Science & Tech
Google Earth Is Helping Syrians Call In US Air Strikes
Kurdish militia fighters are using Android tablets and free Google mapping tools to track battle lines and coordinate close air support with the US military.
Business
Defense Contractors to Obama: Enough With the Executive Orders
Industry organizations lead a push against a tide of new regulations, such as the requirement to allow employees to take up to 56 hours' annual paid sick leave.
Defense Systems
DARPA calls for 'revolutionary' software development
The agency wants ideas that challenge accepted norms and could guarantee trustworthy systems.
Defense Systems
DISA to start enforcing email storage limits
If DOD Enterprise Email users haven't cleaned out their inboxes lately, now would be a good time.
Ideas
Don't Be Led Astray by the Legend of the Surge
Having misunderstood the lessons of the Iraq War, Republicans are taking a dangerously hawkish turn.
Science & Tech
How Uber Could Help Change Spycraft
The U.S. intelligence community wants feedback from the innovative car-sharing company and other commercial startups on its 5-year data-analysis roadmap.
Science & Tech
Someone At DEF CON Made a Drone That Hacks Computers
You can buy it for $2,500 — and turn it into a flying malware injector.
Defense Systems
Navy adds $29M worth of radios for global satellite system
The latest batch of Digital Modular Radios from General Dynamics will work with the Mobile User Objective System.
Defense Systems
Researchers show how to take out drones with loud noises
A team from South Korea's KAIST found that sound can disrupt gyroscopes commonly used on unmanned aerial vehicles.
Science & Tech
Hackers to Military: Replace Us With Robots? Ha!
Next year’s Cyber Grand Challenge event will pit humans against machines in a grand hacking war. DEF CON’s war gamers like their chances.
Business
In Swamp Phase, Women Ranger Candidates Blend Right In
Everyone in the last phase of the Army's elite school looks the same: sweat-soaked and exhausted. And the Ranger Association says everyone who graduates can be a member.
Policy
National Security: Top Issue for GOP Voters, Sideshow in Debate
The U.S. is at war across the globe, but the leading Republican candidates spent most of their time at the two-hour debate on other subjects.
Defense Systems
Army developing nine-language voice translator
The Army wants to equip deployed soldiers with a two-way translation device, starting with a focus on French dialects in Africa.
Defense Systems
DOD study: Climate change is a security threat -- right now
A report to Congress warns that the effects of global warming are no longer a "long-term risk."
Threats
US Releases First ISIS Detainee to Iraq, Setting Precedent for a New War
The White House hands Nasrin As’ad Ibrahim to Iraqi authorities, saying it has a ‘firm belief that she will be held to account for her crimes.’
Science & Tech
The Robots Taking Your Job Could Get You Killed
Automating processes at chemical and pharmaceutical plants could save money, but at what cost to safety?
Threats