The Military Stories for 2012

Researcher Warns That Military Must Prepare For "Mutant" Future 179
Bletchley Park Codebreaker Honored 57
What Debris From North Korea's Rocket Launch Shows 223
Game On War In Syria Explores Ongoing Conflict 62
DARPA Wants Wireless Devices That Can Blast Through the Noise 79
USAF Taps ESPN To Compile Drone "Highlight" Video 114
Who Should Manage the Nuclear Weapons Complex, Civilians Or Military? 183
DARPA's Headless Robotic Mule Takes Load Off Warfighters 210
DARPA Begins Work On 100Gbps Wireless Tech With 120-mile Range 83
WW2 Pigeon Code Decrypted By Canadian? 158
Nvidia Wins $20M In DARPA Money To Work On Hyper-Efficient Chips 72
North Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket 384
Air Force Sends Mystery Mini-Shuttle Back To Space 123
F-16 Engines Stolen From Israeli Air Base 346
SpaceX Awarded First Military Contract 140
Army Tests Autonomous Black Hawk Helicopter 125
Historians Propose National Park To Preserve Manhattan Project Sites 150
Iran Claims To Have Downed Another US Drone 219
Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks Source) Given Hearing After 2 Years In Jail 369
Carl Sagan Was On US Team To Nuke the Moon 206
The Secret To Iranian Drone Technology? Just Add Photoshop 183
Real-World Cyber City Used To Train Cyber Warriors 59
What's It Like To Pilot a Drone? a Bit Like Call of Duty 170
Cyber Corps Program Trains Spies For the Digital Age, In Oklahoma 118
Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge 388
After Weeks of Trying, UK Cryptographers Fail To Crack WWII Code 263
U.S. Denies Using Flame Malware To Spy On French President 52
Why Iron Dome Might Only Work For Israel 377
Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works 861
'Ban Killer Bots,' Urges Human Rights Watch 297
Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time 733
Anonymous Attacks Israeli Websites In Response To IDF Operation In Gaza 560
Invisibility Tech Demo Tomorrow In NYC 86
US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent 362
Amazon Donates 2,000 Kindles To Wounded Veterans 62
NRC Report Links Climate Change To National Security 242
CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns, Citing Affair 401
Navy Seals Disciplined For Revealing Secrets As Consultants On Video Game 204
Bradley Manning Offers Partial Guilty Plea To Military Court 380
New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles 279
China's Stealth Fighter Flight Test Successful 161
Most US Drones Still Beam Video Unencrypted 138
WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney 287
Department of Homeland Security Wants Nerds For a New "Cyber Reserve'" 204
NASA Teams To Build Gyroscopes 1,000X More Sensitive Than Current Systems 91
More Drones Set To Use US Air Space 223
Designing DNA Specific Bio-Weapons 227
US and Canada Launch Joint Cybersecurity Plan 42
Pakastani Politician Detained By US Customs Over Opposition To Drone Strikes 560
Iran's High Tech Copycat War Against the West: Drones and Cyberwar 159
Crashed X-51A Test Results Released 48
72% of Xbox 360 Gamers Approve of "More Military Drone Strikes" 446
Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs 341
3-D Printing Enables UVA Student-Built Unmanned Plane 87
Chuck Yeager Re-Enacts the Historic Flight That Broke the Sound Barrier 122
US Navy Cruiser and Submarine Collide 236
Air Force Lab Test Out "Aircraft Surfing" Technique To Save Fuel 205
Apple Maps Accidentally Reveals Secret Military Base In Taiwan 131
US Air Force's 1950s Supersonic Flying Saucer Declassified 300
US Congress Rules Huawei a 'Security Threat' 186
Russian High-Tech Export Scandal Produces 8 Arrests in Houston 83
82-Year-Old Nun Breaks Into Nuclear Facility, Contractors Blamed 223
The US Navy's Railgun Program 321
White House Confirms Chinese Cyberattack 212
Obama Blocks Chinese Wind Farms In Oregon Over National Security 226
PlaceRaider Builds a Model of Your World With Smartphone Photos 120
Aircraft Carriers In Space 409
Air Force Foresaw Fatal F-22 Problems; Rejected $100,000 Fix As Too Expensive 232
United States Navy Names Ship After Neil Armstrong 71
Air Force Sets First Post In Ambitious Space Fence Project 65
US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" 805
DNC Salute to Vets Featured Backdrop Of Russian Warships 218
Stanford-NYU Report: Drone Attacks Illegal, Counterproductive 362
US Military Tested the Effects of a Nuclear Holocaust On Beer 215
DARPA Unveils System Using Human Brains For Computer Vision 82
Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans 718
China Unveils Yet Another Stealth Fighter 223
50 Years of Research and Still No Microwave Weapons 154
Towards a 50% Efficient Solar Cell 129
Following FEMA's Zombie Preparedness Plan Could Land You On Terrorist List 527
DARPA's Robo-Cheetah Is Now Faster Than Usain Bolt 91
Why Apple Should Stop Censoring Apps 144
DARPA's 'Phoenix' Program To Bring Satellites Back From the Dead 88
US Army To Train Rats To Save Soldiers' Lives 110
Russia's New Secure Android Tablet Keeps Data From Google 127
Apple Rejects Drone Strike App 234
Russia Wants a Hypersonic Bomber 319
Air Force Openly Seeking Cyberweapons 91
New Face Paint Protects Soldiers Against Bomb Blasts 107
Grumman Building Football Field-Sized Robotic Surveillance Blimp 150
Monitoring Weapons Bans With Social Media 71
Meet DARPA's New Militarized Earthworm 83
War By Remote Control, With Military Robots Set To Self Destruct 144
US Is Finally Cleaning Up Agent Orange In Vietnam 277
DARPA Creates 0.85 THz Solid State Receiver 84
Air Force Claims To Have Solved Fatal F-22 Oxygen Riddle 172
US Missile Defense Staff Told To Stop Watching Porn 187
US Navy Admiral Questions Expensive Stealth Platforms 490
US Army Developing Armor Tailored For Females 310
F-Secure Report: Another SCADA Attack in Iran — This Time With AC/DC 253
NSA Chief To Address Hackers At DEF CON 136
Harvard Study Suggests Drone Strikes Can Disrupt Terror Groups 429
Trolling Al Qaeda... For Peace? 207
The Hivemind Singularity 277
Entangled Histories: Climate Science and Nuclear Weapons Research 92
Defense Expert: Hire Hackers and Wage War 157
Laser Powers Lockheed Martin's Stalker Drone For 48 Hours 129
How a 1960s Discovery In Neuroscience Spawned a Military Project 112
50th Anniversary of the Starfish Prime Nuclear Weapon Test Today 190
Nukes Are "The Only Peacekeeping Weapons the World Has Ever Known," Says Waltz 707
Ask Slashdot: VPN Service For a Deployed US Navy Ship? 349
GPS Spoofing Attack Hacks Drones 214
Drug-Sniffing Drones Take Flight Over Bolivia 84
Army Creates a Directed Lightning Bolt Weapon 214
Pentagon's In-Orbit Satellite Recycling Program Moving Forward 115
While the U.S. and Iran Negotiate, War Commences In Cyberspace 181
How the Militarization of the Internet is Changing Warfare 204
'Nuclear Free' Maryland City Grants Waiver For HP 277
Iran Claims New Cyber Attack On Its Nuclear Plants, Blames US and Allies 289
The World's First Supercavitating Boat? 186
Schneier Calls US Stuxnet Cyberattack a 'Destabilizing and Dangerous' Action 351
It's Baaack! XB-37B Finally Lands 123
Pentagon Contractors Openly Post Job Listings For Offensive Hackers 149
64 Drone Bases Located On American Soil 234
Drones, Computer Viruses and Blowback 257
The Next Arms Race: Cyberweapons 125
Linux For Navy Drone Ground Stations 78
Trained Rats Map Minefields With GPS 103
Germany Readying Offensive Cyberwarfare Unit, Parliament Told 55
After a Year In Orbit, US Air Force's X37-B Will Conclude Its Secret Mission 243
Boeing Hydrogen Powered Drone First Flight 160
NASA Gets Two Military Spy Telescopes For Astronomy 237
Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir 360
The Nice Guy At the World's Largest Weapons Expo 180
New Evidence Indicates Amelia Earhart Survived For a Time on Pacific Atoll 365
Remembering America's Fresh Water Submarines 225
Iran Reverse Engineers Cobra Attack Helicopter 532
Fire May Leave US Nuclear Sub Damaged Beyond Repair 228
Bioethicist Jonathan Moreno Talks Jacked-In Soldiers And Military Neuroscience 117
DARPA Pays $3.5 Million For New TechShops and Secret Reconfigurable Factories 116
Sci-fi Writer Elizabeth Moon Believes Everyone Should Be Chipped 409
The Price of Military Tech Assistance In Movies 212
Kaspersky Calls For Cyber Weapons Convention 166
Sidestepping Tactical Nuclear Weapons Limits With Strategic Bombs 138
DreamHammer Wants To Corner the Drone OS Market 125
RunCore Introduces Self-Destructable SSD 168
Federal Court Rejects NDAA's Indefinite Detention, Issues Injunction 301
UK In Danger From Electromagnetic Bomb, Says Defense Secretary 268
Britain Bringing Out 'Sonic Gun' For Olympics Security 193
US Air Force Can 'Accidentally' Spy On American Citizens For 90 Days 200
America's Next Bomber: Unmanned, Unlimited Range, Aimed At China 400
Some USAF Pilots Refuse To Fly F-22 Raptor 569
Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat 397
Russia Threatens Pre-emptive, Destructive Force On US Missile Defense 675
NASA Boss Accused of Breaking Arms Trade Laws 88
Congress Wants To Resurrect Laser-Wielding 747 302
Surface-To-Air Missiles At London Olympics 395
Navy To Auction Stealth Ship 124
Squadron of Lost WWII Spitfires To Be Exhumed In Burma 142
WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan 650
US Journalists Targeted By Pentagon Propaganda Contractors 232
Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone 350
Hypersonic Test Aircraft Peeled Apart After 3 Minutes of Sustained Mach 20 Speed 191
India Test Fires Long-Range, Nuke-Capable Missile 336
US and China Held Secret Cyber Wargames 71
Why Drones Could Be the Future of Missile Defense 167
Sixty Years On, B-52s Are Still Going Strong 403
Experts Warn Of Possible North Korean Nuclear Test 101
Statistical Analysis Raises Civil War Death Count By 20% 139
US Government Licenses Unreal Game Engine To Train FBI Agents and Army Medics 54
New Tech Makes Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Verifiable 93
America's Secret Underground Ice Fortresses 134
U.S. Government Hires Company To Hack Into Video Game Consoles 121
Robot Helicopters To Single Out Pirate Ships 123
F-18 Fighter Jet Crashes Into Virginia Apartment Complex 295
Coming To a War Near You: Nuclear Powered Drones 202
Navy Planning To Build Laser Cannon In Four Years 195
Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre 195
GAO Sting Finds More Fake Military Parts From China 180
11-lb Robot Can Jump 30 Feet Into the Air 68
DoD Networks Completely Compromised, Experts Say 164
Meet the Hackers Who Get Rich Selling Spies Zero-Day Exploits 158
Researchers Create Chemically Powered Robotic Jellyfish 36
U.S. Missile Defense Against Iran Makes China/Russia Mad, Might Not Even Work 408
Pentagon Wants Disposable War Satellites 120
Journalist Gets Blasted By the Pentagon's Pain Ray — Twice 357
USS Enterprise Takes Its Final Voyage 455
NATO Awards Largest Cyber-Security Contract To Date 45
Measuring China's Cyberwar Threat 79
Prototype Space Fence Now Tracking Actual Orbital Debris 33
Iran War Clock Set At Ten Minutes To Midnight 315
Robot Firefighter To Throw Extinguisher Grenades 78
X-37B Space Plane Marks One Year In Space 75
DARPA-Funded 'Cheetah' Breaks Speed Record For Legged Robots 96
Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs 609
North Korea Agrees To Suspend Nuclear Activities 221
US Military Working On 'Optionally-Manned' Bomber 278
Secret UK Network Hunts GPS Jammers 228
Ask Slashdot: What Would Real Space Combat Look Like? 892
Nuclear Truckers Haul Warheads Across US 461
DARPA Researches Avatar Surrogates 159
"Cyberwar" As a Carrot For Those Selling the Stick 115
US Air Force Buys iPads To Replace Flight Bags 348
BigDog Robot Gets Much Bigger 158
U.S. Navy Receives First Industry Built Railgun Prototype 277
DARPA Investing In Electric Brain Stimulation To Train Snipers Quickly 124
Sanctions Or Not, Iranian Competition Yields Successful UAVs 147
India Turns Down American Fighter Jets, Buys From France 600
DARPA Works On Virtual Reality Contact Lenses 129
Self-Guided Bullet Can Hit Targets a Mile Away 421
Pentagon: 30,000 Pound Bomb Too Small 612
Mechanic's Mistake Trashes $244 Million Aircraft 428
DARPA Targets Computing's Achilles Heel: Power 100
Aging U-2 Will Fight On Into the Next Decade 266
Pentagon Drafts Kids To Build Drones and Robots 173
Air Force Says Iran Didn't Down Drone 248
International Organization To Assess Earth Defense From Space Dangers 93
DoD Using Plant DNA To Combat Counterfeit Parts 39
Pentagon To Crowdsource Weapons Software Testing 80
The Iraq War, the Next War, and the Future of the Fat Man 380
Navy May Use Mine-Detecting Dolphins In the Straight of Hormuz 204
The New Transparency of War and Lethality of Hatred 591
US Navy Developing App-Summoned Robotic Helicopter 69
Almost 1 In 3 US Warplanes Is a Drone 328
Could a Dirty Rag Take Out a $2 Billion Satellite? 297
North Korean Nuclear Facilities, From 30,000 Feet 182
Israel Says It Will Treat Online Credit Card Theft As It Would Terrorism 422
Drones Within a Drone Riding a Balloon 108
Iran Tests Naval Cruise Missile During War Games 547
Lax Security At Russian Rocket Plant 116