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Drones Could One Day Make Up 40% of a Carrier Air Wing, Navy Says
The Department’s new unmanned plan directs focus not just on drones but on their “enabling technologies.”
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DARPA Aims to Boost US Manufacturing of Certain Chips
Better processes for converting general-purpose chips to specialized ones would pay big dividends, agency says.
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Key Official: Defense Information Operations ‘Not Evolving Fast Enough’
China will soon harness AI to supplant Russia as the world leader in information warfare, a DIA leader said.
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Putin Authorized Smear Campaign Against Biden, US Intelligence Concludes
Less hacking, more laundering: 2020 tactics show evolution of Russian information warfare efforts.
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Can Plant-Based Vaccines Speed Up Production?
Clinical trials for Medicago’s new manufacturing process may glean the go-ahead.
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DARPA Seeks Chips that Can Crunch Data Without Decrypting It
Current methods of doing "fully homomorphic encryption" require too much computing power to be used widely.
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Splitting NSA, CyberCom Now Could Reduce Military Access to Intelligence, Milley Says
The Joint Chiefs chairman says the organizations have not yet worked out how to keep the data flowing after the long-awaited split.
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DARPA to Hire Biz Execs to Help Its Researchers Take Tech to Market
In a cooperative effort with In-Q-Tel, 150 research teams will get funds to help develop go-to-market strategies.
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Key Elements Expected This Year for Pentagon’s Link-Everything Effort
A second NORTHCOM experiment aims to prove out various concepts for JADC2.
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Hyten: US Must Broaden Its Strategic Deterrence Concept — and Keep Its ICBMs
The Joint Chiefs vice chair said a “new strategic defense review” should take account of communications and sensors.
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Island-Hopping F-35s Test Pacific Air Forces’ Agility Concept
A pair of jets flew two missions from different airfields on the same day in a bid to complicate Chinese targeting.
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Pentagon Looks to Tap 5G in Space
“Any aspect of 5G applied to any aspect of space systems is of potential interest,” says a new request for information.
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How China’s Digital Silk Road Is Leading Countries Away from the United States
Beijing is using technology products, markets, and training to secure influence with U.S. security partners, a IISS report finds.
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US Army Tests Autonomous Vehicle in Maryland
Researchers aim to better understand how the self-moving machines respond to real-world challenges.
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DOD’s Smart Warehouse-Enabling 5G Network Underway
An initial demonstration should occur this summer, an official said.
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Space Lasers Will Revolutionize Military Communications, If They Work
The Pentagon has ambitious plans to launch hundreds of communications satellites in the years ahead. But getting them to talk to one another isn’t easy.
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Russia Is Working to Pair Combat Jets and Drones, Too
In moves to match the U.S. military, experiments are aimed at producing mixed air regiments that are tied into a wider battlefield network.
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Sensors That Track Earthquakes Are Hackable, Researchers Find
A Greek team found they could interrupt and even falsify data.
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AI-Powered Tools for Commanders Are a Top Priority for ‘Connect-Everything’ Effort
DoD’s artificial-intelligence efforts are moving beyond just helping analysts spot things in video.
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