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Spy Research Agency Is Building a Machine To Predict Cyber Attacks
The intelligence community is holding a contest to design software that combs open source data to predict cyber attacks before they occur.
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How the Military Will Fight ISIS on the Dark Web
ISIS already is on the Dark Web raising money through Bitcoin. The military is on the Dark Web, too.
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Multiple Companies Protest $1.6 Billion Pentagon Contract
Several companies have filed bid protests citing unfair terms in the Defense Information Systems Agency’s recent $1.6 billion cloud services contract.
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Welcome Back from Your Trip Abroad, Now Hand Over That Bugged Phone
Officials at the Justice and Homeland Security Departments are experimenting with various ways to neutralize foreign spy gear.
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Cyber Firm: The NSA Is Out-Hacking the Chinese and the Russians
A new report exposes the agency's efforts to penetrate systems in multiple countries.
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Obama To Sell Armed Drones To More Countries
New rules suggest that more drones are headed to the Middle East to fight the Islamic State.
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Can Industry Cloud Providers Compete With the milCloud?
The widespread adoption of the milCloud has been slower, and more expensive than what DOD officials would have liked.
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Here Come the Drones: FAA Announces Civilian Rules
New regulations allow for wider civilian drone use in U.S. air space, but pizza delivery is still a ways away.
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DARPA's New Search Engine Puts Google in the Dust
After only one year in use, DARPA's Memex search engine has already played a key role in nearly 20 different investigations.
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How a Homeland Security Shutdown Would Imperil US Cyber Defense
An agency official told House lawmakers a partial shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security would do more than just slow a timely response to critical threats.
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The Marines Are Building Robotic War Balls
The future of amphibious assault looks kind of like an explosive inner tube. It’s really a drone.
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'Dramatic Improvement' in US and European Intel Sharing Because of ISIS
The FBI is tracking every ISIS member it knows in the US, but needs Congress to block companies from offering encryption.
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The CIA Is Bringing Amazon's Marketplace to the Intelligence Community
In the coming months, Amazon will launch a separate version of its widely successful commercial cloud marketplace for the intelligence community.
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What a New $35 Million Agency Is Expected To Do for US Cyber Defense
The new Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center is intended to coordinate intelligence among government agencies to better respond to cyber attacks.
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Military Looking To Give Troops Super Sensing Abilities
A new DARPA program wants to give soldiers digital ESP.
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White House Project Will Yield Brain-Based Lie Detectors
How near-future advances in functional brain imaging will make enhanced interrogation an obsolete method of obtaining information.
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How US Technology Could Help Ukraine Without ‘Arming’ It
Most of what Ukraine is asking the U.S. for would not be lethal.
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The Department of Homeland Security Is Stepping Up Its Cyber Defenses
White House and Homeland Security officials previewed a series of initiatives fusing cyber defense with real-time intelligence methods already in place.
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Obama Pushes for Greater Intel Sharing in New Strategy
Risky or not, the new national security strategy pushes for greater information sharing between intelligence agencies, at home and abroad.
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