcare, learning about their personal and professional challenges a... |
| Jun 5, 2013 | Sensors, thermometers, and bears oh my! Three devices spotted at Datapalooza | Kinsa presented on the main stage and showed off their smart thermometer. They are raising money on Indiegogo and are only about $11,000 short of their $50,000 goal.
We have created a thermometer that gives you so much more than just a temp... |
| May 20, 2013 | Everhealthier Women: Penn Nursing prof wins $85K federal mobile app challenge | Make cancer prevention as simple as following a checklist on a mobile app.
That was the idea behind Everhealthier Women, an app built by a team led by a Penn Nursing School professor that won the $85,000 first prize in a women’s cancer prev... |
| May 15, 2013 | ONC backs $40K app challenge for improving cancer care transitions | Here are some of the areas the challenge seeks to address, according to the ONC’s website:
Optimizing patient-provider communication and customizing management of survivor care.
Follow-up care needs like medication tracking and adherence, h... |
| Jun 5, 2012 | Which of these five mobile apps will best help the homeless? | Can a mobile app help the homeless? The U.S. government thinks so, and it has drafted a few good developers to compete on just such a project for a $25,000 grand prize.
Today, the VA Innovation Initiative announced the five finalists of its... |
| Mar 12, 2012 | Brits ask Jimmy Wales to help crowdsource government | The British government wants to open up and get the public more involved in policy-making, and it is bringing on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales as an unpaid advisor on the initiative.
Rohan Silva, a senior aide to UK Prime Minister David Cam... |
| Feb 25, 2012 | How Two Startups Use Games to Beat the Developer Crunch | “You can’t judge if someone is one of the best programmers in the country in 1 minute, but it turns out you can in 5 minutes.”
Good software developers are hard to find. Startups are all about finding creative solutions to common problems –... |
| Aug 24, 2011 | FDA fast-tracks Bayer’s promising prostate cancer treatment (Morning Read) | Emergency preparedness: There’s an app for that. Coincidentally in sync with yesterday’s earthquake, the Department of Health and Human Services has launched the “Lifeline Facebook App Challenge,” a contest to develop an app that would use ... |
| Aug 9, 2011 | With Michelle Obama and New York City as clients, ChallengePost raises $4.1M | ChallengePost, a site where anyone can post a public challenge, has pulled in a $4.1 million first round of funding.
ChallengePost is a hub for anyone, individuals and businesses alike, to virtually present challenges to the public. The cha... |
| Aug 9, 2011 | With Michelle Obama and New York City as clients, ChallengePost raises $4.1M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
ChallengePost, a site where anyone can post a pub... |
| Jun 3, 2011 | Mobile flu tracking? There’s an app for that | By Tom Ulrich
Before you know it, flu season – that miserable time of sneezing, snuffling, coughing, and generally feeling blah – will be upon us again. And as with anything, the best way to deal with the flu is to be prepared for it.
But w... |
| Apr 13, 2011 | Five Open Questions For Data.gov Before We #SaveTheData | Editor’s note: Guest author Kate Ray is the co-founder of Nerd Collider, a new Q&A website designed to bring a diverse group of nerds to a temporary page to solve a problem.
Data.gov is coughing blood. The budget being negotiated by Con... |
| Government asks business, academia to find way to cut power line radiation
Into the Land: The Forgery Scandal | The Environmental Protection Ministry announced Monday that it would use a newly created national challenges website to ask businesses and academia to help find ways to reduce non-ionizing radiation from high-voltage overhead power lines, w... |
| Data liberacion 2013: We are coming for your silos | My week-long adventure in D.C. started out with stories about personal health data at XX in Health on Sunday. I had the pleasure of spending the day with other women in healthcare, learning about their personal and professional challenges a... |
| The 8 categories of crowdsourcing in healthcare | In 2012, we authored a report titled The Evolving Business Case for Social Media in Healthcare – a publication covering the range of social media influences on the industry. These influences were essentially cloud-based approaches to sharin... |
| ONC backs $40K app challenge for improving cancer care transitions | The National Cancer Institute and the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT are throwing down $40,000 in an innovation challenge to encourage app developers to step and brainstorm ideas to improve cancer care, particularly improving ... |
| Sensors, thermometers, and bears oh my! Three devices spotted at Datapalooza | Although apps were the focus at Datapalooza IV, there were a few medical devices in the mix as well, ranging from futuristic to fluffy.
A unique team that includes a movie director, entrepreneur, and environmental engineer won the My Air My... |
| FDA fast-tracks Bayer’s promising prostate cancer treatment (Morning Read) | Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about healthcare.
Bayer gets FDA boost. The FDA granted fast-track status to Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals’ experimental prostate cancer treatment designed to release rad... |
