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Army unsheathes Excalibur supercomputer
The 3.7 petaflop Cray Xc40 machine greatly boosts processing power at the Defense Supercomputing Resource Center.
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Navy is on to the next phase of laser weapons
ONR awards Northrop a potentially $91 million contract to develop a more powerful directed-energy system.
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Army wants autonomous UAS for GPS-denied environments
Researchers are looking for game-changing sensing technologies that could work for a variety of unmanned vehicles.
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Air Force 'on the road' to predictive cyber algorithm
The Air Combat Command’s chief of intelligence talks about "fusion warfare" and how today’s cyber capabilities resemble aviation during World War I.
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Air Force, Raytheon successfully test airborne EW missiles
The updated HARM Control Section Modification can suppress or destroy an enemy’s surface-to-air missile radars.
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The military is making big plans for nanoscale materials
HRL Laboratories, a joint venture of Boeing and General Motors, is developing processes to assemble strong, extremely lightweight nanoscale materials for DOD systems
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The five stages of a cyber intrusion
In accordance with National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the Navy detailed the steps adversaries use to gain access to networks and steal data.
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'Bioscavengers' could stop nerve agents in their tracks
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is looking to protect warfighters from nerve agents like sarin before those agents can do any damage.
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Going mobile: DOD needs to take the next steps on security
DOD is ahead of civilian agencies on security, a SolarWinds survey finds, but there is still a lot of work to be done.
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Army asks for help in cyber and network management
The service is looking for contractors to assist with the full range of cyber identity management support services.
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GSA issues $460M request for Cyber Command support
Contract would support the command across the full range of its mission areas.
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U.S. sends drones to Africa for counterterrorism operations
The ScanEagle units being delivered to the Kenyan and Cameroonian militaries are part of an effort to share some of the military’s technological advantage with allies.
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Wideband SATCOM terminals heading to sea
Norsat International gets a $2.7 million subcontract for maritime VSATs, or very small aperture terminals.
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Army orders 19 next-gen, long-endurance Gray Eagles
General Atomics gets a contract for the Improved Gray Eagle unmanned aerial systems, which can stay aloft nearly twice as long as previous versions.
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Hacker suspected of giving US info to ISIS is arrested in Malaysia
The stolen information on over 1,300 military personnel and government employees was released to encourage ISIS sympathizers to carry out attacks.
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DARPA wants better air-to-air networking
The agency is asking for technologies that enable greater network interoperability between friendly airborne platforms in adversarial environments.
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U.S. discusses space-sharing activities with allies in New Zealand
Military leaders meet with counterparts from four other countries to talk about military-to-military partnerships and other topics.
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Lockheed turret can give jets a 360-degree laser weapon
The prototype, developed for DARPA and AFRL, neutralizes of effect of turbulence that would limit lasers to firing only straight ahead.
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Army cyber forces should 'take a page' from adversaries
At the annual AUSA conference, the National Mission Force commander says the Army could stand to learn something about "cheap, fast and easy."
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