The U.S. Air Force Reserve announced a new direct commissioning effort designed to bring in cyber professionals from industry and enlisted ranks. The Cyber Direct Commission Program will add personnel ...

In late 2022, the People’s Republic of China issued the world’s first deep fake regulation. The communist country sought to limit artificial intelligence creations, or deep synthesis, that went ...

Building on Version 1 of the U.S. military’s so-called Bumblebee counter- drone system, the Joint Inter-Agency Task Force (JIATF) 401 began testing initial prototypes of the second iteration on April ...

The global security landscape has fundamentally transformed. The United States no longer enjoys unchallenged military and economic overmatch, while peer competitors—particularly China and ...

See which topics SIGNAL readers were most interested in this past year, from generative AI to cyber defense.

Drug traffickers expand the use of submersible vessels to transport illicit substances as states struggle to detect them. This whack-a-mole game sees cartels improve the seaworthiness and technologies ...

The next war to embroil the U.S. Army may be launched with cyber attacks rather than with bombs and bullets. To prepare for that possibility, Lt. Gen. Jeth Rey, the U.S. Army’s deputy chief of staff, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) development is at the center of geopolitical competition as both the United States and China seek AI supremacy. The United States has traditionally been the leader in AI ...

To aid its mission of gathering and sharing intelligence to protect the United States from threats, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is outlining how it will expand the use of artificial ...

Soldiers may soon be wearing equipment that physically strengthens and protects them, as well as potentially improves their cognitive abilities on the battlefield. Artillery soldiers carry heavy ...

As part of the Texas Space Commission’s (TSC’s) $9.27 million award to the University of Texas at Austin, the TSC and the U.S. Space Force (USSF) will expand the USSF Space Domain Awareness Tools, ...

The four-year-old U.S. Space Force is trying out a new organizational concept that leaders purport will provide greater readiness in the face of growing competition in the space domain. As part of the ...