Author: Thomas J Ackermann

Army leaders used the AFCEA Army Signal Conference in Springfield, Virginia this week to emphasize that the service wants to change is the way it buys and equips forces from an IT and communications perspective. The Army recently finished its high profile review of the tactical network in which it charted a “halt, fix, pivot”…

Same name, different meaning: this is not the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI)   It’s an IT contract that isn’t an IT contract — a commercial cloud computing procurement that Department of Defense officials are touting as a means to revolutionize the military’s ability to effectively execute missions and protect the homeland. The Joint Enterprise…

Project Sonar scanner found over 100,000 exposed memcached servers at any given time   Just a week after code repository GitHub was knocked offline by the world’s largest recorded distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the same technique has been used to direct an even bigger attack at an unnamed US service provider. According to DDoS protection…

COLORADO SPRINGS: One topic dominates just about every conversation here at the AFCEA cyber symposium: where to find promising cyber warriors and how to hire them and keep them. Deloitte, which is building a substantial cyber warfare portfolio, put on a Capture the Flag game where five teams of college hackers had to find code…

Lockheed Martin this week unveiled its offering for a program that has been commonly thought of as Cyber Command’s top acquisition priority this year. The unified platform has been described as a “cyber carrier,” which cyber warriors can use to coordinate plans, house tools and launch attacks. Lockheed Martin’s prototype for the program is a…

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The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has granted authorization to connect unclassified national security data and mission critical information to the cloud. The provisional authorization granted by the Department of Defense will allow Impact Level 5 data be to stored using milCloud 2.0 from CSRA, a government information technology company. MilCloud 2.0 is the DoD’s…

The Army is working to develop a single platform that can do electronic attack and intelligence gathering. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Limon/U.S. Army)   The Department of Defense under Secretary of Defense James Mattis has begun to prioritize great power competition over terrorism for the first time in nearly 20 years. This has had…

“innovative discoveries are increasingly coming from the collaboration between disciplines, such as medicine and engineering”   This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew)   Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and the University of Maryland School of Engineering have developed a new military vehicle shock absorbing device that may protect…

This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew)   While researchers are working on a powerful 100-kilowatt laser to shoot down drones, smaller, more scientifically manageable projects have already been fielded. In fact, US Army soldiers are already using one of the first practical laser weapons in Europe, a civilian director of the Army’s Space…

This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew)   In today’s world, almost no one can hide from the authorities. There are cameras everywhere now, and with facial recognition algorithms your face could be recognized within seconds. You can see it even on Facebook, that offers automatic tagging of photos taken. One startup company is…

This… does not sound good. PATRICK CAUGHILL, FUTURISM 3 MAR 2018 The Google of China, Baidu, has just released a white paper showing its latest development in artificial intelligence (AI): a program that can clone voices after analyzing even a seconds-long clip, using a neural network. Not only can the software mimic an input voice,…