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Train Troops to Use Social Media More Effectively
It’s a tool, like any other. We may as well know how to use it.
Madison Sargeant
December 12, 2020
Train Troops to Use Social Media More Effectively
It’s a tool, like any other. We may as well know how to use it.
Madison Sargeant
December 12, 2020
What If the Pentagon Skipped 5G?
The answer to the headaches and security risks of next-generation mobile communications just might be a technological leap past them.
Mackenzie Eaglen
May 11, 2020
Pentagon Wants To Start Testing New 5G Tech Soon
The Defense Department is about to get serious about evaluating next-gen networking gear.
Patrick Tucker
February 26, 2020
This Little-Used Area of the Electromagnetic Spectrum Might Be the Future of Battlefield Communications
If commercial 5G millimeter-wave gear can be hardened against jamming, the U.S. Army thinks it might gain a real battlefield edge.
Patrick Tucker
December 18, 2019
Weapons Makers Unveil A Herd of Robotanks— As the Army Worries about Battlefield Bandwidth
The U.S. Army is determined to field a mid-sized combat robot vehicle, but the prototypes are outstripping the datalinks that would connect them.
Patrick Tucker
October 15, 2019
A New Consensus Is Emerging On How to Handle The Risk from China’s 5G
Chinese telecom tech is invading the physical world, but Europeans and industry have strategies to contain the threat.
Patrick Tucker
April 16, 2019
Pentagon To Explore Potential of 5G — and Its Made-in-China Hazards
Planned experiments will test the emerging wireless technology, even as leaders fret publicly about supply-chain risks.
Marcus Weisgerber
March 25, 2019
The Military Now Has Tooth Mics For Invisible, Hands-Free Radio Calls
The future of battlefield communications is resting comfortably near your back gums.
Patrick Tucker
September 10, 2018
The Dead Metaphors of National Security
To grapple with today’s complex security environment, we must first think about it realistically. Our terminology — not our technology — is key.
Josh Kerbel
May 1, 2018
China Has A Breakthrough in Spy-Proof Quantum Communications
By sending quantum information several kilometers, the researchers took a big step toward the future of information security.
Patrick Tucker
November 9, 2017
US Army Seeks Internet-of-Battlefield-Things, Distributed Bot Swarms
After nearly two decades of war against technologically unsophisticated foes, the Army Research Lab is reorienting to counter China and Russia.
Patrick Tucker
July 18, 2017
The Future of Military IT: Gait Biometrics, Software Nets, and Photon Communicators
DISA director Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn talks about the tech he’s eyeing, some of which is barely out of the theoretical realm.
Patrick Tucker
June 15, 2017
Time Warfare: Threats to GPS Aren’t Just About Navigation and Positioning
The U.S. military needs to get serious about assuring access to precision timing.
Blake McMahon and Tom Hawkes
May 10, 2017
How to Stop the Next Viral Jihadi Video
A new software tool could help social-media companies shut down the distribution of violent ISIS recruiting videos.
Patrick Tucker
June 17, 2016
The Military Wants a Privacy Firewall for Disaster Response
A new tool to strip personal information from tweets and social media could help troops zero in on trouble spots.
Patrick Tucker
April 19, 2016
Carter Watches PBS on Fridays, and Other Bombshells from His Email
SecDef's redacted private messages reveal — gasp! — Washington insiders asking about jobs for friends and challenge coins for their kids.
Marcus Weisgerber
March 27, 2016
China Is Watching the FBI-Apple Battle Very Closely
Even if the U.S. government abandons its insistence on a backdoored iPhone, Beijing may not.
Adam Segal
March 4, 2016
How the Media Aids and Abets the Benghazi Committee
The investigation is functioning as partisan oppo-research organization, and the press is enabling it.
James Fallows
, The Atlantic
October 18, 2015
Just 1 Out of Every 7 Emails The Pentagon Gets Is Legit
Of 700 million emails sent to DOD accounts monthly, about 98 million are actually “good emails,” an official says.
Frank R. Konkel
September 24, 2015
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The Intel Community Needs A Better Media Strategy
As press watchdogs stiffen their spines, intel agencies must decide what secrets truly need protecting and why.
Aki Peritz and Kevin Strouse
August 18, 2015
How Violent ISIS Videos Help Mobilize New Recruits
Aug. 19 will mark one year since James Foley’s execution was posted on YouTube. Such videos offer, to certain minds, a paean to masculinity and a path out of powerlessness.
Roxanne L. Euben
August 13, 2015
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