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The Video Game That Could Shape the Future of War
The U.S. Army is developing a new way to test technologies and tactics—but first they have to get tens of thousands of soldiers to play it.
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Trump Administration Plans a New Cybersecurity Strategy
The strategy will be based on the main elements of the president’s May executive order.
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This Technology Could Help Solve IED Detection — And Airport Security Too
New radio-wave sensors are designed to suss out hidden explosives —whether in car bombs or carry-on laptops.
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How US Special Operators Helped Take Down Joseph Kony’s Army With Tailored Messages
For six years, an elite Army team team waged psychological warfare against a murderous warlord. Here’s how they won.
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Armed Ground Robots Could Join the Ukrainian Conflict Next Year
At AUSA, officials showed off a robot shaped by the hard lessons of hybrid war.
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How the US Army is Preparing to Fight Hybrid War in 2030
The future is little teams operating on land, in the air, and online, taking on enemies that haven’t declared themselves.
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US Army Chief Announces Major Reorganization For How Army Develops, Buys Weapons
Gen. Milley says Army 'must regain our overmatch and competitive advantage against emerging threats.'
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The FBI’s Cyber Strategy: Shame The Hackers
The agency is trying to take a more preventive, and not a reactive, security strategy.
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Pentagon: We’ll Keep Buying Software That Russian Spies have Looked Through
The U.S. military will still buy consumer-off-the-shelf products from several tech companies that allowed Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, an intelligence outfit, to intimately probe.
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North Korea Is Testing Not Just Bombs, But the Entire Global Nuclear Monitoring System
It is a miracle of statecraft and science that this collaborative international infrastructure has actually come into being.
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The White House's Cyber Tool Wish List
Acting Federal Chief Information Security Officer Grant Schneider pushed for tools that are easy to use but can share threat data in real time.
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Get Lasers Into the Field Faster, Lawmakers Tell the Pentagon
The Senate’s version of the annual defense bill provides $200 million for rapid prototyping of directed energy weapons.
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General Motors Wants to Disrupt the Military Truck Market
Building on its hydrogen fuel cell-powered pickup truck for the Army, the automaker will soon unveil a self-powered mobile chassis.
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DHS Forms Election Security Task Force
The new task force will draw resources from across the Department of Homeland Security, including intelligence analysis.
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DARPA-Funded Radar Lets Planes See Through Smoke and Clouds
A promising approach to a decades-old quandary: how to get a clear field of view to the ground?
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The Folly of Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Some soothsayers say they boost deterrence. But the point of deterrence is to have no mushroom clouds, not new, tailor-made ones.
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Soon, DHS Will Have Eyes on Computer Vulnerabilities Across the Government
A governmentwide software dashboard is launching this month.
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Social Media is ‘First Tool’ of 21st-Century Warfare, US Lawmaker Says
And buying Facebook ads is much cheaper than an F-35 fighter jet, said Sen. Mark Warner.
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If North Korea Fires an ICBM, the US Might Have to Shoot It Down Over Russia
Missile-defense physics may require interceptors to fly into ‘the teeth of the Russian early warning net.’
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