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Detecting biological contamination in the field can be difficult. Military personnel operating in an unfamiliar environment ...

Giving AI agents the ability to conduct cybersecurity testing creates a difficult containment problem. An autonomous system ...

Small, unmanned boats are increasingly being used for surveillance, logistics and other maritime missions, but their ...

As wireless networks become faster and more demanding, the tiny radio-frequency chips inside smartphones and communication ...

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Counter-drone systems are becoming an essential part of military base protection, but knowing whether they will perform as ...

Large-scale air combat exercises face a practical limitation: creating a realistic battlefield can require dozens of aircraft ...

Monitoring large areas beneath the sea is difficult, expensive and potentially dangerous. Crewed submarines and surface ...

Windows 11 uses hardware-backed security to isolate sensitive information even from software with administrator privileges.

Drones increasingly need to operate at night, through smoke and in other conditions where conventional cameras struggle.