The Pentagon is working to duplicate a modified strain of anthrax reportedly developed by Russian scientists to determine whether the strain is resistant to the anthrax vaccine administered to U.S. military personnel, senior defense officials said yesterday.
The Air Force's top general yesterday endorsed the deployment of space-based weapons to protect the nation's satellites and predicted that the United States would develop the capacity to shoot down other countries' orbiting spacecraft.
While the Bush administration's missile defense plans have triggered opposition in Europe and Asia, at least half a dozen countries are cooperating with the Defense Department on research projects that could play an important role in America's anti-missile system.
A top Pentagon official said today that the Bush administration plans to test a space-based laser interceptor as early as 2005 as part of its ambitious new missile defense agenda.
A series of sophisticated attempts to break into Pentagon computers has continued for more than three years, and an extensive investigation has produced "disturbingly few clues" about who is responsible, according to a member of the National Security Agency's advisory board.
The federal government has licensed a Colorado firm to sell extremely high-resolution satellite photographs to its customers around the world, effectively relinquishing intelligence agencies' monopoly on precision imagery from space.
More Americans have died from scorpion bites than from foreign terrorist attacks over the past five years. But that didn't stop the National Commission on Terrorism from describing the terrorist threat in vastly exaggerated terms earlier this month.
John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists shows how the new era of commercially available high resolution satellite imagery allows ordinary citizens to access the same data formerly available only to the intelligence community.
A leading U.S. cyberwar expert testified before the Joint Economic Committee that sophisticated foreign military and intelligence services represent a far greater threat to America's burgeoning Internet economy than hackers who recently launched "denial of service" attacks against commercial Web sites.
A Colorado firm launched a satellite yesterday to provide pictures for sale to the public that will come closer than ever before to the quality of U.S. intelligence photographs, giving a capability once reserved for superpowers to dictators and human rights groups, terrorists and television stations.