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Air Force Buys Fewer Drones -- But Ups Drone Flights
The drones are busy in the skies over Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, and they're just getting busier. The Pentagon plans to increase the flight rates of the deadly robots. So why's the Air Force saying it's going to buy fewer of them? One answer: It doesn't have enough humans.
02.15.12
Apple Says Grabbing Address Book Data Is an iOS Policy Violation
Last week, it came to light that Path, a social media app for iOS, was storing user address-book data without first requesting permission. Today, Apple announced the app's actions were against policy.
02.15.12
See for Yourself: The Pentagon's $51 Billion 'Black' Budget
Their names are obscured by code words, or simply listed as "classified programs." But with a little digging, we can get a (limited) sense of how much money is being spent on the U.S. government's most secret military projects. In fact, you can take a look for yourself.
02.15.12
One Way To Spend Your Winter Break
02.14.12
Darpa's Magic Plan: 'Battlefield Illusions' to Mess With Enemy Minds
Arthur C. Clarke once famously quipped that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." So perhaps it was inevitable that the Pentagon's extreme technology arm would eventually start acting like magicians -- and try to create illusions on the front lines.
02.14.12
Senators Hate The Pentagon Cuts They Voted For
02.14.12
Darpa Dodges Obama Budget Death Ray, Keeps Its $2.8 Billion
For most of the U.S. military's far-flung community of scientists and engineers, Monday was a day to pop a Xanax, with budgets sliced almost everywhere. Yet Darpa - the Pentagon's premiere research arm - somehow emerged unscathed. How? Well, embracing the White House's top priorities sure didn't hurt.
02.14.12
U.S. Cuts Cash for Its Own Afghan Exit Strategy
02.13.12
Military Wants $3 Billion for a War It Isn't Fighting
The U.S. military is almost entirely out of Iraq, with the exception of an office in Baghdad to sell the Iraqis American-made weapons. But it still wants to spend $3 billion-with-a-B in Iraq next year.
02.13.12
Meet Obama's Older, Creakier Military
Money for research and development is down. Cash for maintaining the military's aging and existing inventory of planes, trucks, guns and bombs that the military already is up. This is what happens when austerity comes to the Pentagon: an older, wheezing force -- for the low, low price of $613.9 billion.
02.13.12
How The Pentagon's Top Killers Became (Unaccountable) Spies
Exclusive and first interview with the author of "The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army." It promises to be the most definitive look so far at the Joint Special Operations Command -- the lethal force behind the Osama Bin Laden raid.
02.13.12
Navy's Rail Gun Blasts Through Budget Restrictions
Congress had its budgetary knives out for the Electronic Railgun, the Navy's futuristic cannon that fires bullets at hypersonic speeds with a burst of electricity. But the railgun survived -- that is, unless continuing technical hurdles doom it. And it's not the only high-tech weapon the Navy's moving forward with.
02.10.12
R.I.P. 'Laney,' The Dog Who Inspired the Military's Robot Pooches
Before there was the BigDog ¿ the Pentagon's remarkably lifelike four-legged robot ¿ there was a German short-haired pointer named Laney. The brown-speckled pooch inspired one of the military's most bizarre and captivating technology projects, its gallops and marches witnessed by millions on YouTube. This week, word spread among the small circle of Defense Department researchers who knew Laney that she had passed away. She was 12 years old.
02.09.12
Video: Helos Soar Over Big Navy Wargame
Over 14,000 sailors and Marines from 31 ships and 11 nations took part in the biggest amphibious exercise in a decade. Wired was there, cameras rolling.
02.09.12
Amphibious Network Lets Marines Share Data From 250 Miles Away
The Marines think they have their data network of the future, an experimental communications system that can keep jarheads linked to sea bases 250 miles away. If it works, it'll be a big win for a Navy/Marine plan to take U.S. troops off of land bases where the locals don't want them. And it got its first test this week off the Atlantic coast during a massive wargame.
02.09.12
General: Taliban Suicide Bombings Show U.S. 'Progress'
02.08.12
Motorola Tablet Snafu Exposes Some Users to Privacy Risks
Today Motorola issued a fail alert of epic proportions: From October to December 2011, 100 out of 6,200 refurbished Xooms sold from Woot.com may contain the previous owner's personal data.
02.03.12
Darpa Implants Could Track Your Stress Level 24/7
In a new call fo research, Darpa's asking for proposals to devise prototype implantable biosensors. Once inserted under a soldier's skin, Darpa wants the sensors to provide round-the-clock, accurate measurements of "DoD-relevant biomarkers" like stress hormones, or compounds that signal inflammation.
02.03.12
Afghan Villagers Told: Volunteer ... Or Else
In order to find recruits to fight the Taliban, U.S.-backed forces have to act a little like the Taliban, threatening a village. David Axe reports from Afghanistan.
02.03.12
House Republicans Slam Holder for Gunwalking 'Cover-Up'
02.02.12
Rogue Cop Threatens Shaky U.S.-Afghan Alliance
The plan was to raise a squad of cops to guard this town on the Pakistan border. But an officer-gone-rogue had other ideas. David Axe reports from Afghanistan.
02.02.12
Quietly, NATO Hints It Could Leave Afghanistan Faster
02.01.12
Obama, Romney Campaigns Adopt Mobile Payments For Donations
We're about 10 months away from the presidential election, and grassroots fundraising is kicking into high gear. For the first time ever, smartphone-enabled mobile payments are playing into fundraising schemes, both for Republican and Democrat presidential hopefuls.
01.31.12
Iran Now a 'Top Threat' to U.S. Networks, Spy Chief Claims
American officials have complained for years that U.S. networks were crawling with Russian and Chinese hackers. On Tuesday, the nation's top intelligence official told Congress that there's a new danger to America's information security: Iran. If only he had provided a little evidence to back up the claim.
01.31.12
Army's New Weight-Loss Plan: Transplant Soldiers With Extra Fat
Just last week, military brass vowed that the force of the future would be "smaller and leaner." Apparently, the Army's taking that pretty damn literally. They want smaller, leaner soldiers. Their best idea to do it? Give GIs transplants of extra fat cells.
01.31.12
NATO Will Buy Its First Spy Drones, Eventually
After years of delay and shrinking budgets, NATO will buy its first ever spy drones later this year. But it's a tentative entry, at best, into the ranks of the unmanned systems revolution. The five new robotic spies won't actually join the transatlantic military alliance's air fleet until the end of the decade.
01.31.12
Army's Automated Dog Whisperer Will Train Puppies of War
The military wants its next breed of bomb-sniffing dogs to be trained by a computer.
01.30.12

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