Military

Feds collar suspected sanctions-busting Russian smugglers of US tech

Parts sent to Moscow allegedly found on Ukrainian battlefields

Security01 Nov 2023 | 15

$350B DoD nuke makeover efforts lack oversight, say inspectors

Still, it's not like it's a matter of life and death, is it?

Public Sector30 Oct 2023 | 18

US govt talks up $2B X-ray photobooth to check its nuke weapon sims are right

Sub-critical plutonium implosion to be snapped on nanosecond scale

HPC09 Oct 2023 | 18

DoJ: Ex-soldier tried to pass secrets to China after seeking a 'subreddit about spy stuff'

FBI agent claims sergeant with top clearance offered access to DoD tech systems

Security09 Oct 2023 | 50

UK splashes £4B to dive into next-gen nuclear submarines

Detailed design and long lead contracts signed off for SSN-AUKUS project

Public Sector03 Oct 2023 | 23

US military F-35 readiness problems highlighted in aptly timed report

This surely can't be related to that crash debacle over the weekend, right?

Offbeat22 Sep 2023 | 26

If anyone finds an $80M F-35 stealth fighter, please call the Pentagon

Updated US military enlists public to help track down missing jet

Offbeat18 Sep 2023 | 77

NixCon drops Palmer Luckey's AI combat drone maker Anduril as sponsor due to military ties

NixOS event organizers say community unhappy about funding from Pentagon contractor

AI + ML08 Sep 2023 | 8

Attackers accessed UK military data through high-security fencing firm's Windows 7 rig

Irony, not barbed wire, cuts the deepest

Cyber-crime04 Sep 2023 | 70

Let's give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army

Black Mirror? Never heard of it

Bootnotes30 Aug 2023 | 34

Getting meshy: BAE scores £89m deal with MoD to build new battlefield network

It'll replace the old one, also built by BAE, on a very tight schedule: The old junk's due to be ripped out in 2026

Networks25 Aug 2023 | 17

Pentagon dumps $1.5B more into military sat network that's already slipping behind

One might say this program is truly up in the air

Networks22 Aug 2023 | 4

Lockheed's ARRW hypersonic missile: Sometimes it flies, sometimes it just tries

US Air Force keeping mum on results of weekend test

Science22 Aug 2023 | 16

US Space Force finally creates targeting unit – better late than never, right?

No rush on this seemingly vital component of defense, guys

Science17 Aug 2023 | 14

Indian armed forces gives Windows its marching orders, but only for desktop warriors

Opinion I am become Tux, destroyer of warez

OSes14 Aug 2023 | 40

US military battling cyber threats from within and without

As if attacks from China weren't enough, one of the Air Force's own has reportedly gone rogue

Security01 Aug 2023 | 9

US Air Force burns more money on electric flying taxis

Waiting on that thumbs up from the FAA

Bootnotes31 Jul 2023 | 14

Aliens crash landed on Earth – and Uncle Sam is covering it up, this guy tells Congress

Poll Men in Black snatched Little Green Men's spacecraft, allegedly

Science27 Jul 2023 | 322

US Air Force's Angry Kitten turns Reaper drone into fierce feline of electronic warfare

Hardware from a decade ago? More like grumpy old mog

Offbeat21 Jul 2023 | 21

AI weapons need a safe back door for human control

China spends twice as much on AI as everyone else put together: expert witness

AI + ML09 Jun 2023 | 40

VA, Oracle's Cerner agree on renegotiated health records contract

Long, costly wars not the only thing US government good at getting stuck in

Databases17 May 2023 | 4

VA's Cerner EHR platform fails to deliver medications to veterans

Messy system is forcing VA pharmacies to work overtime to deal with poor IT, committee told

Databases11 May 2023 | 4

Here's what the US Army picked for soldier-worn tactical USB hubs

That kit ain't for chargin' your iPhone, Private!

On-Prem08 May 2023 | 36

How Sandia hopes to accelerate US hypersonic weapons development

You want this to go faster? OK, send in the contractors. That'll do the trick

Science01 May 2023 | 10

Future of warfare is AI, retired US Army general warns

RSA Conference Imagine fighting swarms – swarms – of autonomous planes

Spotlight on RSA27 Apr 2023 | 36

Proliferation of AI weapons among non-state actors 'could be impossible to stop'

Governments also have no theory on how nefarious groups might behave using the tech

AI + ML21 Apr 2023 | 24

Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 surprisingly still a thing, will get Windows 11 treatment

This is, we're told, a good thing

Personal Tech17 Apr 2023 | 3

Intel ships multi-die chips ahead of schedule – to the US military

What else when you have a customer that will only accept these three words: Sir, yes, sir

Public Sector07 Apr 2023 | 8

DoD taps Apple exec to lead commercial tech adoption unit

Doug Beck definitely won't be transforming the US military into the iArmy, right?

Defense Tech Week05 Apr 2023 | 1

Think tank: Chips Act is great, but US should look at biotech supply chain too

The White House and DoD move to bolster domestic biomanufacturing

Public Sector04 Apr 2023 | 4

US pushes next phase of satellite missile defense system

Agency asks for industry input into medium Earth orbit system

Defense Tech Week04 Apr 2023 | 2

US Air Force scares up $75.5M for ad-hoc missile silo network

At a planned 25k square miles, it's said to be largest net of its kind yet

Networks07 Mar 2023 | 7

Kremlin claims Ukraine hackers behind fake missile strike alerts

Ten cities panic after emergency systems start Putin out warnings of an impending attack

Security23 Feb 2023 | 71

Nations agree to curb enthusiasm for military AI before it destroys the world

Some rules and whatnot about taking responsibility, tackling unreliability would be ace, yes

AI + ML17 Feb 2023 | 30

US military spends weekend shooting down Useless Floating Objects

You wait years for unidentified aerial phenomena then three turn up at once

Offbeat13 Feb 2023 | 61

US Department of Energy solicits AMD's help with nuke sims

Chips were just Epyc, but now they're the bomb and Intel's inside the tent too

Systems31 Jan 2023 | 6

China shops around US bans to power its nuclear weapons research program

Entity List proves to be a non-entity once Beijing's buyers get busy

Systems31 Jan 2023 | 27

Lockheed Martin demos 50kW anti-aircraft frickin' laser beam

Updated Looks like a reboot of SWIV

Science26 Jan 2023 | 108

Seven smuggled US military tech for Moscow, say Feds

Nuclear, hypersonic hardware is one thing, but you can probably keep the quantum computer stuff, Vlad

Cyber-crime14 Dec 2022 | 5

US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber that'll fly the unfriendly skies

'Digital bomber' will bring 'peace through deterrence'

Security03 Dec 2022 | 185

Israel sets robotic target-tracking turrets in the West Bank

Military says they'll save lives on both sides as tensions escalate

Security18 Nov 2022 | 89

What's that, Lassie? Boston Dynamics is suing its robot dog tech rival?

The way your computerized canine walks down the stairs looks familiar to us, claims MIT spinoff

Legal15 Nov 2022 | 20

Waferscale, meet atomic scale: Uncle Sam to test Cerebras chips in nuke weapon sims

Thermonuclear warheads, so hot right now

AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 6

Microsoft HoloLens proves to be a headache for US soldiers

Eyestrain, nausea not entirely dealt with, military brass remain committed to AR

Personal Tech13 Oct 2022 | 18

Lockheed Martin taps silicon photonics tech to build better weapons of war

Let the battle against latency begin

Systems13 Oct 2022 | 3

Inmarsat gets $1b from US Navy for 10 years of satellite data

Outsourcing national defence didn't work so well in Ukraine

Off-Prem13 Oct 2022 | 3

Top of the Pops: US authorities list the 20 hottest vulns that China's hackers love to hit

Microsoft has four entries on list of shame, Log4j tops the chart

Security07 Oct 2022 | 4

If someone weaponizes our robots, we'll be really, really sad, says Boston Dynamics

Maybe finally a good use for DRM, eh? Preventing armed modifications

Science06 Oct 2022 | 73

NSA super-leaker Edward Snowden granted Russian citizenship

He always wanted to fight in the military – are his draft papers on the way?

Bootnotes26 Sep 2022 | 77

Spotted at industry confab: Quadcopter equipped with Brit missiles Ukraine is so fond of

Updated BAE falls over itself to stress it's only a hypothetical serving suggestion

Offbeat26 Sep 2022 | 19

US Army drone crashes hours ahead of breaking flight duration record

Airbus's solar-powered Zephyr nosedives after more than 64 days aloft

AI + ML23 Aug 2022 | 52

Russian military uses Chinese drones and bots in combat, over manufacturers' protests

Testimonials from Russian generals not welcomed by DJI or Unitree Robotics

Security17 Aug 2022 | 46

US Space Development Agency invests $1.3b in missile tracking satellites

Northrop Grumman, L3Harris Technologies to build the 28-satellite constellation for warning, tracking

Science19 Jul 2022 | 5

Behold this drone-dropping rifle with two-mile range

Confuses rather than destroys unmanned aerials to better bring back intel, says Ukrainian designer

Bootnotes27 Jun 2022 | 39

Nothing says 2022 quite like this remote-controlled machine gun drone

GNOM is small, but packs a mighty 7.62mm punch

Edge + IoT16 Jun 2022 | 44

Beijing needs the ability to 'destroy' Starlink, say Chinese researchers

Paper authors warn Elon Musk's 2,400 machines could be used offensively

Security25 May 2022 | 132