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For DOD, building the cyber force is a team game

The cyber force is only halfway towards its personnel goal, but members are making marginal strides in training, recruitment and defining roles in the emerging operational domain.

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Warfare 2050: robots, augmented humans and force fields

An Army-sponsored workshop examined what the battlefield of future decades could look like based on current trends, technologies and trajectories.

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Hackathon helps improve DARPA’s Plan X

The program looks to make it easier to visualize a network and recognize malicious activity.

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How the cyber domain blurs the lines on warfare

Most military leaders and experts agree that stealing information is not an act of war. But what's the cyber equivalent of taking up arms?

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National Guard wants to make more domestic use of drones

A recent report outlines the uses unmanned aerial vehicles could serve in domestic airspace, as well as the constraints standing in the way.

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Revamped Air Force Materiel Command goes for agility

Amid a changing threat landscape, AFMC has revised its vision and mission statements to better reflect goals.

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GAO warns DOD of 'fragmented' approach to commercial satellites

A scattered procurement process leaves the military without a good accounting of its resources, and could be leaving money on the table, the report says.

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Air Force to offer $15K-a-year bonuses for drone pilots

The proposed changes also include stepping up training of new pilots.

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DOD trying behavioral analytics as a way to thwart insider threats

The defense and intelligence communities want to get inside the heads of those who would leak sensitive documents.

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Transcom nominee takes aim at cyber threat

At his Senate confirmation hearing, Air Force Gen. Darren McDew stressed the importance of information sharing with the private sector, which handles 90 percent of Transcom’s activity.

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Army addressing an emerging threat: drones as IEDs

The service has adapted missile defense technology to defend against small drones that could pose a threat to friendly forces or infrastructure.

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DOD looking for 'good enough' mobile security

Officials say they want enterprise-worthy devices that can be acquired quickly, but not ones that "try solve every problem."

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Army deploys 'flying command post' for paratroopers

The EMC2 system provides lets paratroopers plan missions en route and get live views of a landing zone right up to the time of a jump.

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Maryland National Air Guard to build a new cyber center

The move by the 175th Wing reflects the growing role the Guard and Reserves are playing in cyber defense.

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Army's exoskeleton improves marksmanship

ARL's MAXFAS reduces involuntary tremors and improve the shooting proficiency of soldiers.

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Air Force team develops innovative RPA collaboration system

The Web-based Surveillance Intelligence Reconnaissance Information System revamps the way remotely piloted aircraft crews collaborate.

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Military enlists private sector to build cyber mission force

The U.S. Cyber Command and the Army are courting assistance in training and capabilities.

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Cyber Guard exercise expands to whole-of-nation defense

Over 100 organizations in the government, military, industry, academia and the international community worked on developing unified, interoperable cyber skills.

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Army giving cyber warriors a training range of their own

CECOM will open the Cyber Battle Ground to all units later this year to speed up cyber operations training.

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ARL scientist zooms in on a better way to search confiscated images

A new interface for DARPA's Visual Media Reasoning system spares Intelligence Community analysts a lot of time and frustration.