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Trump’s New Missile Policy Relies Heavily on Largely Unproven Technologies
New adversary missiles are to be met by a host of technologies that, by and large, don’t exist yet.
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Pentagon to Study Putting Anti-Missile Laser Weapons in Space
The long-anticipated missile defense review shies away from a full-scale push — which critics say underlines the idea’s folly.
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Ukraine Is Buying New Combat Drones…From Turkey
The skies over Eastern Ukraine are becoming more crowded as Kiev looks to Ankara for weapons.
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The Pentagon Has More than 250 Cyber Gaps in Its Networks, Watchdog Says
The Defense Department has a lot of work to do to remedy some years-old cyber issues.
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How AI Will Find You In the Crowd, Without Facial Recognition
New deep learning methods tested on video footage groups of animals could be a surveillance hit.
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Russia’s Special Operators Are Getting Futuristic Mini-Subs
Originally designed for oil exploration, the six bathyspheres are to arrive by 2022.
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Report: Iran Is Likely Setting Stage for International Phishing Campaign
Hackers have been methodically gaining access to domain name services that allow malware-laden emails to look like they come from legitimate organizations.
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DARPA Thinks Insect Brains Might Hold the Secret to Next-Gen AI
They’re small, efficient and capable of basic reasoning, and researchers want artificial intelligence tools to do the same.
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Russia: Expect a National AI Roadmap by Midyear
Moscow is starting to put financial and logistical muscle behind its efforts to develop artificial intelligence.
Ideas
Why China’s Military Wants to Beat the US to a Next-Gen Cell Network
For Beijing, the race to 5G has always been linked to its national strategy for military-civil fusion.
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Pentagon Seeks a List of Ethical Principles for Using AI in War
An advisory board is drafting guidelines that may help shape worldwide norms for military artificial intelligence — and woo Silicon Valley to defense work.
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The FBI is Trying Amazon’s Facial-Recognition Software
The software allows the FBI to go through video surveillance footage much faster than agents can.
Policy
Goodbye, Mattis. Goodbye, Syria. Hello, 2019
Dramatic shifts abound as Trump puts US military’s war plans in doubt, Democrats resurge in Congress, and the Pentagon gets a new boss.
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US Spies Want to Know How to Spot Compromised AI
What if you were training an AI, and an adversary slipped a few altered images into its study set?
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The Pentagon Doesn’t Know All the Software on Its Networks—And That’s a Problem
The Defense Department faces “unnecessary” risk without a complete software inventory, according to the agency’s inspector general.
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US Army Narrows Search For Light Tank to Two Companies
General Dynamics and BAE Systems will each build 12 prototypes of an up-to-40-ton armored vehicle.
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Inspectors Find Big Cyber Vulnerabilities in US Missile Defense System
The managers of the nation’s missile defense system aren’t implementing basic cybersecurity practices, according to a new inspector report.
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The US Is Buying Phone Hacking Tools for Ghana’s Police
The State Department wants Ghanaian law enforcement to be able to access Android, Windows, and BlackBerry devices used in transnational crime.
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Project Maven Overseer Will Lead Pentagon’s New AI Center
DOD rewards three-star with the lead on its new AI-development center.
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