Defense Systems
Big data approach for UAS situational awareness
Simulyze uses big data analytics to provide a clearer picture of what happening around UAS operations.
Business
This Painfully Honest Look at the Space Industry Just Got an Executive Fired
The engineering chief of the nation’s largest rocket-launch firm got a little too candid during a recent talk at his alma mater.
Defense Systems
Army making noise with radar encryption
CERDEC researchers develop a programmable waveform that looks like noise to adversaries and can adapt to congested environments.
Defense Systems
Growth in cyber threats reflected in budget
The head of Cyber Command, Adm. Michael Rogers, tells Congress the command’s increases in budget requests are justified if you “look at the world around you.”
Threats
How Syria’s Uprising Spawned a Jihad
Five years ago, the opposition to Bashar al-Assad was mostly peaceful and secular. What happened?
Business
Is The Government Getting Stingier With Cyber Threat Data?
Virginia Tech's network security chief thinks so. He says overclassification is making it harder to prep and respond.
Business
Bombs Away! Lockheed Expanding Missile Factories, Quadruples Bomb Production for ISIS Long Haul
The Hellfire maker is boosting production for an era of conflict with no end in sight.
Defense Systems
Transcom is a case in point for whole-of-nation cyber posture
In congressional testimony, Gen. Darren McDew outlines how his outfit is uniquely postured between military and commercial service networks.
Defense Systems
Backpack generates power through soldiers' motion
The Energy Harvester Assault Pack could eliminate the need to carry batteries by harnessing the power produced through natural movement.
Science & Tech
Skunk Works Chief: How To Keep America’s Airborne Advantage
Regular updates to the F-22 and F-35, says Lockheed’s Weiss, plus a deep commitment to chasing the game-changing tech of the future.
Ideas
Keep America's Top Military Officer Out of the Chain of Command
I lived through Goldwater-Nichols. Congress should know why it's still a bad idea to give the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who advises the president, that kind of power.
Ideas
The Dangerous Myth of 'America Must Lead'
A world in which the forces of light vie against the forces of darkness, with America charged with ensuring the triumph of good over evil—that isn’t Obama’s world.
Policy
Why Is The Pentagon’s Personnel-Reform Chief Stepping Down? It’s Complicated
Even before Brad Carson got beat up on Capitol Hill, he was ensnared in a Catch-22.
Ideas
Putin Got Exactly What He Wanted in Syria
Russia pulls out of Syria, going home with the leverage Putin came for. The U.S.-led coalition must seize the moment.
Defense Systems
NRL project would collect solar power in space
The orbiting solar array could collect solar energy unencumbered by atmosphere, then transmit it to Earth via microwaves.
Defense Systems
Navy strikes deal for backpack anti-IED jammers
The military is continuing to invest in giving ground troops portable electronic warfare tools.
Threats