Science & Tech
In The War of 2050, The Robots Call The Shots
An Army-sponsored workshop on the future of war produces a mashed-up vision of swarmbots, cyborgs, and technology run wild.
Business
Why Lone Wolf Attacks Are So Hard To Predict
Events like the shootings in Tennessee show the possibilities and limitations of predictive analytics.
Science & Tech
How Antimatter Could Stop Iran From Cheating On the Nuclear Deal
Advanced particle detectors could be the key to ensuring the success of the agreement.
Threats
To Prevent Insider Threats, DOD Must First Define ‘Normal’
The Pentagon thinks it can build an automated system to predict and prevent future Fort Hood-style attacks. But it’s a problem as big as big data itself.
Science & Tech
What Will Happen To You When You Storm a US Military Checkpoint?
The military has put a lot of effort into making checkpoint encounters less lethal, through the application of some bizarre-sounding technologies.
Science & Tech
How Technology Will Help Enforce the Iran Deal...And Help Iran Cheat On It
The UN’s nuclear monitors have great new sensors, but eavesdropping gear and radioactive residue will make their job harder than ever.
Ideas
What the Fighter of the Future Will Look Like
The next 15 years will change troops’ gear in virtually every respect, from body armor to communications to robot interactions.
Threats
Here’s the Biggest Difference Between US and Chinese Military Policy
What their public strategy documents say about the world’s leading military power and its up-and-coming rival.
Science & Tech
The Best Way To Stick It To Dictators, Help Dissidents, and Boost Privacy
It makes the Internet safer and allows people living under autocracy to get around government censors. But the FBI wants to break it.
Science & Tech
How To Break Into the CIA’s Cloud on Amazon
Looking to steal America’s spy data from Amazon? Hope you’re up for a challenge.
Science & Tech
Someone Just Leaked The Price List for Cyberwar
A controversial cyber arms dealer gets hacked, revealing sales to the US military and less savory customers around the world.
Business
Neller Tapped as Marine Corps Commandant
Lt. Gen. Robert Neller now awaits Senate confirmation as the latest addition to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s national security team at the Pentagon.
Ideas
What Fiction Can Tell You About a Future War With China
Strategists Peter Singer and August Cole’s new novel offers a glimpse into startling real-life U.S. military vulnerabilities.
Science & Tech
China Is the Leading Suspect in OPM Hack, US Says
The intelligence community thinks they know who stole the data. That doesn’t change much.
Science & Tech
NSA Chief: Don’t Assume China Hacked OPM
Attribution, which came so quickly when North Korea hacked Sony, is proving trickier when China stands accused.
Business
Pentagon Rushing to Open Space-War Center To Counter China, Russia
Prepping for war in orbit, the military is honing tactics and building a new center to coordinate defense and development.
Science & Tech
Robots Won't Be Taking These Military Jobs Anytime Soon
A chief Air Force scientist says that there’s no way to automate drone-based intelligence collection without a major technological breakthrough.
Business
America’s Drone Pilot Shrink Says They Need a Vacation From War
The men and women fighting America’s drone war can’t go home, no matter where they are.
Business
What The Pentagon Has To Do To Recruit Silicon Valley's Nerds
Defense Department and national security political leaders are eager to attract tech minds. But are they willing to change enough?
Threats