Science & Tech
How Will the Military Use 5G? A New Drone Experiment Offers Clues
High-speed networking promises to help bring AI to bear on floods of battlefield sensor data.
Defense Systems
Oversight Of Nuclear-Weapons Contractors' Cyber Practices Has Been ‘Inconsistent’: GAO
The National Nuclear Security Administration incompletely implemented some cyber practices and didn’t have clear knowledge about what its subcontractors were doing, the watchdog agency reported.
Threats
Are You 'Choice-Paralyzed' About Protecting Your Critical Infrastructure? NSA Wants to Help
Simplifying decisions about hardening industrial control systems is the aim of new guidance from the NSA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Defense Systems
After 5 Full-Throttle Years, Kessel Run Is Settling In for the Long Haul
The new leader of the Air Force “software factory” wants data and architecture standards that stand the tests of time.
Science & Tech
DOD Must Put Software at the Core of Its Operations, Report Says
The CIA's chief technology officer and the former head of the Air Force's Project Maven want to yank the Pentagon out of the industrial age into the digital age.
Defense Systems
Sharing Secrets Has Been ‘Effective’ Against Russia, But the Tactic Has Limits, CIA Chief Says
It’s just one of the new areas for a spy agency grappling with tech-driven changes.
Threats
Iranian Hacker Group Posed as Journalists to Hunt Dissidents
Group spent weeks trying to fool specific targets with intricate appeals—including U.S campaign staff.
Defense Systems
Army Updates Cyber Training After Some Graduates Weren’t Ready for Their Jobs
New classes and updated curriculum reflect evolving threats and lessons from the Ukraine war.
Policy
Almost No One Has Been Hired Through DHS' Much-Hyped Cyber Talent Program
With a month left in the fiscal year, program is 146 new hires short of its 150-person goal.
Policy
US, Israel Team Up to Fight Ransomware
The Treasury Department and Ministry of Finance extend a year-old, tech-centric cybersecurity pact.
Threats
CISA's Cyber Info-Sharing Program Didn't Always Deliver, Watchdog Says
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is supposed to give more than 300 agencies and firms the info they need to fix vulnerabilities. That hasn't always happened, the DHS inspector general found.
Threats
CISA Prepares for Future Election Threats
As 2022 midterms approach, concerns are rising about misinformation and targeted harassment of election officials.
Science & Tech
An Experiment Showed that the Military Must Change Its Cybersecurity Approach
The Defense Department’s current “checklist” approach can’t keep its networks safe.
Ideas
The US Military Should Red-Team Open Source Code
The Pentagon can reduce threats and increase security by finding and fixing bugs lurking in its software.
Defense Systems
DOD Failing to Track Progress on Military Alternatives to GPS, GAO Says
A new report says military leaders don’t have enough information to make crucial decisions about ongoing efforts to develop alternatives to the Global Positioning System.
Threats
New ‘Influence Triad’ Will Fuse SOF, Cyber, and Space Command Satellite Intelligence
Information warfare cells, where space units and SOCOM work side by side, will be dispersed throughout combatant commands.
Defense Systems
Cyber Ambassador Pick Wants to Bring 'Coherence' to Tech Diplomacy Efforts
Nathaniel Fick, the former Marine and head of Center for a New American Security, also wants more deterrence efforts in cyberspace.
Defense Systems
Faster Attacks Have Cyber Command Looking to Add All-Too-Scarce Experts
“I think the only way that I'm going to be able to do that in the near term is to grow the workforce myself,” command official says.
Defense Systems