Enlarge / An American ISAF solider from team Apache of Task Force Geronimo, 4th Platoon Delaware of the United States Army, collects biometric information from an Afghan villager in the village of Mans Kalay in Sabari, Khost district on August 4, 2012. reader comments 47 with 0 posters participating Share this story When a German ..
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reader comments 41 with 0 posters participating Share this story In a press conference that Ars attended today, Department of Defense officials discussed the benefits of partnering with Google, Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon to build the Pentagon’s new cloud computing network. The multi-cloud strategy was described as a necessary move to keep military personnel current ..
Enlarge / A Project Nimbus cloud contract with the Israeli government has some Google and Amazon workers upset. reader comments 77 with 52 posters participating Share this story Hundreds of Google workers and their supporters gathered near the company’s downtown San Francisco offices Thursday, raising signs that read “No Tech for Apartheid” and filling the ..
reader comments 51 with 36 posters participating, including story author Share this story Intel announced Monday that it has been awarded a contract for foundry services through a Department of Defense program intended to support leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing in the US. Though Intel’s share of the estimated $100 million award wasn’t disclosed, it is certain ..
reader comments 86 with 62 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, the US Army formally moved forward with the largest ever government-related deal for headsets in the virtual and augmented reality sector: a 10-year agreement with Microsoft to provide 120,000 headsets “based” on the HoloLens line. Reports by CNBC and Bloomberg point to a ..
Enlarge / The Pentagon in its natural habitat—Arlington, Virginia—in 2018. reader comments 87 with 65 posters participating Share this story Amazon is continuing to fight the Department of Defense over a $10 billion contract, as the Pentagon has completed its review of the deal and determined once again that it was correct to award the ..
Enlarge / An aerial view of the Pentagon, the Potomac river, and parts of Washington, DC, taken back before a pandemic started keeping most of those cars in the commuter lot at home. reader comments 71 with 61 posters participating Share this story The Department of Defense’s internal probe into a controversial $10 billion cloud-computing ..
Enlarge / How did we get here again? US Marine Corps / DVIDS reader comments 81 with 59 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Department of Defense has weighed in against a proposal before the Federal Communications Commission to open the 1 to 2 Gigahertz frequency range—the L band—for use in 5G ..
Enlarge / Ballistic missile defenses will be one of the things that would be shifted into the space force. (credit: Department of Defense) Today, Vice President Mike Pence gave a speech at the Pentagon in which he filled in some details on the administration’s plans to add a distinct space force to the Department of ..
Enlarge (credit: Sean Gallagher) Figuring out what information should be classified and controlling access to it has been an eternal headache for defense and national security organizations—a headache that got a lot of attention during the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of personal emails. Even people with a more clear understanding ..