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DHS Supporting Cybersecurity Forecasting Platform

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded 418 Intelligence Corporation of Herndon, Virginia $350,000 to develop a forecasting platform that

President's Commentary: Challenges Loom, Opportunities Abound

The rapid rise of near-peer competitors, coupled with new and emerging adversaries enabled by advanced technology and science, pose major international security threats.

Incoming: What About Data?

We must be willing to examine and change our business processes as much as or more than we are willing to change or apply technology.

Europe Confronts Hybrid Combat

Potential adversaries see few limits as they face the Free World.

Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist addresses the audience at TechNet Europe 2017 in Stockholm.

Marine Corps Lab Imagines Weapons of the Future

The Warfighting Laboratory pushes to meet technology needs and move faster than the enemy.

Marines exit a vehicle onto the beach during a recent amphibious landing exercise at Kin Blue Beach in Okinawa, Japan. The Marines need advanced technologies that will not limit their mobility.

Thinking Machines Going Mainstream

Radical change awaits as cognitive computing becomes the norm.

“The most important thing I will predict is that we will stop talking about the technology of cognitive computing. It will be simply a behavior that will be built into any newer system,” says Sue Feldman, a co-founder of the Cognitive Computing Consortium.

Warships Set to Make Waves With Powerful Lasers

The U.S. Navy is accelerating efforts to place the weapon systems on guided missile destroyers.

The Navy is adding high-energy lasers to the fleet aboard the DDG 51 Flight IIA “in the shortest time frame possible,” says a Naval Sea Systems Command spokesperson.

Marines Size Up Laser Weapons

For the Marines to be able to employ these laser weapons, the technologies must be as efficient and as small as possible.

Laser weapons could be integrated into all future Marine Corps vehicles, such as the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, or JLTV, says Jeff Tomczak, deputy director of the Science & Technology (S&T) Division at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. Oshkosh Defense

Keeping Up With a New Kind of Enemy

The Defense Department races to harness technology to beat better, faster, stronger adversaries.

As part of its information technology modernization effort, the U.S. Army aims to harness agile software development and cut software patching costs and software lines, says Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford, USA, the Army’s chief information officer (CIO)/G-6, at MILCOM 2017 in Baltimore.

Data Is the New Driver of the Fleet

The U.S. Navy resolves to maneuver successfully at sea and in the electromagnetic spectrum.

The USS Porter transits the Strait of Messina in the Mediterranean. The Navy is increasing its emphasis on information warfare (IW) as it integrates the capability with air, surface and subsurface operations.