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  1. The Counter Terrorism Technical Support Office, a small technology development agency under the Defense Department's intelligence undersecretary, recently held a bidders' conference for classified counter-UAV technology. Above, a US Predator unmanned drone is seen in Afghanistan in a file photo. Massoud Hossaini / AFP

    US Seeks To Defend American Officials from UAV Targeted Killings

    The US government, which has used missile-armed UAVs to kill hundreds in Pakistan and Yemen, is looking for ways to ward off the same kind of attacks on its own officials.

    • Jun. 10, 2013
  2. CIA, NSA Contractor Said He Leaked Info on Secret Programs

    The criminal investigation into who leaked key documents on the government's secret electronic snooping programs had only just started when a 29-year-old federal contract employee came forward and claimed responsibility.

    • Jun. 10, 2013
  3. Digital Results Group's Ageon ISR tool integrates video and intelligence from multiple sources. Subjects of interest can be tagged and tracked. Digital Results Group

    Video Haystacks: Boston Attacks Highlight Need For Modern Visualization Tools

    Desperate for clues in the wake of the Boston bombings, law enforcement officials asked the public to deluge them with videos and cellphone photos taken near the Boston Marathon finish line.

    • Jun. 7, 2013
  4. US Army Maps Future of the Electronic Battlefield

    In a sense — and in one sense only — American and NATO forces have had it easy in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    • Jun. 7, 2013
  5. SOCOM-approved Silent Circle Resists Calls For Wiretap Backdoors

    The recent disclosure that the Obama administration has secretly been collecting the phone records of millions of Americans is a reminder just how much of a digital trail people leave in modern communications.

    • Jun. 6, 2013
  6. AI For Intel: Incremental Advances But No 'Big Brain'

    In October, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency premiered its most ambitious humanoid robot contest ever: a competition to build robots that could replace humans in disaster areas like the 2011 multiple-reactor meltdown at Japan's Fukushima nucl

    • Jun. 5, 2013
  7. Arcadia, a Canadian computer security company, teaches intelligence and law enforcement officials worldwide how to hack mobile phones. Brendan Smialowski / AFP

    Canadian Firm Trains Law Enforcement, Intel Officials To Hack Smartphones

    Smartphone vulnerability is a prickly issue, a tradeoff between the alluring conveniences the devices offer and the risks they bring.

    • Jun. 4, 2013
  8. An Israeli-built Heron unmanned aircraft and a manned Spanish Air Force plane recently demonstrated advances in the integration of UAVs in civil airspace. Israel Aerospace Industries

    International ISR: Israel Tackles The Last Frontier Of UAV Technology

    It was an ordinary spring day on the southeast coast of Spain when an Israeli-built maritime Heron 1 unmanned aerial vehicle took off at 11 a.m. from San Javier Air Base in Murcia.

    • Jun. 3, 2013
  9. The Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload, a heat-detecting sensor installed on the SES-2 communications satellite, demonstrated that commercial satellites can host military or intelligence sensor payloads without interference. Orbital Sciences Corp.

    Space Attacks: Technology And Contracting Shifts May End Market Dominance

    In the spring of 1994, President Clinton approved the creation of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, a project that would aggregatethe weather-tracking capabilities of the Air Force, NASA and the National Oceanic and A

    • May. 31, 2013
  10. Victor Suarez Rojas, also known as Mono Jojoy, was the commander of FARC until he was killed during a 2010 raid by the Colombian military. AFP / Getty Images

    Update: SOUTHCOM ISR Helped Kill 32 'Narco-Terrorists'

    Earlier this year, leaders of U.S. Southern Command told Congress that ISR support provided to nations south of Mexico had led to more than '32 high-value narco-terrorists killed in action.' Just who were these individuals killed with U.S.

    • May. 30, 2013
  11. EDA Study Cites Cyber Training, Education, Gaps

    A European Defence Agency (EDA) study of the military cyberdefense capabilities across 20 EU countries released here May 24 has identified training, education and cyber situational awareness as among the 'most pressing gaps.'

    • May. 24, 2013
  12. Smart Money: The Venture Capitalists Who Stake Intelligence Technology

    Late last year, a small Alabama defense firm hit the big leagues.

    • May. 24, 2013
  13. 130522-N-ZZ999-001PALMDALE, Calif. (May 22, 2013) The Northrop Grumman-built Triton unmanned aircraft system completed its first flight from the company's manufacturing facility in Palmdale, Calif. The one an a half hour flight successfully demonstrated control systems that allow Triton to operate autonomously. Triton is specially designed to fly surveillance missions up to 24 hours at altitudes of more than 10 miles, allowing coverage out to 2,000 nautical miles. The system's advanced suite of sensors can detect and automatically classify different types of ships. (U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Northrop Grumman by Bob Brown/Released) Bob Brown/U.S. Navy

    Navy's New BAMS Aircraft Makes First Flight

    An MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System — previously known as the Broad Area Maritime System (BAMS) — took to the air for the first time last Wednesday, completing an 80-minute flight around southern California.

    • May. 24, 2013
  14. House Republicans Signal Support for Cadre of Military Spies

    The US Defense Department's desire to create an unprecedented cadre of military spies is one step closer to becoming a clandestine reality.

    • May. 21, 2013
  15.  Staff file photo

    Thumbs Up for iPhones at DoD

    The Defense Department will allow government-issued iPhones and iPads to connect to the military's networks, the Pentagon announced Friday.

    • May. 21, 2013
  16. Col. Charles Wells U.S. Army

    Common Ground: The U.S. Army's Col. Charles Wells on Integrating Intel

    Col. Charles Wells is the program manager for the Army's Distributed Common Ground System, the service's effort to integrate all streams of intelligence.

    • May. 20, 2013
  17. About one-third of the Air Force fleet of Reapers and Predators is controlled by the CIA. Air Force

    Targeted Killing: CIA's Fleet of 80+ UAVs Unlikely To Be Transferred To Military

    The Obama administration has floated the idea of putting the CIA's controversial targeted killing operations under the control of the armed services.

    • May. 15, 2013
  18. Sailors aboard an inflatable boat unload bales of cocaine after an embarked Coast Guard law enforcement detachment seized the contraband during a drug interdiction in the Caribbean Sea. Navy

    Going Dark: SOUTHCOM, Where Modern ISR Was Born, Is Hoping for Assets

    In 1989, two small U.S. planes took off in Colombia's expansive Aburra Valley, the first flights of a surveillance operation that would ultimately reshape the American way of war.

    • May. 14, 2013
  19. Biometrics: A New Intelligence Discipline

    The intelligence community is pushing to make biometrically enabled intelligence — the art of identifying people by fingerprints, digital mugshots, iris scans or DNA — a regular part of business.

    • May. 13, 2013
  20. The Persistent Threat Detection System is a tethered aerostat capable of staying aloft for weeks at a time to provide around-the-clock surveillance of broad areas. Lockheed Martin

    Aerostats Lost: Weather, Mishaps Take Heavy Toll on Dirigibles

    Anyone watching from the ground in Afghanistan might have stared in astonishment at the strange battle that broke out overhead one day in 2011.

    • May. 7, 2013
  21. The Power of the Muon

    When the 9/11 Commission recommended, and Congress enacted into law, the requirement to scan 100 percent of cargo containers bound for the United States, it was recognized that technology did not exist at the time to enable compliance, but Congress foresa

    • May. 7, 2013
  22. A mock-up of a King Air 350 fuselage is used to test the integration of the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System on the aircraft. Army

    Latest Army Spy Plane Readied in Secret Lab

    Nestled off a road at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., is a complex of modern office buildings that house some of the Army's most innovative programs.

    • May. 7, 2013
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