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How the US Air Force is Rapidly Mobilizing For Cyber War
New ideas about defense and new tables of organization are reshaping the service’s ideas about battle.
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Tomorrow’s Downed Pilots May Be Rescued by an Osprey-Black Hawk Team
A U.S. Air Force chief of staff who was shot down over Serbia has reenergized the debate over the best way to do combat search and rescue.
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The Air Force Is Starting to Think About Its Next Strike Aircraft
Service leaders are laying groundwork for a new strike capability — even as they work to unground their F-35s.
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Sikorsky’s New Ace in the Hole: Lockheed’s Skunk Works
The newly acquired helicopter maker is tapping into Lockheed Martin’s famed advanced tech division.
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Tomorrow’s Laser-Armed Helicopter Drones
First come powerful generators, then autonomy, then directed energy, says LightningStrike maker.
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The Man in Charge of Stopping the Next Snowden
Moving past the summer of 2013 has proven difficult for the intelligence community.
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The Military’s Tech Matchmaker Is Getting Ready to Open Its Wallet
Carter says DIUx will also get a new Austin branch, its third after Boston and Silicon Valley.
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The NSA Is Using Bomb-Defusing Software to Grow the Next Generation of Analysts
This year’s codebreaking contest has a twist: the college teams must remotely locate and neutralize a roadside bomb.
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Will NSA and CyberCom Split?
This isn’t the first time officials have considered dividing the agencies’ leadership or even putting civilians in charge.
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Special Operators Are Getting a New Autonomous Tactical Drone
A prototype microdrone that maps a building’s rooms will change the urban battlefield.
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These Swarming Drones Launch from a Fighter Jet’s Flare Dispensers
The Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office is building — and rapidly improving — them with commercial parts and 3D-printed fuselages.
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The US Has Its First Cybersecurity Director
Gregory Touhill, a retired Air Force one-star, will be the first to hold the job, which was created in the wake of the OPM hack.
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How Will Terrorists Use the Internet of Things? The Justice Department Is Trying to Figure That Out
As the business of connected devices explodes, DOJ joins other agencies in evaluating the national-security risks.
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One of America's Spy Agencies Will Test Sentiment Analysis to Help Sniff Out Insider Threats
If the one-year pilot program is successful, a ‘full and open competition’ could follow to broaden the software’s use inside the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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A New AI Learns Through Observation Alone: What That Means for Drone Surveillance
The military spends hundreds of man hours on intelligence collection and image analysis. Drones that could learn about human behavior with less human guidance could cut that time considerably.
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The Military’s Supermarket Goes Shopping for Better Encryption
Computer-generated passwords are stored beside personal and financial data. Security should be tighter than that, a report from the Defense Commissary Agency says.
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5 Steps To Make U.S. Elections Less Hackable
As shadowy actors work to hack U.S. elections, a few simple steps could make electronic voting more secure, says one expert.
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To Counter Russia’s Cyber Prowess, US Army Launches Rapid-Tech Office
The battle for eastern Ukraine shows how the pace of innovation in electronic warfare is picking up.
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For F-35's First Deployment, Marines Plan 'School of Hard Knocks'
Real-world missions will help the Corps chart its future with the plane, says the leader of the Marines’ Combat Development Command.
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