No Regrets On JEDI Cloud: DDS Chief Chris Lynch
The famously hoodie-clad founder of the Defense Digital Service defends his legacy as he prepares to hand over the helm.
Hack Us Please X 3: DoD Awards 3 ‘Bug Bounty’ Deals
HackerOne, Synack, and newcomer Bugcrowd split up to $34 million.
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GPS: Still the gold standard in global navigation
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
Government ‘Bug Bounty’ Payouts To Freelance Hackers Up 125%: HackerOne
The Pentagon’s willingness to pay freelance hackers to report cyber vulnerabilities has opened the floodgates for similar programs from other agencies, report the organizers of the original Hack The Pentagon. San Francisco-based HackerOne now counts clients ranging from the US Air Force, Army, and Defense Travel System to the Singaporean Ministry of Defense and the […]
Do Young Humans + Artificial Intelligence = Cybersecurity?
WASHINGTON: The Army is recruiting smart young soldiers to wage cyber war. But human talent is not enough. Ultimately, say experts, cyberspace is so vast, so complex, so constantly changing that only artificial intelligence can keep up. America can’t prevail in cyberspace through superior numbers. We could never match China hacker for hacker. So our […]
Hack Us, Please: DoD Opens Websites To ‘White Hat’ Hackers
PENTAGON: Excited by the success of April’s Hack The Pentagon contest, the Defense Department will allow so-called white hat hackers to test all its unclassified public websites. First, a new policy released today encourages anyone to look for weaknesses in any public DoD site, as long as they report what they find. Then, for a select subset of […]
SecDef Carter Wants YOU For The Defense Digital Service
SAN FRANCISCO: Uncle Sam wants you, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told a skeptical tech community yesterday. It’s part of an all-out effort by the military’s civilian leader to get the technologically best and brightest to work with or even for the often-hidebound Pentagon. Carter has created the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUX) and the Defense Digital Service, both […]
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Turning R&D into reality to meet the challenges of the modern battlefield
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.