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The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is on the hook for meeting the challenge of air- and space-related joint all-domain command and control. Having spent the last couple of years validating the ...

Soldiers may soon be wearing equipment that physically strengthens and protects them, as well as potentially improves their cognitive abilities on the battlefield. Artillery soldiers carry heavy ...

China employs an opaque second navy that is nominally a civilian fishing fleet but follows orders from its military. The militia has been described by scholars as “a force of vessels ostensibly ...

Drug traffickers expand the use of submersible vessels to transport illicit substances as states struggle to detect them. This whack-a-mole game sees cartels improve the seaworthiness and technologies ...

The rise of the drug cartel movement since the 1970s has ignited fear among many. From complex and undetected tunnel systems to leveraging ubiquitous technical surveillance (UTS), many of the recently ...

While technology consortiums to advance emerging technologies are not new, the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, is unique. The QED-C is a first-of ...

Never before has there been a holistic view of the nation’s cyber attack surface, by county. Thanks to researchers at the University of Maryland, counties can assess how vulnerable their IP addresses, ...

The article “DARPA Leverages Universities’ Quantum Expertise” by Kimberly Underwood in the July issue of SIGNAL Magazine discussed the exciting partnership between the Defense Advanced Research ...

Today, with almost infinite sources and publicly available sensors, open-source intelligence (OSINT) collection has achieved high sophistication and allows, for example, the ability to follow ...

In 2022, amidst the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict, one of the largest cyber attacks fell upon Kyivstar, the largest telecommunications provider in Ukraine, leaving millions without mobile and ...