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DHS Wants Tech to Scan Your Face as You Drive to Mexico

The department is opting for a faster procurement option for the technology.

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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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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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DARPA Wants Bots To Protect Us From Cyber Adversaries

The military research unit is looking for technology and software that can identify networks that have been infiltrated—and neutralize them.

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Border State Lawmakers Propose a 'Smart' Wall

The group wants radar technology, drones and cameras to make up big chunks of Trump’s proposed border wall.

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Is That Really You Typing? New Pentagon Tech Will Know

In its quest to drop authentication cards, the Defense Department is trying out a system based on the nuances of users’ typing.

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US Intel Community Launches Face-ID Contest

Wanted: algorithms that can identify people from security-camera footage.

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Pentagon Mapmakers Want To Tap Mobile Ad Technology. Here's Why.

NGA is scoping private-sector technology at incubators in Boston, Austin and New York.

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DARPA Wants Artificial Intelligence That Doesn't Forget Everything It Knows

Biological systems don't completely freeze up when they encounter a new situation, but computers often do.

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Border-Guard Dogs to Get Health-Monitoring Collars

K-9 units will test out high-tech sensors that keep tabs on dogs’ vital signs in hot working conditions.

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DARPA Tests Dirty-Bomb Hunting Ambulances

You may not have known it, but some D.C. ambulances were searching for radiation while they drove.

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US Military Is Looking to Add AI to Its Cyber Defense

The Pentagon's outgoing chief information officer said the Pentagon has already looked into IBM’s Watson platform.

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Pentagon Needs A Chief Innovation Officer, Say Eric Schmidt, Jeff Bezos, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Friends

The move comes off a recommendation from a new innovation board chaired by Google, Amazon, and LinkedIn veterans.

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How One Intelligence Agency Is Opening Up to Startups

A invitation from the Pentagon's mapping arm could be the first of more outreach to early-stage private-sector companies.

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Got Something to Sell to the Pentagon? It's About to Get Easier

A new office just opened to help the Defense Department's high-tech agency buy more easily from first-time sellers.

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McCain to White House: If You Won’t Establish a Cyber Defense Policy, Congress Will

‘Ignoring the issue, as the White House has done, is not an option,’ said the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman on Tuesday.

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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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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.