Author: Michael

Anticipating a cat-and-mouse game where military forces will try to fool their adversaries’ artificial intelligence systems, the U.S. Army’s chief of staff sees a need for coders that can quickly reprogram algorithms so they won’t be tricked.
Concealment has long been a key tool for survival on the battlefield, and armed forces around the world have employed tactics and technologies to help hide themselves and detect their foes. But in the evolving digital age, soldiers need to be prepared to defeat “the camouflage of the future,” Gen.

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U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jonathan Berlier

Whether we’ve failed to control them or they’re simply beyond our control, circumstances have a curious way of reminding us of the options we once had to help us solve the problems we face. Today, the U.S. Navy’s questionable anti-submarine warfare (ASW) readiness, the circumstances for which it has failed to control, has a group of U.S. Marine Corps and Navy officers calling for a return to an option that was used back in the early 1970s — tactical jets as submarine-hunters.

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The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has launched an investigation this week to find out how it left an exposed email server that was leaking sensitive but unclassified emails online. The leak was discovered in early February after a cybersecurity researcher alerted the command. Special Operations Command spokesperson Ken McGraw told CNN in an email […]
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Marking the one-year anniversary since Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February last year, the ebb and flow of the conflict seen in the early stages has slowed to a near-static frontline reminiscent of wars thought consigned to history.
Casualty figures are difficult to determine, although western officials put combined military figures of those killed in action and injured across the two sides at up to 300,000, with peak rates of around 1,000 a day at present, as Russia’s new year offensive around Bakhmut grinds into motion.

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Russia will continue serial production of hypersonic missiles from Kinzhal airbase, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared in a video speech posted on the Kremlin website on the occasion of Defender of the Fatherland Day.
“We will continue the serial production of Kinzhal airborne hypersonic systems,” said the Russian leader.
The Kinzhal is Russia’s next-generation hypersonic aeroballistic missile air system.

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An F-35C Lightning II fighter from the USS Carl Vinson crashed into the South China Sea last year, and an assessment by the US Navy concluded that pilot error was to fault.
Investigators concluded that the crash on January 24, 2022, which drew attention due to the leak of a dramatic video of the crash and speculation about the recovery of the aircraft, was because the pilot decided to make a specialized landing but you did not turn on electronic devices on the plane designed to assist you.
The accident injured the pilot and five sailors on the aircraft carrier’s flight deck.

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If an impending zero-trust pilot effort goes well, it could completely alter the Department of Defense’s timeline for implementing the cybersecurity architecture, according to a senior official.
Zero trust is a concept and framework that assumes networks are already compromised and require constant monitoring and authentication to protect critical information. The DOD’s strategy aims to get the department to such an architecture by 2027.
Under the plan, there are two levels of zero trust: a target level and advanced level.

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Few things can be more concerning to a homeowner than discovering your property has toxic contamination. One of those things is to find out the toxic contamination is from World War I poisonous gas and chemical warfare research that yielded a substance more deadly than those actually used to kill thousands on the battlefield during the war.
These circumstances existed for the residents of Spring Valley, about 661 acres in the Northwest section of Washington, D.C. It is the site of over 100 multi-million-dollar homes, the campus of American University, and even a well-known seminary.

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