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US Navy Gunners Are Testing A Wearable Heads-Up Display
A service lab has turned a lieutenant’s brainstorm into a testable prototype dubbed the GunnAR augmented-reality headset.
Threats
Trump’s Special Ops Pick Says Terror Drones Might Soon Reach the US from Africa. How Worried Should We Be?
Technological advancement could produce ocean-spanning consumer UAVs. But extremists won’t necessarily bother with them.
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DIUx Wins Support — and More Cash — from Trump’s Pentagon
The vice chair of the Joint Chiefs touted an effort to track North Korean missile launcher, while the military’s new weapons buyer called it a good model for developing and acquiring capabilities.
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Advisory Group Prepping ‘Moonshot’ Plan to Fight Botnets
DHS has commissioned two reports describing what might be done about networks of compromised computers.
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US Army Looking to Integrate Network Soldiers with Tactical Units
Brigades are working out various ideas at training centers, says the head of the service’s Cyber Command.
Threats
The US Must Fix ‘A Failure of Deterrence’ in Cyber: Panel
Bold action is required to convince bad actors that they must stop, says former SecDef chief of staff.
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How Will The Pentagon Create Its AIs? The Algorithmic-Warfare Team Is Charting a Path
Over the next 36 months, an algorithmic-warfare team will draw up a model for splitting the work between government and industry.
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Tomorrow Soldier: How The Military Is Altering the Limits of Human Performance
Breakthroughs in biometric science mean future troops will fight with weapons that understand them — inside and out.
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Government Warms to Continuous Monitoring of Personnel With Clearances
Software that scours public records for potential red flags gains traction as officials wrestle with a serious security clearance backlog.
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For Sale: Artificial Intelligence That Teaches Itself
An AI startup with dozens of aviation-industry customers sets its sights on the US military.
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The NSA Confronts a Problem of Its Own Making
Recent cyberattacks show what happens when America’s secret-keepers can’t keep their secrets.
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What's the 'Risk' in China's Investments in US Artificial Intelligence? New Bill Aims to Find Out
Senator's proposal to give feds new powers protect an American technological advantage has more than a few critics.
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Anti-Terrorist Technology Has a New Target: Immigrants
In a trend begun under Obama, the use of gear designed for foreign battlefields is increasingly coming home.
Ideas
The US Army Urgently Needs a Modern Air-Defense Control System
It’s got one under development, dubbed IBCS. It’s delayed, over budget — and vital to American security.
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CIA's Cloud is 'Pretty Close' to Invincible, CIO Says
The agency wants to operate more like commercial companies, not the government, CIA CIO John Edwards said.
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The US Government Is Still Installing Russian Software on Its PCs
The intelligence community is aghast, but the rest of the federal government keeps buying anti-virus tools from Moscow-based Kaspersky.
Ideas
Military Omnipresence: A Unifying Concept for America’s 21st-Century Fighting Edge
The Pentagon should converge its technological and doctrinal efforts towards a perpetual, networked presence that enables operations and awareness anywhere in the world.
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The Mysterious Printer Code That May Have Led the FBI to the Alleged NSA Leaker
Many color printers embed grids of dots that allow law enforcement to track every document they output.
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