Defense Systems
Danzig: Analog has value in countering cyber threats
The former Navy secretary recommends some unconventional approaches to help meet the cybersecurity challenge. Quantum encryption? Not so much.
Science & Tech
Is This the Warship of the Future?
Laser-armed battleships that print their own drones will have to survive anti-ship missiles plummeting from space.
Ideas
Norfolk, Home To World’s Largest Naval Base, Must Adapt As Waters Rise
This port city is racing to figure out how to deal with harsher storms and elevated sea levels — and it's not alone.
Ideas
The Allure of ISIS Has Reached Long-Stable Ghana
So far, recruits number a tiny handful of people in a nation of 26 million. But Ghanaians should hear alarm bells ringing.
Science & Tech
The Air Force Will Test the F-35 Against the A-10—But Not Until 2018
Is the Warthog better at defending ground troops? The brass wants to know, not that they're in any rush.
Defense Systems
DARPA's Gremlins could cut the costs of attack drones
The program would employ cheap UAS that would be launched from a plane, carry out their missions and then drone home.
Defense Systems
The Air Force brings the B-52 into the digital age
With Boeing's CONECT communications system, the venerable bomber goes from 'a rotary-dial phone to a smartphone.'
Defense Systems
DISA raises the limit on support deal with Microsoft
The modification to the contract for Blue Badge Cardholder support brings the total to $575 million.
Science & Tech
Here’s What The Military’s Top Roboticist Is Afraid Of (It’s Not Killer Robots)
We’re on the verge of an explosion in robotic capability and diversity, and it would be folly to stop exploring now, says the man who ran DARPA’s Grand Robotics Challenge.
Business
As New Book Arrives, Pentagon Warns Special Operators Against Leaks
Defense secretary, SOCOM remind troops to keep secrets as new details of bin Laden raid and other missions emerge.
Science & Tech
The Military Wants Swarm Bots It Can Retrieve in Midair
They'll bite through your aileron wires. They'll insert toasting forks in your tyres. That is the tale of the Gremlins.
Ideas
How To Respond To a State-Sponsored Cyber Attack
The murky nature of network warfare makes it hard to choose a response. Here are some ways to think about it.
Threats
Inside the Pentagon’s Manhunting Machine
A brief history of Joint Special Operations Command, from Panama to the war on terror
Science & Tech
Flexible Electronics Are the Goal of Pentagon's First Silicon Valley Partnership
Defense Secretary Ash Carter announces a five-year, $171 million effort to make and improve bendable circuitry.
Defense Systems
DOD, Silicon Valley to partner on flexible electronics
The $171 million initiative will be led by the FlexTech Alliance, a consortium of 162 companies, universities, and non-profits.
Defense Systems
Creative simulations help test new weather radar
The Air Force is testing updates for C-5 Galaxy color weather radars using the salvaged cockpit of a downed C-5 as a simulator.
Ideas
Who's Leading the World's ‘Counter Violent Extremism’ Efforts? No One
An international institution dedicated to CVE research and evaluation would reduce redundancy and promote buy-in.
Business