The question is who would the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies include. Would its prospective Pentagon collaboration be confined to those with boots on the ground, or would it open things up to drone pilots?
There are golden rules for making a successful fighter plane and the F-35 has broken all of them.
The age-old problem in engineering is that you can make something strong, light, or cheap, but you can only pick two.
The Pentagon's pursuit of the Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter jet has been a heartbreaking one.
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.
DARPA wants to get soldiers off the pot and back on the ground.
DARPA's four-legged, load-bearing robotic mule was already impressive. AlphaDog could trot around on all fours for 20 miles without refueling. It could carry up to 400 pounds of gear up hills. It could even pick itself back up if it got knocked over…
I really want to get excited about the DARPA-funded robot that's faster than any man on Earth. But then I imagine it's chasing me.
Sometimes DARPA works in mysterious ways. With a $2.8 billion annual operating budget, the Pentagon's (in)famous research and development arm exists to develop future forward technology that will keep our military a stride ahead of the rest, and the
Government employees are just like you and me. Just like you and me, they wake up in the morning, put on some chinos, go to work and sit at a computer all day. Just like you and me, sometimes they get bored, so they surf the web a little bit. And — t…
For all the griping the U.S. government has done about WikiLeaks, there are some actually some useful applications for the treasure trove of data the whistleblower organization has gotten its hands on. In a sense, the WikiLeaks dumps have created the…
In recent years, military experts have harped on the idea that cyberspace will be the battlefield of the future, and the United States military is getting more aggressive about training soldiers that can fight there. In June, six airmen graduated fro…
If the most powerful armed force in history isn’t winning in reality, it certainly is on the big screen. And like so many problematic aspects of late capitalism, the military-Hollywood complex has a grimly understandable logic. For example, consider…
There. I said it. True, what we actually know about the U.S.’s overseas drone operations couldn’t hold a candle to what we know is purposely being kept in the dark. There’s no arguing that. Remember that the American program to use unmanned a…
