SpaceX, Northrop Grumman reportedly working on US spy sat program LEO rising in US military: Close encounters of the recon kind Networks19 Apr 2024 |
US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet has been dogfighting with humans Video Robo-plane was made to restrain itself so as not to harm pilot or airframe AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 42
Psst, hey. It's the NSA. You want some AI security advice? You can trust us, we're the good guys AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 2
China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip Analysis Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models Systems16 Apr 2024 | 5
Space Force boss warns 'the US will lose' without help from Musk and Bezos China, Russia have muscled up, and whoever wins up there wins down here Security11 Apr 2024 | 41
US Air Force secretary so confident in AI-controlled F-16s, he'll fly in one With a pilot as backup of course – VENOM is still emerging tech AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 34
Intel inches closer to $3.5B contract to build secret fabs for Uncle Sam They can't have x86 goliath building military chips out in the open now can they? Systems07 Mar 2024 | 3
US accuses Army vet cyber-Casanova of sharing Russia-Ukraine war secrets Where better to expose confidential data than on a dating app? Security05 Mar 2024 | 17
Italy's military mulling space-based supercomputing cloud HPC satellites less about world domination, more high availability for comms HPC20 Feb 2024 | 18
US Air Force's new cyber, IT skill recruitment plan: Bring back warrant officer ranks Officer pay, limited command duties and writing 'code for your country' Security14 Feb 2024 | 10
Software troubles delay F-35 fighter jet deliveries ... again There's more than one way for these things to crash Public Sector24 Jan 2024 | 64
Perfect timing... US Navy throws Boeing $103M to update its sub recon jets Just as Secretary of State's 737 goes on the Blink(en) at Davos Public Sector18 Jan 2024 | 29
Pentagon using ChatGPT? Oh sure, for cyber-things and veterans, says OpenAI Just days after ban on 'military and warfare' applications goes away, Davos hears the details AI + ML16 Jan 2024 | 4
US Navy sailor swaps sea for cell after accepting bribes from Chinese snoops Petty officer Wenheng Zhao admitted to taking as many as 14 payoffs in return for non-public military information Security09 Jan 2024 | 32
Microchip nabs $162M to keep chips for washing machines – and missiles – flowing Uncle Sam: Nothing goes together quite like a well-pressed uniform and weapons of mass destruction On-Prem04 Jan 2024 | 3
UK will be HQ for high-flying next-gen fighter jet treaty with Italy, Japan Global Combat Air Program aims to replace Eurofighter Typhoon and Mitsubishi F-2 Public Sector18 Dec 2023 | 71
British arms dealer BAE behind F-35 electronics first in line for US CHIPS funds More awards imminent agency says Public Sector11 Dec 2023 | 13
Stratolaunch takes ready-to-fly hypersonic craft skyward, but still no launch Scheduled summer Mach 5 flight deadline came and went Science06 Dec 2023 | 12
Korean peninsula space race sees South and North launch tit for tat spy sats North claims it took photos of stuff. South points to success of homegrown booster Offbeat05 Dec 2023 | 8
Space Force turns to Falcon Heavy for spaceplane's seventh mission Experiments include subjecting seeds to radiation and expanding flight envelope Science09 Nov 2023 | 13
Intel to build hush-hush fabs to bake chips for US military 'Secure enclave' reports point to separate production line with blocked off access Public Sector07 Nov 2023 | 6
You can buy personal info of US military staff from data brokers for just 12 cents a pop Health records, financial situations, religious leanings, it's all out there, or so this study says Public Sector07 Nov 2023 | 15
We're getting that fry-day feeling... US Army gets hold of drone-cooking microwave rig Look, in the sky - it's a, oh, never mind Public Sector03 Nov 2023 | 80
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