The Military Stories for 2014

US Army Could Waive Combat Training For Hackers 223
War Tech the US, Russia, China and India All Want: Hypersonic Weapons 290
CIA on UFO Sightings: 'It Was Us' 197
Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' 279
US Navy Sells 'Top Gun' Aircraft Carrier For One Penny 118
DARPA Wants Help Building a Drone That Flies Like a Hawk 42
"Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too 230
Australia Moves Toward New Restrictions On Technology Export and Publication 91
Navy Develops a Shark Drone For Surveillance 45
Army To Launch Spy Blimp Over Maryland 177
Army Building an Airport Just For Drones 48
US Navy Authorizes Use of Laser In Combat 225
CIA Lied Over Brutal Interrogations 772
Man Caught Trying To Sell Plans For New Aircraft Carrier 388
In North Korea, Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite 102
Every Weapon, Armored Truck, and Plane the Pentagon Gave To Local Police 191
Auto Industry Teams Up With Military To Stop Car Hacking 114
How the Pentagon's Robots Would Automate War 117
Nuclear Weapons Create Their Own Security Codes With Radiation 106
Ukraine's IT Brigade Supports the Troops 140
Halting Problem Proves That Lethal Robots Cannot Correctly Decide To Kill Humans 335
Military Laser/Radio Tech Proposed As Alternative To Laying Costly Fiber Cable 150
Machine Learning Used To Predict Military Suicides 74
Alleged Satellite Photo Says Ukraine Shootdown of MH17 340
Google To Lease and Refurbish Naval Air Base For Space Exploration 89
The Disgruntled Guys Who Babysit Our Aging Nuclear Missiles 176
The Military's Latest Enemy: Climate Change 163
The Plane Crash That Gave Us GPS 236
Buying Goods To Make Nuclear Weapons On eBay, Alibaba, and Other Platforms 260
A Mysterious Piece of Russian Space Junk Does Maneuvers 146
Pentagon Builds Units To Transport Ebola Patients 117
US Army May Relax Physical Requirements To Recruit Cyber Warriors 308
Peter Kuran:Visual Effects Artist and Atomic Bomb Archivist 37
British Army Looking For Gamers For Their Smart-Tanks 163
Shooting At Canadian Parliament 529
No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade 334
India Successfully Launches Region-Specific Navigation Satellite 86
Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq 376
Navy Tests Unpowered Exoskeleton 79
Pentagon Unveils Plan For Military's Response To Climate Change 228
Secretive X-37B Military Space Plane Could Land On Tuesday 81
Air Force To Take Over Two Ex-Shuttle Hangers In Florida For Its X-37B Program 48
Former Department of Defense Chief Expects "30 Year War" 425
Why Military Personnel Make the Best IT Pros 299
US Navy Develops Robot Boat Swarm To Overwhelm Enemies 142
JP Morgan Chase Breach: Shades of a Cyber Cold War? 96
DARPA Technology Could Uncover Counterfeit Microchips 35
Four Charged With Stealing Army Helicopter Training Software 46
Marines Put Microsoft Kinect To Work For 3D Mapping 37
US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria 478
US Revamping Its Nuclear Arsenal 342
US Military Aware Only Belatedly of Chinese Attacks Against Transport Contractors 13
Obama Presses Leaders To Speed Ebola Response 221
How Governments Are Getting Around the UN's Ban On Blinding Laser Weapons 180
DARPA Funds Harvard's Soft Exoskeletal Suit 29
Publishers Gave Away 123 Million Books During World War Two 121
Ask Slashdot: Robotics or Electronic Kits For Wounded Veterans? 115
L.A. Times National Security Reporter Cleared Stories With CIA Before Publishing 188
3 Decades Later, Finnair Pilots Report Dramatic Close Encounter With a Missile 138
New US Airstrikes In Iraq Intended to Protect Important Dam 215
Could Tech Have Stopped ISIS From Using Our Own Heavy Weapons Against Us? 448
DARPA Bolsters Blueprint To Build Robotic Services For Satellites 10
The Argument For a Hypersonic Missile Testing Ban 322
Invasion of Ukraine Continues As Russia Begins Nuclear Weapons Sabre Rattling 789
NATO Set To Ratify Joint Defense For Cyberattacks 34
Islamic State "Laptop of Doom" Hints At Plots Including Bubonic Plague 369
No, a Stolen iPod Didn't Brick Ben Eberle's Prosthetic Hand 122
Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine 848
Air Force Requests Info For Replacement Atlas 5 Engine 108
Finding an ISIS Training Camp Using Google Earth 134
Would Scottish Independence Mean the End of UK's Nuclear Arsenal? 375
Two Years of Data On What Military Equipment the Pentagon Gave To Local Police 264
DARPA Contemplates Vast Ocean Network 12
DARPA Uses Preteen Gamers To Beta Test Tomorrow's Military Software 84
Snowden: NSA Working On Autonomous Cyberwarfare Bot 194
DARPA Wants To Kill the Password 383
Point-and-Shoot: TrackingPoint's New Linux-Controlled AR-15s 219
Long-Wave Radar Can Take the Stealth From Stealth Technology 275
IBM Creates Custom-Made Brain-Like Chip 105
Japan To Launch a Military Space Force In 2019 150
The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict 402
China Confirms New Generation of ICBM 224
Was America's Top Rocketeer a Communist Spy? The FBI Thought So 165
Nuclear Missile Command Drops Grades From Tests To Discourage Cheating 122
Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms That Built 'Iron Dome' Missile Defense 184
Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline 868
Google's Mapping Contest Draws Ire From Indian Government 96
The Army Is 3D Printing Warheads 140
"Magic Helmet" For F-35 Ready For Delivery 184
MIT's Ted Postol Presents More Evidence On Iron Dome Failures 454
Preparing For Satellite Defense 118
Russia Prepares For Internet War Over Malaysian Jet 503
US Marines Demonstrate Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connector Prototype 91
A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System 379
DARPA Successfully Demonstrates Self-Guiding Bullets 188
Today In Year-based Computer Errors: Draft Notices Sent To Men Born In the 1800s 205
The Pentagon's $399 Billion Plane To Nowhere 364
Radical Dual Tilting Blade Helicopter Design Targets Speeds of Over 270mph 103
An Army Medal For Coding In Perl 192
The Military Is About To Get New Augmented Reality Spy Glasses 58
Court Releases DOJ Memo Justifying Drone Strike On US Citizen 371
The Revolutionary American Weapons of War That Never Happened 133
When Drones Fall From the Sky 97
Why China Is Worried About Japan's Plutonium Stocks 398
British Army Turns To Oculus Rift To Take the Sting Out of Battlefield Trauma 23
Gecko Feet Inspire Hand-Held Spider-Man Paddles 64
Canada Poised To Buy 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 JSFs 417
DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge Offers $3.75 Million In Prizes 10
B-52 Gets First Full IT Upgrade Since 1961 190
DARPA Unveils Hack-Resistant Drone 107
Report: Samsung Building VR Headset For Its Phones & Tablets 49
Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites? 298
U.S. Drone Attack Strategy Against Al-Qaeda May Be Wrong 433
Pentagon Document Lays Out Battle Plan Against Zombies 131
US Navy Wants Smart Robots With Morals, Ethics 165
Gen. Keith Alexander On Metadata, Snowden, and the NSA: "We're At Greater Risk" 238
Air Force Prepares to Dismantle HAARP 178
US Navy Develops World's Worst E-reader 249
UN to Debate Use of Fully Autonomous Weapons, New Report Released 180
Feds: Sailor Hacked Navy Network While Aboard Nuclear Aircraft Carrier 43
Former NSA Director: 'We Kill People Based On Metadata' 155
SpaceX Injunction Dissolved 98
The Struggle To Ban Killer Robots 138
China Using Troop of Trained Monkeys To Guard Air Base 119
US Military Drones Migrating To Linux 197
Norway Is Gamifying Warfare By Driving Tanks With Oculus Rift 106
US Government To Study Bitcoin As Possible Terrorist Threat 210
U-2 Caused Widespread Shutdown of US Flights Out of LAX 128
The Guy Who Unknowingly 'Live-Blogged' the Bin Laden Raid 142
US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks 481
Minesweepers Robotic Competition Aims For a Landmine-Free World 103
DARPA Develops Stealth Motorcycle For US Special Forces 93
How the Code War Has Replaced the Cold War 79
SpaceX Files Suit Against US Air Force 176
Identity Dominance: the US Military's Biometric War In Afghanistan 83
Former US Test Site Sues Nuclear Nations For Disarmament Failure 165
The $5,600 Tablet 96
Expert Warns: Civilian World Not Ready For Massive EMP-Caused Blackout 271
Declassified Papers Hint US Uranium May Have Ended Up In Israeli Arms 165
AT Black Knight Transformer Hits the Road and Takes a Hop 33
Fruit Flies, Fighter Jets Use Similar Evasive Tactics When Attacked 65
Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 630
Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater 256
Japan Orders Military To Strike Any New North Korea Missiles 107
DARPA Embraces Nature With Establishment of Biological Technologies Office 40
Technocrat James Schlesinger Is Dead At 85 33
Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea 551
Iran Builds Mock-up of Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier 298
Navy Database Tracks Civilians' Parking Tickets, Fender-Benders 96
Russian Army Spetsnaz Units Arrested Operating In Ukraine 623
Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" 878
US Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost 145
Harsh Wireless Conditions? Send In the Drone Hot Spot 20
Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP 498
The Brief Rise and Long Fall of Russia's Robot Tank 79
In Ukraine, Cyber War With Russia Heating Up 256
Bugatti 100P Rebuilt: The Plane That Could've Turned the Battle of Britain 353
WikiLeaks Cables Foreshadow Russian Instigation of Ukrainian Military Action 479
Navy Won't Investigate Nuclear Pollution At San Francisco's Treasure Island 121
US War Machine Downsizing? 506
Study Shows Agent Orange Still Taints Aging C-123s 166
S. Korea's Cyberwar Against N. Korea's Nukes 57
Iran's Hacking of US Navy 'Extensive,' Repairs Took $10M and 4 Months 147
N. Korea Could Face Prosecution For 'Crimes Against Humanity' 325
DARPA Training Cadets and Midshipmen As Cyber Warriors 65
Scientists Create Pizza That Can Last Years 225
IE Zero-Day Exploit Used In Attack Targeting Military Intelligence 58
How Online Clues Located North Korea's Missile-Launcher Factories 71
Death By Metadata: The NSA's Secret Role In the US Drone Strike Program 202
DARPA Seeks the Holy Grail of Search Engines 78
Do Hypersonic Missiles Make Defense Systems Obsolete? 365
Why Robot Trucks Could Be Headed To Afghanistan (And Everywhere Else) 135
Military Electronics That Shatter Into Dust On Command 221
Skinny Puppy Wants Compensation For Music Used in US Interrogations 271
How Edward Snowden's Actions Have Impacted Defense Contractors 180
Second World War Code-cracking Computing Hero Colossus Turns 70 110
DARPA Publishes Tons of Open Source Code, Data 39
Many Lasers Become One In Lockheed Martin's 30 kW Laser Weapon 202
South Koreans Using Kinect To Monitor DMZ 133
In an Age of Cyber War, Where Are the Cyber Weapons? 94
Where Old Hard Disks (with Digital Secrets) Go To Die 128
Half of US Nuclear Missile Wing Implicated In Cheating 313
U.S. Border Patrol Drone Goes Down, Rest of Fleet Grounded 138
New Russian Fighter Not Up To Western Standards 354
More Bad News For the F-35 401
How To Make 96,000lbs of WWII Machinery Into High-Tech Research Platform 150
How Quickly Will the Latest Arms Race Accelerate? 197
Roadable, Vertical-Takeoff Aircraft Is Eager To Hit the Battlefield 87
Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? 514
Are New Technologies Undermining the Laws of War? 317
RAF Fighter Flies On Printed Parts 100
U.S. Waived Laws To Keep F-35 On Track With China-made Parts 348