Posted from STARGATE007 | Spies, Lies, ... 5 days ago
Intelligence Services : General topics of intelligence
Since the UFO SOAP OPERA ultimately includes every human being ever born on this planet, any guide to the soap must necessarily be an abridged version.It is also true that the majority of characters in this tale of otherworldly interests are guilty simply by association. That said, it is also true ... (original story)
Posted from Wired: Danger Room 5 days ago
Intelligence Services : National and international security matters
Illustration: Sony The elite forces of the U.S. military think they’ve found a new way to sway opinion in the Pentagon’s preferred directions: a voice-based social networking app that’s a cross between talk radio and Twitter. The American intelligence and defense communities have ... (original story)
Posted from Wired: Danger Room 5 days ago
Intelligence Services : National and international security matters
Photo: Leptron The Navy is hoping to one day run a huge chunk of its fleet on biofuels. So the Navy’s advanced researchers — and their partners at the U.S. Department of Agriculture — are turning to a tiny robotic helicopter to help them figure out which crop they might be able to ... (original story)
Posted from Wired: Danger Room 8 days ago
Intelligence Services : National and international security matters
Chief Scientists of the Air Force usually spend their time trying to figure out how to build better satellites or make jets go insanely fast. Which makes Dr. Mark Maybury, today’s chief scientist, a bit of an outlier. He’d like to build a set of sensors that peer into people’s sou... (original story)
Posted from Wired: Danger Room 8 days ago
Intelligence Services : National and international security matters
Photo: Cyberslayer/Flickr The U.S. military’s struggling to prevent counterfeit goods from infiltrating their supply chains. Now, they’re considering a novel approach to give legit wares a mark of distinction: embed them with strands of plant DNA. Working with a sub-contract from the Def... (original story)
Posted from Wired: Danger Room 8 days ago
Intelligence Services : National and international security matters
For nearly two months, Avaaz, the nonprofit organization that took liberal petitioning online, has had the drone war in its sights. It even threatened to dramatically fly a drone of its own over the White House if President Obama didn’t “stop the killing for good.” But as of Tuesd... (original story)
Posted from Wired: Danger Room 8 days ago
Intelligence Services : National and international security matters
Photo: U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ashley Myers Tensions between the U.S. and Iran are at a high point, as the Islamic Republic threatens to close off a vital waterway and two U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups sit in the seas off the Iranian coast. But across the Persian Gulf... (original story)
Posted from Wired: Danger Room 8 days ago
Intelligence Services : National and international security matters
Photo: U.S. Navy It’s bad enough that the Navy’s newest ship has had wicked problems with corrosion, missed out on the latest naval wartime missions and is generally something of a Frankenstein’s monster. Now the Pentagon’s top weapons tester has found problems with its abili... (original story)
Posted from Wired: Danger Room 8 days ago
Intelligence Services : National and international security matters
Illustration: Arikia Millikan We wish Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez a full and speedy recovery from cancer. Chavez may be a pain in the ass for U.S. interests in Latin America, but cancer is an evil, debilitating disease that no one should endure. To that end, Chavez might want to switch doctors... (original story)
Posted from Wired: Danger Room 8 days ago
Intelligence Services : National and international security matters
The Army wants soldiers of the future to be all they can be — onscreen and off. As the military’s enthusiasm for virtual reality training continues to grow, the Army’s got a new plan to make the programs freakily immersive: National Defense magazine is reporting that the Army want... (original story)