Emerging Tech
The Robots Taking Your Job Could Get You Killed
Automating processes at chemical and pharmaceutical plants could save money, but at what cost to safety?
Cybersecurity
Hacker Cracks Satellite Communications Network
Satellite tracking of people and objects was supposed to make the world safer. If only it was secure.
Modernization
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.
Digital Government
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 to do so?
Digital Government
How Wi-Fi Will Power Tomorrow’s Battle Gear
Cords and batteries are a burden on the battlefield. Will future devices be powered by radio waves… from space?
Cybersecurity
How OPM Can Find Its Missing Data on the Dark Web
The best way to recover from breaches is to assume that they’re inevitable — and start looking for your data before you know it’s gone.
Digital Government
Special Operators Are Using Rapid DNA Readers
Conducting a midnight SEAL raid on a terrorist compound? Positive DNA identification is just 90 minutes away.
Digital Government
Navy’s New Binoculars Can Identify You From 700 Feet Away
Collecting on-the-ground intelligence may have become a bit safer.
Digital Government
Here’s What the New Tesla Battery Means for the Military
Elon Musk’s big announcement could revolutionize energy use for U.S. consumers—and that could be its biggest effect on national security.
Digital Government
The Air Force Wants You To Build Its Next Drone Engine
The Pentagon hopes the next Predator is in someone's garage.
Digital Government
How the Pentagon Could Soon Share Americans’ Data With Foreign Militaries
The new cyber strategy could provide allies with Americans’ information gathered under proposed legislation.
Digital Government
The Army Is Testing Handheld Ray Guns
Fittingly, these rifle-sized weapons would gun for other electronics.
Digital Government
Army Wants Robot Four-Wheelers and Decepticons
The service is outlining a multidecade plan for autonomic and robotic systems.
Digital Government
US Military to Deploy Robotic Ghost Ships This Fall
An autonomous sub-hunting ship passed an important technological milestone, and the oceans may never be the same.
Digital Government
This Duck Drone Could Spy on Enemy Subs
But building a flying-and-swimming robot is harder than nature makes it look.
Digital Government
The Military's New Bid to Protect Your Data
DARPA is tackling online privacy. But can you trust them?
Digital Government
How the Military Will Fight ISIS on the Dark Web
ISIS already is on the Dark Web raising money through Bitcoin. The military is on the Dark Web, too.
Cybersecurity
Why Obama's Cybersecurity Plan May Not Make Americans Safer
The president's proposal promises to anonymize data. Experts don't think that will help.
Artificial Intelligence
Pentagon Wants ‘Real Roadmap’ To Artificial Intelligence
Should we be afraid of AI? The military wants a real answer by the end of 2015.
Digital Government
Dallas Hospital Had the Ebola Screening Machine That the Military Is Using in Africa
The Dallas hospital had an Ebola screening machine, but it was for research purposes only.
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