A US program office to develop a plan to oversee the testing of offensive cyber weapons could be set up as early as April next year for $30 million. Michael Gilmore, director of operational test and evaluation at the Office of the Secretary of Defense during a keynote address at the Cyber Risk Standards Summit In Arlington Tuesday said, “A program office could be stood up as soon as April, and at the cost of about $30 million, to develop a plan to oversee the testing of offensive cyber weapons which would inform the analog of the Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manual...
DARPA is soliciting research proposals in technologies that enable network interoperability among airborne platforms in adversarial environments. DARPA has issued a request for proposals to enable manned and unmanned air systems to rapidly, securely, and automatically share information across diverse waveforms and networks despite adversary jamming, it said in a statement Wednesday
Russian researchers are working on new computer software that will trawl social networks for IS militant recruiters. The researchers are working on reconstructing the profile of a potential recruiter to Islamic state through social networks
Russia has denied using Buk missile in the Malaysian MH17 flight crash that happened last summer and says that it was done by the missile in possession of Ukrainian troops within three-four kilometres area. The official report however have concluded that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Russian-made BUK missile fired from rebel-held eastern Ukraine
Siberia has created an unmanned aircraft for extreme condition operations of the Arctic region. "This is the third generation of UAVs, which can operate in temperatures ranging from minus 40 to plus 45 degrees with wind up to 15 meters per second, in rain and snow," head of the Omsk State Technical Universitys Experimental Design Bureau Small Unmanned Vehicles, Pavel Pogarsky was quoted as saying by TASS on Tuesday
India may have delayed participating in the Russian Fifth generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) project to explore other options, namely the Lockheed Martin built F-35. A talk in the corridors of South Block, headquarters of the ministry of defence (MoD) goes that the reason the IAF and the MoD is seeking to reduce the numbers of the Russian FGFAs is to have an option of purchasing another variety of fifth generation aircraft
Oshkosh is unveiling its MRAP All-Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV) 6x6 Technology Demonstrator, at the ongoing AUSA in Washington, D.C
North Korea does not have the technology to mount nuclear warheads on its ballistic missiles. “Pyongyang has made considerable progress in miniaturizing nuclear warheads but it still needs to develop a technology to mount them on missiles,” South Korean Defense Ministry sources were quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency
India will come up with new set of guidelines that will remove sales commissions to arms agents later this month. Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar speaking at a public interaction event in Panaji, Goa on Sunday said, “Giving percentage is very risky in India
Russia and China have agreed to extend subsidized loans to accelerate the co-development work on long-haul aircraft and heavy helicopter projects. “With regard to joint projects in aviation, the creation of a wide-body aircraft [and] developing a heavy helicopter, we have agreed on the possibility of allocating preferential loans to work at a faster pace,”, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was quoted as saying by Sputnik International on Monday