Scientific Operations

The future of propaganda: big data will be a key part of the propaganda campaigns around the wars.

May 21, 2013

Source: Gigaom In 2009, Sean Gourley, an Oxford-trained physicist, gave a TED talk called “The Mathematics of War.” Gourley had been working with the Pentagon, the United Nations and the Iraqi Government to help them better understand the nature of the insurgency in Iraq, and in his presentation he announced something fairly striking: After analyzing the location, timing, [...]

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U.S. could use cyberattack on Syrian air defenses

May 16, 2013

Editor’s Note: Electronic Warfare : IDF’s teleprocessing corps C4i , Israel’s high-tech whiz kids, Unit 8200, and W32.Flame and Israel invests millions in drive for elite ‘cyber warriors’: Unit 8200 Source: USA Today The Pentagon has cyberattack capabilities that allow the U.S. military to help blind Syrian air defenses without firing a shot, according to military analysts. “One [...]

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‘Minority Report’ policing comes to the UK

May 15, 2013

Source: Telegraph Kent Police is using computer software to analyse historic offending and criminal behaviour to try and pinpoint where crimes will happen next. It is an echo of the Tom Cruise science fiction film Minority Report in which “pre-crime” units use psychics to predict future criminals and arrest them before they have even offended. [...]

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Biometrics: A new intelligence discipline-Identity Intelligence Project Office

May 13, 2013

Source: Defense News 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. Biometrics has evolved dramatically during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and is used in countless manhunts, but the discipline has not been [...]

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Electronic Warfare : IDF’s teleprocessing corps C4i

May 10, 2013

Source: JP “I’m directing EW at the head. This is also a form of psychological warfare. I can engage in this and then deny it. It wrecks the functionality of the enemy,” the source added. These days, the idea of Israel engaging its enemies in a war, whether in near or distant arenas, without its [...]

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Artificial telepathy to create Pentagon’s telepathic soldiers

May 10, 2013

Source: DJ As voice-activated technologies have become reality, including the recent use by Google Glass’ software, what about telling machines to do what we want simply by telepathically thinking about it? Telepathy has long been considered an aspect of psychic phenomena or a super power. Telepathy has commonly been defined as a sort of information [...]

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Training for war in a virtual battlespace

May 9, 2013

Source: TPP There is a sandstorm all around, and anything could be hidden up ahead in the haze of central Iraq. As a U.S. Army Humvee edges forward, a burst of gunfire erupts, slamming into the bulletproof glass of the passenger door. For an instant, the world becomes a dizzying mix of frantic steering wheel [...]

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Superstrong, telepathic – the bionic soldiers of the future: How radical technology could transform British troops within 30 years

April 29, 2013

Source:DM Warfare may be an awful thing, but it has a habit of accelerating health technology in ways that are helpful to everyone. For example, in World War II the Allies made significant medical advances in vital areas such as developing antibiotic drugs — which the Germans didn’t possess — and performing lifesaving blood transfusions. [...]

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Pain Rays and Robot Swarms: The Radical New War Games the DOD Plays

April 15, 2013

Source: Atlantic In the year 2025, a rogue state–long suspected of developing biological weapons–now seems intent on using them against U.S. allies and interests. Anticipating such an event, we have developed a secret “counter-virus” that could infect and destroy their stockpile of bioweapons. Should we use it? From a legal standpoint, it seems pretty straightforward that use [...]

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DARPA Building Robots With ‘Real’ Brains

April 9, 2013

Source: National Defense The next frontier for the robotics industry is to build machines that think like humans. Scientists have pursued that elusive goal for decades, and they believe they are now just inches away from the finish line. A Pentagon-funded team of researchers has constructed a tiny machine that would allow robots to act [...]

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Predictive Policing Project: LAPD Pre-Crime Divisions

March 31, 2013

Source: AGE The morning watch at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Foothill division begins at 6am, when the shift’s officers gather for roll-call and a briefing. The dozen or so officers file into the roll-call room and find space on the benches. They are briefed on incidents from the previous shift, and on any offenders [...]

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Amazon Web Services to build CIA spook cloud

March 19, 2013

Source:FCW In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years. Amazon Web Services will help the intelligence agency build a private cloud infrastructure that helps the [...]

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Carnegie Mellon and NSA seek high school hackers for next generation of cyber warriors

March 16, 2013

Source: AP Bored with classes? Carnegie Mellon University and one of the government’s top spy agencies want to interest high school students in a game of computer hacking. Their goal with “Toaster Wars” is to cultivate the nation’s next generation of cyber warriors in offensive and defensive strategies. The free, online “high school hacking competition” [...]

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Researchers print flexible electronic tattoo directly onto human skin

March 11, 2013

Source: Extreme Tech From the research lab that brought us stick-on electronic tattoos, and recently the stretchable battery, we now have the first electronic sensor that has been printed directly onto human skin. These sensors can directly measure skin hydration and temperature, and electric signals from muscle and brain activity. The skin-printable sensors, created by [...]

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DARPA looks to use small ships as drone bases

March 4, 2013

Source: IET The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node (TERN) programme to combine the strengths of both land- and sea-based approaches to supporting airborne assets. TERN envisions using smaller ships as mobile launch and recovery sites for medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) fixed-wing unmanned aircraft (UAVs). Named after the family [...]

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The Russian army is preparing for war in cyberspace

March 2, 2013

Source: R&I Cyberspace is rapidly becoming, if not a battlefield in the direct sense of the word, then a central arena for future wars. In this context, the decision by the Russian Ministry of Defence to create a specialised network command is justified and timely. According to media reports, Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu recently [...]

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Digital Blackwater: U.S. Government outsources cyberwarfare to private U.S. firms

February 21, 2013

Source: AP When Kevin Mandia, a retired military cybercrime investigator, decided to expose China as a primary threat to U.S. computer networks, he didn’t have to consult with American diplomats in Beijing or declassify tactics to safely reveal government secrets. He pulled together a 76-page report based on seven years of his company’s work and [...]

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Gladius “future soldier” system

February 18, 2013

Source: Gizmag The Rheinmetall Group has been awarded an €84 million (US$112 million) contract to supply a further sixty of its Gladius “future soldier” systems to the German Federal Defense Force (Bundeswehr). The modular system, which provides soldiers with high-tech protective gear backed by a networked array of communication and navigation equipment, will be used [...]

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Raytheon’s RIOT program tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour

February 10, 2013

Source: Guardian A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites. A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an “extreme-scale analytics” system created by Raytheon, the world’s fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people [...]

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Who controls the Internet?

February 7, 2013

Source: Business Line Internet governance is an important policy and governance issue that has been raised at international level. Since the World Summit on Internet Society in 2003, nations have called for a transparent, democratic and multilateral governance of the Internet. This is against the current global governance by Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and [...]

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U.K. spy agencies plan to install Web snooping ‘black boxes’

February 5, 2013

Source: ZDNET The ‘black box’ snooping devices would also be used to collect data from overseas companies, including U.S.-based service providers and social networks, such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. The U.K.’s intelligence agencies are planning to install ‘black box’-style surveillance devices in the country’s telecommunications infrastructure to monitor the U.K.’s online activity. According to [...]

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U.S. pre-emptive cyberstrikes will be launched under secret guidelines to protect computer systems

February 4, 2013

Source: Independent The US could launch pre-emptive cyber strikes against countries it suspects of threatening its interests with a digital attack, under a new set of secret guidelines to safeguard the nation’s computer systems. The rules – the country’s first on how it defends or retaliates against digital attacks – are expected to be approved [...]

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Nano helicopter drone for UK troops in Afghanistan

February 3, 2013

Source: BBC The drones can fly around corners and obstacles to identify potential hidden dangers, the Ministry of Defence said.The Norwegian-designed Black Hornet Nano features a tiny camera and relays video and still images to a handheld control terminal. It measures about 10cm by 2.5cm (4in by 1in) and weighs 16g (0.6oz).The MoD, which also [...]

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US military plans drone base near Mali: Official

January 28, 2013

Source: Times of India The US military plans to set up a base for drones in northwest Africa to bolster surveillance of al-Qaida’s affiliate in the region as well as allied Islamist extremists, a US official told AFP on Monday. The base for the robotic, unmanned aircraft would likely be located in Niger, on the [...]

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Pentagon to create National, Combat and Cyber Protection Mission Forces

January 27, 2013

Source:SMH/WP The Pentagon has approved a major expansion of its cybersecurity force over the next several years, more than quadrupling its size to bolster the nation’s ability to defend critical computer systems and conduct offensive computer operations against foreign adversaries, according to US officials. The move, requested by the head of the Defence Department’s Cyber [...]

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China trying to encircle India via tech deals with neighbours: RAW

January 23, 2013

Source: Times of India India should counter China’s move to build and run communication networks in its neighbourhood countries such as Nepal and Maldives, the telecom ministry and the national security establishment have cautioned, following an alarm raised by intelligence agencies. The Research & Analysis Wing, India’s external intelligence agency, raised an alarm in early [...]

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CCHR Exposes Psychiatry’s Military Spending to Create Drugged-Out Super-Soldiers

January 23, 2013

Source: Yahoo The mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights announces the last in a four-part series by award-winning investigative journalist Kelly Patricia O’Meara exploring how the nation’s military forces have been used as guinea pigs for psychological and pharmaceutical experiments. This last installment looks at the long standing relationship between the military and [...]

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US Department of Defense Tactical Electromagnetic Cyber Warfare: Plant Malware Through the Air

January 18, 2013

Source: Defense News It was right around that time that scientists began to turn their attention to another project: trying to access these protected networks remotely, through the air, by reading activity via electromagnetic field distortions and inserting code via radio frequencies. Accessing these networks — networks that don’t have wireless routers and aren’t connected [...]

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Undersea pods to hold US war supplies

January 16, 2013

Editors Notes: Pentagon has plans to relocate equipment for future conflicts on land. Pentagon shift toward Asia Pacific – lots of water and little land. Related Article: Army’s Plans to Relocate Gear Offer Map to Future Conflicts Source: Defense Tech The Navy wants to build unmanned platforms that it can place in the depths of [...]

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