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US Seeks Technology to Help Allies Avoid Bombing Civilians
Pentagon officials are looking for tools and methods that can be declassified and shared with international partners.
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Russia's Would-Be Windows Replacement Gets a Security Upgrade
For sensitive communications, the Russian government aims to replace the ubiquitous Microsoft operating system with a bespoke flavor of Linux, a sign of the country's growing IT independence.
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NATO Getting More Aggressive on Offensive Cyber
Secretary General Stoltenberg says NATO pushes limits of what the alliance can do in cyberspace.
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Inside the Government's Quest to Safely Use Open-Source Code
One security company found that about 10 percent of individual software components contain a known vulnerability.
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3 Lawmakers Propose $2.2B Over 5 Years to Advance AI
The Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act would devote resources to education and research, and help coordinate AI adoption across government.
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ICE Wants To Track Electronic Devices — Through Time
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is soliciting for a cloud-based system that can geolocate devices using multiple sources, including apps.
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House Appropriators Take Aim at Some of the Pentagon’s Most Ambitious Tech Ideas
The new Congress is cold on many of the Pentagon’s most elaborate projects and plans.
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Six New Technologies NRO Wants
The spy agency is offering up to half a million dollars for promising prototypes.
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Poll: Americans Want To Stay In Nuclear Arms Control Agreements
But there are lots of devils in the polling details.
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Nuclear Weapons Are Getting Less Predictable, and More Dangerous
Facing steerable ICBMs and smaller warheads, the Pentagon seeks better tracking as the White House pursues an unlikely arms-control treaty.
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The Bay Area’s Spy Camera Ban Is Only the Beginning
San Francisco just became the first city to ban use of facial recognition technology by government entities. Oakland may be next.
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Moscow to Weave AI Face Recognition into Its Urban Surveillance Net
City authorities say the planned system will have access to all 160,000 existing cameras.
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'Siri, Watch That Guy': Pentagon Seeks AI that Can Track Someone Across a City
The intel community's researchers are looking for datasets to help train their computers.
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Engineers Pitch Clean-Energy Plants Along Border
A proposal imagines how building solar panels and wind turbines along the U.S.-Mexico border could unite calls for a Green New Deal and a border wall.
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Pentagon ‘Matchmakers’ Aim to Keep US Tech Firms from Taking Chinese Money
Defense officials hope to protect cutting-edge technologies by getting innovative firms funded by U.S.-friendly investors.
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The Push to ‘Predict’ Police Shootings
Tracking officers’ stress exposure and body-camera practices could help keep them from pulling the trigger.
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US Military Testing Whether Human Pilots Can Trust Robot Wingmen in a Dogfight
DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution program aims to find out — and so shape America’s future arsenal.
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The Pentagon Still Buys Software Like It's 1987
The Defense Innovation Board recently discovered that a 32-year-old report "pretty much said it all."
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Don’t Expect the US Military’s Next Fighter to Be Joint
While the Navy’s and Air Force’s next tactical jet might share some capabilities, a Navy official says, they won’t share an airframe.
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