President Bush has signed a secret directive ordering the government to develop, for the first time, national-level guidance for determining when and how the United States would launch cyber-attacks against enemy computer networks, according to administration officials.
The U.S. military is having problems providing adequate bandwith for its network-enabled forces.
A detailed feature article on the U.S. military's modernization effort to prepare for 'network-centric warfare'.
The U.S. military is racing to ready wireless broadband communications for combat soldiers, a move that could dramatically alter the way wars are fought and won, just as the Internet has altered the way the wired world shares and uses data.
Some human rights and international legal experts have expressed concern that U.S. use of high-power microwave technology (HPM) in an attack on Iraq might cause unnecessary human suffering or destroy civilian infrastructure, which is prohibited by an international arms control agreement.
The Los Angeles Times reports on military developments in creating an "integrated battle space" which would give U.S. military leaders unprecedented access to information from anyplace around the globe, tracking ships, planes, vehicles and individual soldiers from a command and control center that could be thousands of miles away.
The U.S. military has been working on tools that could wreak electronic havoc on countries accused of harboring terrorists as well as on ways of defending global networks against cyberattack.
Guns that hit targets around corners, computerized helmets, a grenade-launching pickup truck that foils pursuers with oil slicks and smoke screens. The U.S. Army is investing in a host of new technologies that might someday revolutionize American war fighting.
Computer technicians working for the Defense Information Systems Agency are being trained to guard against computer attacks by other countries and to launch computer virus invasions that will bring chaos to a foe's communications networks, financial systems and power grids.
The U.S. Commerce Department has put together a team of eclectic, low-profile researchers -- among them, a college physics professor, a nuclear engineer and a veteran of the federal government's Y2K preparations -- in a project mischeviously called "Project Matrix". The team is trying to map the government's electronic underbelly to identify the systems and services whose failure or disruption by a hacker or foreign enemy could cripple the U.S. military or economy or threaten public health, and to determine how those systems are linked with, or "cascade" upon, others.