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Senate To Reconsider Controversial InfoSec Bill After Recess
The proposed, and long-debated, Cyberthreat Information Sharing Act will see the floor again.
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Lasers Could Be Coming To The F-35
Advances across a range of fields could enable a sci-fi upgrade to the fighter jet.
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$460M CYBERCOM Contract Will Create Digital Munitions
Meanwhile, the military’s digital command hopes to recruit 6,200 operatives to thwart hacks against the US, aid troops overseas, and protect dot-mil.
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Talking Helmets and Robot Builders: The Army's Future of 3D Printing
A researcher at the service’s Weapons and Materials Directorate lays out a vision for additive printers on the battlefield.
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A Flip On Encryption From Former Fed
Mike McConnell, once NSA director and DNI, thinks law enforcement needs to adapt to widespread encryption rather than look for a special key.
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Meet the Man Reinventing CIA for the Big Data Era
An exclusive interview with CIA's new director of digital innovation about his agency’s biggest change in decades.
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How NGA Is Turning Disaster-Relief Mapping Into a Game
A Q&A about GeoQ, the open-source disaster mapping system from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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For Years, the Pentagon Hooked Everything To The Internet. Now It’s a ‘Big, Big Problem’
The Internet of Things is supposed to make life easier. For the Pentagon, the quintessential early adopter, it has made life much harder.
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Engineering Humans for War
Inside the Pentagon’s efforts to create a super-soldier — and change the future of the battlefield.
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NSA Head: Loss of Access to Metadata Will Hurt Intelligence
The director of the NSA says the Freedom Act will slow and hamper intelligence gathering. Too bad it’s already law.
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DHS Wants Self Destructing Phones
A Boeing-GM firm is taking $2.2 million over 2.5 years to develop and test the Black phone's self destruct ‘brain’.
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Just 1 Out of Every 7 Emails The Pentagon Gets Is Legit
Of 700 million emails sent to DOD accounts monthly, about 98 million are actually “good emails,” an official says.
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Drones Armed With High-Energy Lasers May Arrive In 2017
Predator maker looks beyond Hellfire missiles to the weapons of the future.
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White House: No Cyber Attack Pact with China, For Now
The Chinese president’s visit to Washington will highlight how far apart the two nations are on cyber issues.
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While the US Army Sharpens Its Cyber Defenses, the Navy Faces the 'Real' Deal Right Now
U.S. Fleet Cyber Command conducts 'real world operations because they're there, and we don't have a choice' while the Army's Cyber Command is cautiously getting on its feet.
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A Top-Secret Cell Phone Is Just One New Tool the Pentagon Can Expect Soon
In a call with reporters, the Defense Department's chief information officer shared a handful of new developments on the Pentagon's tech horizon.
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In a Switch, UK Asks Its Arms Makers to Design for Export
Defense companies accustomed to making bespoke weapons for the MoD are being urged to consider overseas requirements as well.
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UK Invites ‘Countries of Concern’ To Shop for Weapons in London
More than a dozen countries on Britain’s list of repressive regimes have descended on DSEI, one of the world’s largest arms fairs.
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Dutch Air Force Chief Slams US Army Helicopter Plan
Lt. Gen. Alexander Schnitger said the two designs being evaluated by the US Army could fall far short of actual wartime needs.
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