22:50 30.01.2015(updated 08:29 31.01.2015) Spokeswoman for the US Deputy Secretary of Defense says Pentagon no longer has exclusive access to the world’s cutting-edge military technologies. MOSCOW, January 30 (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov — The US Department of Defense no longer has… Read More ›
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Report: F35 fighters unable to evade Russian and Chinese radars
30 April 2014 The US’s newly developed radar-evading F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will not be able to escape Russian radars. “The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter… is not, in fact, stealthy in the eyes of a growing number of… Read More ›
DARPA developing ultimate web search engine to police the internet
Published time: February 12, 2014 22:35 Reuters / Umit Bektas The Pentagon’s research arm that fosters futuristic technology for the military will soon begin working to surpass current abilities of commercial web search engines. Yet, once it masters… Read More ›
Navy Yard shooter got clean bill of mental health just weeks before killing 12 people in gun rampage
Aaron Alexis left a note saying that he had been targeted by low-frequency radio waves for three months before the September 2013 shooting That time period lines up with when he was regularly visiting Veteran’s Affairs doctors complaining of sleeplessness… Read More ›
Army Fires Back on Its right to experiment on military personel without informed consent pre-1988
– at least 7,800 soldiers had been used as guinea pigs in Project Paperclip. – Soldiers were allegedly administered at least 250 and perhaps as many as 400 types of drugs, among them Sarin , one of the most deadly… Read More ›
Not Socially Acceptable: NSA boss video ‘most hated’ on YouTube in 2013?
EEV: In all fairness to the NSA director, he is only an employee of the government. It is not appropriate he be the fall guy, unless he acted independently of his supervisors. Published time: January 01, 2014 10:32 Director of the… Read More ›
Pentagon’s security chief misused authority, probe shows
The head of Pentagon security forces misused his authority by treating employees to a golf outing during the workday, relying on others to fetch his lunch and improperly getting a relative into an agency firing range, a Pentagon investigation… Read More ›
Body Armor Details May Be Kept Close to the Chest
By RYAN ABBOTT WASHINGTON (CN) – A federal judge won’t force the Pentagon to release autopsy information of U.S. soldiers killed in action to a former Marine doing research on the effectiveness of body armor. Roger Charles has… Read More ›
DoD to Award Contracts Throughout Shutdown, But Won’t Announce Them
Oct. 1, 2013 – 03:45AM | By MARCUS WEISGERBER | US Defense Department lawyers are working ‘to see if there’s any margin here or widening in the interpretation of the law regarding exempt versus non-exempt civilians,’ said Defense Secretary Chuck… Read More ›
DoD training manual suggests Founding Fathers followed ‘extremist ideology’
Published time: August 25, 2013 11:41 A man is arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protest September 17, 2012 on the one year anniversary of the movement in New York.(AFP Photo / Stan Honda) A Department of Defense training… Read More ›
Unhappy With U.S. Foreign Policy? Pentagon Says You Might Be A ‘High Threat’ : “Hema”
Matt Sledge Become a fan msledge@huffingtonpost.com Posted: 08/07/2013 11:36 am EDT | Updated: 08/07/2013 5:19 pm EDT Watch out for “Hema.” A security training test created by a Defense Department agency warns federal workers that they should consider the hypothetical Indian-American woman… Read More ›
Pentagon purges Osama bin Laden raid records
Posted By Associated Press On 10:59 AM 07/08/2013 In Politics WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. special operations commander, Adm. William McRaven, ordered military files about the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout to be purged from Defense… Read More ›
Congressman blasts Obama’s Defense Department for blocking Marine colonel from appearing before Congress as key witness in Benghazi probe
By David Martosko In Washington PUBLISHED: 14:01 EST, 9 July 2013 | UPDATED: 20:06 EST, 9 July 2013 Have you seen this man? U.S. Marine Corps Col. George Bristol, who is believed to have retired in March, commanded… Read More ›
US army blocks access to Guardian website to preserve ‘network hygiene’
Military admits to filtering reports and content relating to government surveillance programs for thousands of personnel Spencer Ackerman and Dan Roberts in Washington guardian.co.uk, Friday 28 June 2013 11.42 EDT The Pentagon insisted the Department of Defense was… Read More ›
DoD Calls Out China On Cyber Spying
Jun. 19, 2013 – 09:50AM | By Staff report | Filed Under C4ISR Journal The Pentagon for the first time is making direct allegations that China’s government and military are behind widespread cyber spying. Previously, the U.S. had tried to… Read More ›
June 7 memorandum from the DoD warning employees not to read information on any leaks
DoD Warns Employees of Classified Info in Public Domain Categories: Leaks, Secrecy As a new wave of classified documents published by news organizations appeared online over the past week, the Department of Defense instructed employees and contractors that they must… Read More ›
DoD: If You See A Leaked NSA Document, Press SHIFT And DELETE To Get Rid Of It
from the this-again dept We saw this back when Wikileaks released a bunch of documents and the Defense Department and other government agencies told employees that they weren’t allowed to look at any of the documents, even though they were… Read More ›
Link to Anonymous Leaked PRISM-related NSA docs
EEV: Always Click with Caution Link to Anonymous leaks more PRISM-related NSA docs Primary Page: http://thedocs.hostzi.com/ 2010 EA Conf_RA Track Presentation_20100506.ppt 3170_01.pdf 514401Doddirectoritenetworks.pdf 6212_01.pdf 800001pDirectoriteDodinfoenterprise.pdf DT-12-COI-Glossary.pdf DoDAF-DM2_CMP_v1-0_FINAL_2011-10-03r1.docx DoD_NetOps_Strategic_Vision.pdf EATransitionStrategy.pdf NSI_EE.pdf insa-spies.pdf netcentric_jfc-1.pdf security_clearance.pdf
US discloses Israel’s top-secret military base outraging Tel-Aviv
Published time: June 04, 2013 19:17 Edited time: June 04, 2013 21:05 An Arrow II battery, a U.S.-backed Israeli missile shield, is seen at Palmachim base, south of Tel Aviv May 29, 2013.(Reuters / Amir Cohen) The US government… Read More ›
US government orders Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed to remove blueprint for 3D-printed handgun from the web
Last week Wilson printed and fired the “Liberator” handgun James Legge Friday, 10 May 2013 The US government has demanded the removal of online files which allow users to 3D-print their own unregistered gun at home. The blueprint has so… Read More ›
A possible answer for protection against chemical/biological agents, fuel leaks, and coffee stains
Contact: Robert White robert.white@afosr.af.mil Air Force Office of Scientific Research A recent discovery funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research may very well lead to a process that not only benefits every uniformed service member of the Department… Read More ›
Pentagon laying off 46,000 staff
The US defence department says it has begun laying off most of its 46,000 temporary employees, as automatic defence budget cuts loom in March. Deputy Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said the Pentagon was acting “because we’re running out… Read More ›
Antivirus biz’s founder unmasked as noted Chinese hacker
Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/29/anvisoft_chinese_intrigue/ Blackhat once attacked US Department of Defense By John Leyden Posted in Security, 29th November 2012 09:19 GMT Free whitepaper – Gartner: Secure Web Gateway Malware Detection Techniques Antivirus startup Anvisoft was founded by an infamous Chinese hacker… Read More ›
U.S. DoD’s Autonomous Weapons Directive Keeps Man in the Loop: ” Humans still must play an oversight role “
Nov. 27, 2012 – 01:43PM | By AARON MEHTA | The U.S. Defense Department has issued a new directive on the use of autonomous and semi-autonomous weapon systems, an attempt to regulate a technology that officials say could be years… Read More ›
Osama bin Laden: Navy emails lift the lid on secret burial at sea
The first details of Osama bin Laden’s secret burial at sea have been revealed in internal US military emails which show that no sailor witnessed the covert funeral. President Barack Obama in the Situation Room of the White House… Read More ›
U.S. Army Sponsored Artificial Intelligence Surveillance System Attempts to Predict The Future
10/29/2012 @ 5:12AM |4,088 views In something that looks straight out of the CBS show “Person of Interest“, the science website Phsy.org is reporting on a potentially important breakthrough from researchers at Carnegie Mellon. In research sponsored by… Read More ›
After snagging $4.6B contract, Lockheed plans ‘cyber kill chain’ for Global Information Grid
Oct. 22, 2012 – 07:10PM | By DEBRA WERNER SAN FRANCISCO — The Defense Department’s day-to-day operations are linked in a vast, international in-house data communications network called the Global Information Grid. Seven million people — uniformed members of… Read More ›
Japan Takes Action Against Complex Cyber Threats
Oct. 9, 2012 – 11:46AM | By PAUL KALLENDER UMEZU | In the year since a sophisticated cyber attack on Japan’s largest military contractor unleashed a flood of revelations about the vulnerability of the country’s most sensitive technical data,… Read More ›
U.S. energy companies victims of potentially destructive cyber intrusions: The secretary said that a coordinated attack on enough critical infrastructure could be a “cyber Pearl Harbor”
Posted By John ReedThursday, October 11, 2012 – 8:56 PM Foreign actors are probing the networks of key American companies in an attempt to gain control of industrial facilities and transportation systems, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta revealed tonight. “We know… Read More ›
Fast-Acting Cyanide Antidote Discovered: thiocyanate
Posted for filing 2008 study A tailings pond containing cyanide-laden wastes covers acres at a gold mine near Elko, Nevada. Cyanide poisoning is a risk for anyone who is exposed to the chemical. A new antidote that can be taken… Read More ›
Obama administration officials say there’s no point crafting detailed sequestration plans
Prepare for the Worst Oct. 7, 2012 – 04:14PM | By THE DEFENSE NEWS STAFF Obama administration officials say there’s no point crafting detailed sequestration plans, given it’s a crisis created by Congress that might never happen. But Pentagon… Read More ›
Lockheed: No Sequestration Layoff Notices This Year ; WARN Act is now useless as taxpayers will pay the bill for ALL violations
Oct. 1, 2012 – 05:13PM | By ZACHARY FRYER-BIGGS | 1 Comments Lockheed Martin Chairman and CEO Robert Stevens has repeatedly warned that automatic budget cuts effective Jan. 2 would be devastating to the defense industry. (Lockheed Martin) After… Read More ›
Military rape victims sue Leon Panetta claiming Department of Defense ‘failed to punish dozens of sexual assaults’
20 men and women claimed they were harassed, raped, or assaulted Further allege they suffered retaliation when they reported alleged crimes By Associated Press PUBLISHED:22:42 EST, 28 September 2012| UPDATED:00:56 EST, 29 September 201 A lawsuit was filed Friday in… Read More ›