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Researchers at IARPA and Lockheed Martin used artificial intelligence to identify more than 100 objects a second in satellite imagery. They were right 83 percent of the time. Differentiating a port from a shipyard is a new kind of problem for AI It’s well known that satellites and other intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms collect…
The future human-machine interface: dubbed the Molar Mic, it’s a small device that clips to your back teeth. “Once you’ve made something digital, the information can be interspersed.” Sonitus received early funding from In-Q-Tel, the nonprofit investment arm of the CIA. The future of battlefield communications is resting comfortably near your back gums. Next…
In einem tagesschau24-Interview bewertete Hans-Wilhelm Dünn, Präsident des Cyber-Sicherheitsrat Deutschland e.V., die Gründung der Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit der Bundesregierung: „Die Gründung einer solchen Agentur ist längst überfällig. Wir müssen unsere eigenen nationalen IT-Systeme verstehen und kontrollieren können. Gleichzeitig brauchen wir insgesamt mehr Budget, um die Kompetenzen der Behörden im Bereich der Attribution,…
Systeme und Technologien der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) sind in der Gegenwart angekommen und werden die Zukunft nachhaltig prägen. Die Debatte wird dabei jedoch von Akteuren wie den USA und China bestimmt, Deutschland liegt im internationalen Vergleich zurück. Der für Dezember 2018 geplante ‚Masterplan Künstliche Intelligenz‘ der Bundesregierung soll von daher die Forschung und Nutzung von…
This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew) Facial recognition systems are a highly efficient public security solution. However, this field remains controversial, mainly due to privacy issues. Facial recognition has been recently at the center of an alarming report. It’s been discovered that technology giant IBM developed the tech for the New York Police…
This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew) A project that will lead to the use of UAV laser weapons to destroy enemy ballistic missiles is advancing to the next stage. Power electronics experts at three U.S. defense companies are moving forward with a project to develop enabling technologies for laser weapons on future unmanned…
The Army believes integration will be the key to winning in the high tech environments of the future, and to do so the service is building a force that will be well versed in cyber, electronic warfare, signal and information operations. One of the Army’s first moves toward this end is the transition of electronic…
Rogers: “There is not enough expertise within the senior levels of the government; at times ‘we’re talking about fundamental game-changing policy that, if we’re honest, we don’t truly understand.’ ” The recently departed director of the National Security Agency and former head of U.S. Cyber Command believes the U.S. structure and organization against cyberthreats…
Leaders at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced Sept. 7 a $2 billion initiative, known as AI Next, that aims to substantially improve artificial intelligence research. “With AI Next, we are making multiple research investments aimed at transforming computers from specialized tools to partners in problem-solving,” Steven Walker, the agency’s director, said in a…
U.S. Cyber Command is standing up a cyber version of SOFWERX, the public-private partnership run through Special Operations Command to foster greater innovation for rapid solutions. DreamPort, run by the Maryland Innovation and Security Institute through a partnership intermediary agreement with Cyber Command, is described as a state-of-the-art facility where companies can bring in their…
WASHINGTON — Artificial intelligence and autonomy often conjure images of killer robots for the general public and even some in government. But development underway by the Army Research Laboratory toward “mobile intelligent entities” is actually far more practical, said Chief Scientist Alexander Kott. Kott pitched the term, along with the new ARL concept of fully…
Bekommt die Bundeswehr bald Zuwachs an neuen Waffen? CC-BY-SA 2.0 Tobias Nordhausen Die Bundesministerien für Inneres und Verteidigung gründen eine Agentur für Innovationen in der Cybersicherheit. Vordergründig soll es um die Entwicklung von Sprunginnovationen gehen. Kritiker*innen sehen die Neugründung als Vorstoß zur Militarisierung des digitalen Raumes. 30.08.2018 Verteidigungsministerin Ursula von der Leyen und Innenminister…
Lt. Gen. VeraLinn “Dash” Jamieson, Deputy Chief of Staff Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) The US Air Force’s ambitious new Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) strategy calls for a sensing grid that fuses together data from legacy platforms (such as the RQ-4 Global Hawk), emerging technologies (like swarming drones), other services’ platforms and publicly…
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Air Force’s Global Positioning System was a continuous target. “Every year [as] we went through the budget cycle the United States Air Force … tried to kill the GPS program,” Gen. John Hyten, now head of U.S. Strategic Command, said during a 2015 speech. “Why would they…
Cyber has become a means for nations and organizations to achieve objectives below the thresholds of conflict. In this new digital warfare domain, traditional conceptions are being flipped on their heads. Here are three potential trends that could factor into this increasingly dynamic environment, according to Col. Steve Rehn, the cyber capability manager…
Rickey White pilots and interceptor drone during the ThunderDrone Tech Expo at SOFWERX in Tampa, Fla., Sept. 5, 2017. The expo provided an opportunity for industry, national laboratories and academia to discuss and promote new and innovative drone technology with the special operations community. (Barry Loo / USAF) The great trick of computers is…
Parsing what detected signals matter is an electronic warfare skill that can possibly be designated to artificial intelligence. (Armando R. Limon/Army) A platypus, several Australians and a thundering panda walk into an electromagnetic spectrum, then leave with $150,000. The result is, potentially, a technique and a tool that will allow soldiers to discover what…
Worldwide spending on information security products and services will reach more than $114 billion in 2018, an increase of 12.4 percent from last year, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. In 2019, the market is forecast to grow 8.7 percent to $124 billion. “Security leaders are striving to help their organizations securely use technology…
Modeled on the US version, Germany’s new cyberdefense agency [ADIC] will leverage civilian expertise and ensure the country is up to date with technology. But already it looks like good old-fashioned German bureaucracy is getting in the way. Germany is planning to set up a cybersecurity agency to ensure the government keeps up with…
Defense Advanced Research Project Agency is looking for an artificial intelligence and machine-learning model that can help scientists and researchers push their work to new limits. The Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction (ASKE) program, announced Aug. 17, is the first contract opportunity DARPA has released as part of its new AI exploration program. The goal is…
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