Articles tagged "defense"

The future won't be decided by how many tanks we've got, but by how smart our programmers are.

The age-old problem in engineering is that you can make something strong, light, or cheap, but you can only pick two.

Nominating Chuck Hagel and John O. Brennan as defense secretary and CIA chief, respectively, represents a somewhat controversial re-imagining of the US national security team's expanding drone wars.

We've hijacked animals for their non-human abilities since before Alexander rode elephants in battle. But what about when we take over an animal's brain?

To rout the forces that are striving to close his chapter of Syrian history, Assad is now digging into his pile of scud misssiles and firing a few of them at rebels.

DARPA wants to get soldiers off the pot and back on the ground.

The government has decided it needs to beef up the ranks of its digital defenses. It’s assembling a league of extraordinary computer geeks for what will be known as the “Cyber Reserve.”

Nobody really knows what the National Security Agency is up to on a day-to-day level. The massive intelligence outfit is responsible for monitoring foreign communication operates in such secrecy, nobody really knows how big its operation in Fort Mead…