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It’s Now Possible To Telepathically Communicate with a Drone Swarm
DARPA’s new research in brain-computer interfaces is allowing a pilot to control multiple simulated aircraft at once.
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The US Navy Is Hacking Wetsuits for Arctic Warfare
A new wetsuit treatment could allow troops to operate in frigid water for far longer.
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Russia, US Are In a Military Exoskeleton Race
A look at the Iron Man-like dreams and power-starved realities of dueling technology programs.
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Austin, Texas, Just Became the US Army’s Silicon Valley
The service is making a big bet that getting closer to tech startups will help deter future adversaries.
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How the US Is Preparing to Match Chinese and Russian Technology Development
The Pentagon adds some numbers and details to the laundry list of priorities.
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Ukraine Startup Building Drones with Grenade Launchers
A prototype Ukrainian drone has a grenade launcher. Still unclear: how it’s going to get past Russia’s jammers.
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Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract
The battle for the Defense Department’s $10 billion war cloud is getting a lot more interesting.
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Hackers Find Scores of Vulnerabilities in Marine Corps Websites
The Pentagon’s latest bug-bounty contest continues a successful run of hack-the-military efforts.
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Russian Military Spy Software is on Hundreds of Thousands of Home Routers
In May, the Justice Department told Americans to reboot their routers. But there's more to do — and NSA says it's up to device makers and the public.
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Flaw in Some Satellite Communication Terminals Can Expose US Troops’ Location
Vulnerabilities in certain brands of communications terminals can be used to access GPS data on forward-deployed troops.
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The Future Airman is a Hacker
Air Force recruiters will prize computer skills more highly, while the service will encourage airmen to experiment with their own solutions.
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Who’s Leading the Western Response to Russia’s Warbots? Estonia
A European leader in robotic autonomy turns its attention to the battlefield.
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How Russian Hackers Amplified the Seth Rich Conspiracy Until it Reached Donald Trump and the CIA
A new report claims that Russian hackers altered dates in stolen documents to frame the DNC staffer for the theft.
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Surveillance Cameras Will Soon Divine Your Personality from Eye Movements
Machine-learning techniques promise to make biometric data far more useful for intelligence gathering.
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Kremlin Hackers Take Aim at the Swiss Lab That’s Working the Skripal Poisoning Case
The group that attacked Ukraine's power grid is phishing a chemical-weapons lab critical to the Skripal case.
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Satellite Imagery + Social Media = A New Way to Spot Emerging Nuclear Threats
A research team is training computers to find and fuse clues from wildly different rivers of digital data.
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Pentagon Creates ‘Do Not Buy’ List of Russian, Chinese Software
Increasingly alarmed at foreign hacking, DOD and intelligence officials are racing to educate the military and defense contractors.
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China Is Still Stealing America’s Business Secrets, US Officials Say
The 2015 agreement between Xi and Obama produced only a lull in Beijing’s economic espionage.
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This Stealthy Drone May Be The Future of Russian Fighter Jets
Russian industry sources called this heavy armed stealth drone a prototype for their sixth-generation aircraft.
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