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Larry Cashdollar, senior security response engineer at Akamai, talks about the craziest stories he’s faced, reporting CVEs since 1994. Continue reading 305 CVEs and Counting: Bug-Hunting Stories From a Security Engineer
Lockheed Martin has been selected as the main contractor to conduct a study on how to provide the US Navy with large, autonomous ships that can operate for extended periods without a crew. Part of the Navy’s Large Unmanned Surface Vessel (LUSV) competi… Continue reading US Navy moves a step closer to large unmanned robotic ships
The US Navy’s Blue Angels acrobatic team has taken delivery of its first F/A-18 Super Hornet test aircraft. The fighter is the first of 11 Boeing plans to deliver to the Navy team this year and will be used for flight testing and evaluation.Continue Re… Continue reading US Navy Blue Angels receive first Super Hornet fighter jet
Since 2010, the United States military has been operating a pair of small reusable spaceplanes that conduct secretive long-duration flights in low Earth orbit. Now officially operating under the auspices of the newly formed Space Force, the X-37Bs allow the military to conduct in-house research on new hardware and technology …read more
Continue reading X-37B Spaceplane To Test Power Beaming Technology
Northrop Grumman has completed testing of the US Navy’s new Very Lightweight Torpedo (VLWT). The first industry-built prototype is based on a previous version developed by the Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory (PSU-ARL) that was… Continue reading Northrop Grumman tests Very Lightweight Torpedo for the US Navy
The US Navy has successfully carried out a demonstration of a high-energy laser weapon installed in a warship. On May 16, 2020, the amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) locked onto and disabled an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with its … Continue reading US Navy disables drone using a high-energy shipborne laser weapon
Air-to-air combat or “dogfighting” was once a very personal affair. Pilots of the First and Second World War had to get so close to land a hit with their guns that it wasn’t uncommon for altercations to end in a mid-air collision. But by the 1960s, guided missile technology had …read more
Continue reading Plasma “Ghosts” May Help Keep Future Aircraft Safe
One of the strangest things about human nature is our tendency toward inertia. We take so much uncontrollable change in stride, but when our man-made constructs stop making sense, we’re suddenly stuck in our ways — for instance, the way we measure things in the US, or define daytime throughout …read more
The US Department of Defense (DOD) has completed a successful test of a hypersonic glide body that will be the basis for a future class of hypersonic weapons. The US Army and US Navy jointly launched the Common Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) from the Pa… Continue reading US Department of Defense successfully tests hypersonic glide body
From the Age of Sail through to the Second World War, naval combat was done primarily in close quarters and with cannons. Naturally the technology improved quite a bit in those intervening centuries, but the idea was more or less the same: the ship with the most guns and most …read more
Continue reading US Navy Looking To Retire Futuristic Prototype Ships