Defense

Homeland Security: Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones

DHS and local law enforcement are looking to harden its drones against attack, but that comes at a price.

Defense

Air Force to Ask for More Drones

Plan would add 3,500 Reaper pilots and up to five more ops centers around the country

Defense

Meet the Military-Funded Artificial Intelligence that Learns as Fast as a Human

Today, it recognizes handwriting; tomorrow, it may vastly improve the military’s surveillance and targeting efforts.

Defense

Here's Why People Join ISIS

A marketing communications company gets the Pentagon’s attention by identifying nine reasons.

Defense

Can the U.S. Military Construct a Disaster-Resilient City?

Cities are incredibly complex, and break in complicated ways. Understanding that complexity will be key to mitigating tomorrow’s disasters.

Defense

CIA Director: Paris Attacks are a ‘Wakeup Call’ To Europe On Encryption

The ability to shield communications from anyone but the intended recipient via encryption and other digital means will now face unprecedented challenges.

Tech

US Military Blimp Down Over Pennsylvania

The Army lost control of its 3.5-ton multi-billion-dollar air-defense JLENS for four hours on Wednesday.

Defense

Meet the Army General Now in Charge of the ISIS War

Army Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland is now commanding the counter-ISIS campaign; Officials name Nagata’s successor at SOCOM Central.

Tech

Defense: State Department Doesn’t Have Enough People Tweeting At ISIS

In the war of online influence, the U.S. is gaining ground but is still hopelessly outmanned.

Defense

The Pentagon Used to Hook Everything To The Internet. Now It’s a ‘Big Problem’

The Internet of Things is supposed to make life easier. For the Pentagon, the quintessential early adopter, it has made life much harder

Defense

NSA Head: Loss of Access to Metadata Will Hurt Intelligence

The director of the NSA says the Freedom Act will slow and hamper intelligence gathering. Too bad it’s already law.

Briefing

Around Government

Bots call the shots, the geese police, the scope of cyber breaches.

Analysis

The Fallacy of Threat Detection

Despite vast troves of online clues, predicting lone wolf attacks like the shootings in Tennessee is an inexact science.

Management

Oshkosh Wins Massive Army Contract to Replace Humvee

The Army awarded a $6.7 billion contract Tuesday to the Wisconsin truck-maker for an initial batch of 17,000 vehicles for the Army and Marine Corps.

Defense

The Government is Watching the Ashley Madison Hack

Thousands of the site’s affair-seeking users registered from .mil and .gov domains — at least ostensibly.

Management

Drone Manufacturer Has Been Flying Spy Missions For Defense Since Early August

The US military has hired General Atomics to fly some missions — just ISR so far, but what about the future?

Defense

Air Force Looks To Make Smarter and Deadlier Drones

The Reaper's next chapter includes better sensors, more autonomy, bigger weapons

Analysis

Fighter of the Future

How technology will change soldiering in the decades ahead.

Defense

Robert Neller Tapped as Marine Corps Commandant

He 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.

Defense

Drone Pilot Psychologist 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.