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Radar/EW
Paradigm shifts underway for electromagnetic spectrum dominance - Story
May 31, 2017
The electromagnetic spectrum is no longer primarily just a means for the military to communicate or sense the environment?it?s becoming a full-on warfare maneuver space.
Cyber
Lockheed Martin continues fighting cybercrime for DoD - Story
April 20, 2017
A recently won $347 million contract enables Lockheed Martin to continue overseeing the world's largest accredited digital forensics lab for five more years, as the company continues its role as the prime contractor for the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3). Operating under the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, DC3's scope encompasses the entire DoD, providing operations, management, and mission support to more than 10 agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Defense Security Service (DSS), and U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM).
Unmanned
Unmanned undersea vehicles are "embracing nature" and evolving quickly - Story
April 10, 2017
Unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) are pushing boundaries and evolving in innovative ways - often drawing design inspiration from nature - to carry out a variety of military missions.
Unmanned
Landing drones on moving targets - Story
March 13, 2017
Landing a drone on a moving target - and using fuzzy logic to do it - is simply badass.
Avionics
Synthetic vision systems on the way for military avionics - Story
February 27, 2017
Synthetic vision systems, already flying on some commercial aircraft, are now finally on their way to U.S. military avionics platforms. These systems will provide a tactical advantage within degraded visual environments while taking advantage of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) processing solutions and open architecture initiatives, such as the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE), enabling their design and deployment.
Cyber
Rhamnousia: Framework for cyberattack attribution - Story
February 14, 2017
The science of cyberattack attribution gets a boost, thanks to a U.S. Department of Defense $17.3 million award to a team led by Georgia Institute of Technology researchers.
Radar/EW
Cognitive electronic warfare: Countering threats posed by adaptive radars - Story
January 31, 2017
Threats posed by adaptive radars to electronic warfare systems are a colossal challenge for the U.S. Navy, but a combo of advanced signal processing, intelligent algorithms, and machine learning techniques are being developed to help warfighters detect and counter them.
Comms
Next-gen navigation: Tapping signals of opportunity - Story
November 21, 2016
Need to navigate and global-positioning system (GPS) signals are unavailable? No problem.
Comms
Backup PNT methods are essential for GPS-denied environments - Story
November 09, 2016
Backup methods of position, navigation, and timing (PNT) are essential for warfighters operating within GPS-denied environments. Warfighters rely on the U.S. NAVSTAR global positioning system (GPS) and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) for military operations, but are encountering an intense escalation of jamming and spoofing attacks.
Cyber
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Comms
Managing COTS obsolescence for military systems - Story
September 12, 2016
The short life cycles of commercial components create many obsolescence headaches for military electronic-system designers as they try to integrate these high-performance devices into air, ground, and sea platforms that must last for decades, have long system development cycles, and require time-consuming testing procedures. As the military looks to leverage more open architectures and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology, the challenge of managing the obsolescence that comes with COTS will only become more difficult.
Radar/EW
Cyber
Hunting vulns by adding swarms of bugs to source code - Story
July 29, 2016
In a new twist on hunting vulnerabilities within source code, researchers are adding huge swarms of bugs to test the limits of bug-finding tools.
Radar/EW
"Cyber hardening" DoD networks, sensors, and systems for mission resiliency - Story
July 27, 2016
BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon are all leveraging automation and analytics to "cyber harden" military networks, sensors, and systems.
Comms
Military secure satellite communications capacity is evolving rapidly - Story
June 15, 2016
The capacity and capabilities of military satellite communications systems are evolving, but so are the multifaceted security challenges they now face.
Cyber
Paving the way for fast, secure quantum communications - Story
June 14, 2016
Quantum key distribution (QKD) will play a central role in the next generation of secure communications, and new software from university researchers helps quickly evaluate security protocols for QKD.
Unmanned
Small UAS payloads pose SWaP and bandwidth challenges - Story
April 14, 2016
The payloads of military unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) continue to evolve - using smarter sensors and a smaller overall footprint - but must overcome size, weight, and power (SWaP) design hurdles, as well as slower-than-desirable sensor processing, lack of bandwidth in downlinks, and security challenges.
Cyber
Cybersecurity: Automate cyber defense with AI reasoning? - Other
April 04, 2016
Is it possible to automate the cyber defense process with machines that can discover, confirm, and fix software flaws in real-time? The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) certainly hopes so and is hosting its Cyber Grand Challenge?s (CGC) final competition in August 2016 in conjunction with DEF CON, home of the longest-running attack/defend Capture the Flag global competition for elite hackers, in Las Vegas, Nevada, to find out.
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