Neural Net Learns to Cheat

Neural Net Learns to Cheat

Depending on how paranoid you are, this research from Stanford and Google will be either terrifying or fascinating. A machine learning agent intended to transform aerial images into street maps and back was found to be cheating by hiding information it would need...
Quantum Arms Race?

Quantum Arms Race?

In the 1970s, at the height of the Cold War, American military planners began to worry about the threat to US warplanes posed by new, radar-guided missile defenses in the USSR and other nations. In response, engineers at places like US defense giant Lockheed Martin’s...
Defense Contractors Expand in Beavercreek

Defense Contractors Expand in Beavercreek

With its proximity to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the city of Beavercreek is in a prime location for defense contractors. Of the top 25 defense firms in the Dayton region — ranked by the Dayton Business Journal based on prime contract awards for 2017 — more than...
2019 Forecast:  Hard Choices on EW

2019 Forecast: Hard Choices on EW

After a quarter-century of post-Cold War neglect, the Department of Defense has once again become serious about electronic warfare: the art of detecting, disrupting, and deceiving enemy radio and radar. But battles between electrons are invisible, literally and often...