technology

US military proposes secure, self-destructing messaging app

The U.S. military needs new messaging technology that’s ultra-secure and self-destructs. Sound familiar? Think SnapChat. That’s an important part of what the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is aiming to do via a request for proposals posted on a DOD Web page. In Phase III of the project, DARPA says it requires “a secure […]

Watch: 633 MPH – The U.S. Air Force Breaks MagLev Speed Record

The previous record was held by Japan at only 366 MPH and without any rockets. The Air Force’s rocket sled crushes that record, at 633 MPH The sled could theoretically traverse the continental United States in about four hours. – With the flick of a spark the 846th Test Squadron’s magnetically levitated sled system or MagLev, broke a world […]

Watch: Latest Chinese Propaganda Suggests Westerns as Spies

China has been on an espionage campaign in America and the west; targeting military secrets and technology. It appears that their success has ignited the air with suspicion in the PRC. With any luck, the Chinese will cripple themselves with paranoia and witch-hunts. – China recently held its first “National Security Education Day”. Materials were distributed […]

U.S. Charges Woman for Exporting Underwater Drone Technology to China

SOFREP recently covered UUVs that are set for deployment in the South China Sea. – A Florida woman was charged with conspiring to illegally export U.S. technology used in underwater drones to a Chinese state-owned entity, according to an indictment unsealed on Thursday. Amin Yu, 53, of Orlando, Florida worked from 2002 until February 2014 […]

Developing a New Reality: Inside the World’s Most Secretive Startup

There is something special happening in a generic office park in an uninspiring suburb near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Inside, amid the low gray cubicles, clustered desks, and empty swivel chairs, an impossible 8-inch robot drone from an alien planet hovers chest-high in front of a row of potted plants. It is steampunk-cute, minutely detailed. I […]

Meet the Army’s gear testers: Lucky soldiers who get to play with new toys

A group of Fort Hood-based soldiers are the latest subjects of the Army’s lone independent testing agency: Part lab rats, part product reviewers, all partners in Operational Test Command’s mission to get the service’s future gear as close to perfect as possible. Some will fill out more than 1,000 comment cards as they put the […]

Spray On Stealth Technology is Imminent

The possible military uses for this new adaptive technology are extensive. The ink contained within the spray embodies electromagnetic components that can adjust their electrical change through voltage-control. In addition to doing the same work as whip antennas and radar arrays, the ink could also help military vehicles gain stealth by steering enemy radar waves […]

How Mexican Drug Cartels are Winning the Information Technology War

Mexican drug cartels are winning the battle of technology leaving the U.S. in the dark. As critical communication techniques used to communicate information such movement, planning and operations are continuously exploited in a behind the scenes game of deception between cartels and U.S. Agencies, led by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The cartels that […]

Lasers on the Battlefield – Lockheed is Bringing the Heat

The problematic and often complicated entanglement of the individual and technology continues to define and hinder the deployment of innovative advancements into general defense applications. Improving technology is out there, despite the many Luddites fears of hackers, EMPs, and bears, oh my. On the other hand our science, technology, engineering and math scores have not exactly been […]

Marine Corps encouraging task force to replace Prowler attack aircraft

The US Marine Corps (USMC) is preparing a system of electronic warfare capabilities on board several aircraft and other assets known as Marine Air-Ground Task Force Electronic Warfare (MAGTF EW) to replace its retiring Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler electronic attack aircraft, a representative for the service said on 7 March. “Under MAGTF EW the Marine […]

U.S. spending big money on microchips that will allow brain to control techology

Washington (CNN) – The U.S. military is spending millions on an advanced implant that would allow a human brain to communicate directly with computers. If it succeeds, cyborgs will be a reality. The Pentagon’s research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), hopes the implant will allow humans to directly interface with computers, which […]

Hypersonic weapons on the verge of reality for U.S. military

The US Air Force will be flying operational prototypes of hypersonic weapons by 2020. At least that’s according to Major General Thomas Masiello, commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory, who spoke last Friday at the Air Force Association Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida. This may mean that hypersonics are just about through what […]