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Here’s How the Pentagon Wants to Use Social Media On the Battlefield
Artificial intelligence will weave open-source and satellite data into useful intelligence in real time, the Pentagon’s No. 2 says.
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The Marines Want Mini-Missiles That Hunt for Specific Radio Signals
Signals-intelligence collection and drones are coming together in new packages for forward-deployed troops.
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Echoes of Future War: How the Fight for Mosul Will Change IED Science
Reseachers are using seismic sensors to learn about enemy weapons — and one day, even to find them as they fire.
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Someone Weaponized the Internet of Things
Friday’s internet disruption could be a taste of what’s to come when nations and non-state actors stop using the web and start attacking it.
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The Air Force Doesn’t Know How to Test Its Future Robotic Wingmen
How do you surprise a drone that can revise its strategy hundreds of times in an eyeblink?
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Denying Trump’s Denial, US Intel Chief Says There’s More Evidence of Russian Hacking
The nation’s top intelligence official says “forensic and other” evidence proves Russian election interference.
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The Apps They Carried: Software, Big Data, and the Fight for Mosul
A variety of digital tech tools aim to provide coalition forces some sense of the dangers around the next bend.
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Potemkin Jets Unlikely To Fool US Satellites
But Russia’s inflatable decoys just might tie up scarce U.S. resources long enough to make a difference.
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Pentagon Urgently Pushing Anti-Drone Tech to ISIS Fight
From mast-mounted radar to drone-jamming guns, the U.S. military’s anti-IED office is rushing to keep up.
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Data-Theft Arrest Shows that Insider Threat Remains Despite Post-Snowden Security Improvements
The recent arrest of an NSA contractor shows that the intelligence community has much further to go in stopping insider threats.
Threats
Pakistan to Obama: Kashmir Will Hurt Our Ability to Help Fight the Taliban
Pakistan wants President Obama’s help in the Kashmir conflict with India, Pakistan’s senate defense chairman will tell the National Security Council on Friday.
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Tank Maker Teams Up With Remote-Control Car Company
General Dynamics and Kairos look to bridge the gap from here to autonomy.
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GM Has Built A Stealth Truck for the Army
A new hydrogen fuel cell truck could put snipers behind enemy lines, in style.
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Beyond Big Dog: The US Army Searches for an Infantry Squadbot
Service officials have a concept of operations and a plan to deploy a cargo-carrying robot alongside dismounted soldiers in 2019. But can the acquisition system keep up?
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US Army Racing to Catch Up to Russia On Battle Drones
After watching UAVs dominate eastern Ukrainian skies, the service is seeking counter-drone tech and new families of flying robots.
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Report: Weapons AI Increasingly Replacing, Not Augmenting, Human Decision Making
A new survey of existing and planned smart weapons finds that AI is increasingly used to replace humans, not help them.
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How the US Air Force is Rapidly Mobilizing For Cyber War
New ideas about defense and new tables of organization are reshaping the service’s ideas about battle.
Policy
The Intelligence Picture Over Iraq and Syria Has Gotten Much Cloudier
The leader of Air Combat Command says new players on the battlefield are complicating the air fight against ISIS.
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Tomorrow’s Laser-Armed Helicopter Drones
First come powerful generators, then autonomy, then directed energy, says LightningStrike maker.
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