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Coast Guard Needs Fresh IT, People to Keep Networks Secure
The service’s head of Cyber Command outlines his strategy for updating old systems and getting personnel to rethink cybersecurity.
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Russia Claims It Now Has Lasers To Shoot Satellites
A defense source tells Russian media that military engineers have advanced work on the next big anti-satellite weapon.
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Pentagon R&D Funding Fell $4 Billion Short of Experts' Recommendations Last Year
The Defense Department spent 2.3 percent of its budget toward research, well under its own 3-percent guideline.
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White House, Boeing In Final Stages of New Air Force One Deal
President Trump and Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg met in White House this week to break gridlock on price of new presidential planes.
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North Korea Is Upping Its Offensive Cyber Operations
As Pyongyang runs out of money for missile tests, expect more hacking.
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TSA Wants Your Face To Be Your Passport — But There's One Big Problem With That
With current technology, ethnic minorities and non-American travelers could find biometric identification to be much slower and prone to error.
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Bigger, Faster, Stronger: China’s Ever-Evolving Military Tech
China’s progress hasn’t gone unnoticed.
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How to Inoculate the Public Against Fake News
When people were given a toolbox of deceptive techniques and told to “play Russian troll,” they learned to reject disinformation.
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International Hackers Find 106 Bugs in US Air Force Websites
One bug discovered during Hack the Air Force 2.0 earned $12,500—the largest federal bounty paid out so far.
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White House Threatens ‘Consequences’ for 2017 Russian Cyber Attack
In an unusual public statement, the White House fingered Russia and said it would respond with unspecified “international consequences" to NotPetya.
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Here’s What Invisible Brain Weapons Did to US Diplomatic Workers in Cuba
The long-awaited report names no culprits and fails even to determine how the damage was done. But it documents real, long-lasting damage.
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The US Air Force Is Giving Its Anti-Drone Efforts a Silicon Valley Twist
A new kind of investor-innovation partnership may help speed emerging technology to the front lines.
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Trump Has Not Asked Us To Stop Russian Election Meddling, Intelligence Chiefs Testify
The intelligence community agrees Russia will try to influence the 2018 midterms, but they’re less clear on how to stop the Kremlin.
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Pentagon Requesting $66M For Laser Drones to Shoot Down North Korean Missiles
The Missile Defense Agency is rushing to put more solutions in the field and trying to put past failures behind them.
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Chinese Police Are Wearing Sunglasses That Can Recognize Faces
The devices have already helped nab seven fugitives related to major criminal cases, and 26 others who were traveling with fake identities.
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US Army Now Holding Drills With Ground Robots That Shoot
Last year saw a historic first: an exercise in which an unmanned vehicle provided live covering fire for American troops.
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DHS Needs More Cybersecurity Workers—It Just Doesn’t Know Where Or What Kind
The government’s primary cybersecurity agency is missing congressional deadlines to identify and categorize its cyber workforce, a congressional watchdog said.
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State Dept. Reverses Course, Plans to Launch Cyber and Digital Economy Bureau
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson earlier shuttered a cyber coordinator’s office with similar duties.
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DOD Issued a $7 Million Cloud Support Contract To a Company With One Employee
The Defense Department awarded a sole-source contract to Eagle Harbor Solutions, an Alaska-based small business with a single employee, to consult in its major cloud acquisition.
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