Tag : DARPA
Some fear COVID-19 will be ruse to further invade privacy
By Tom Squitieri, Talk Media News WASHINGTON— With COVID-19 as justification, the Chinese government is increasing its efforts to meld facial recognition and contact tracing into a potential powerful new tool to reign in the personal privacy of its citizens. Some at the Pentagon and elsewhere in the U.S. government have taken notice and areRead morePentagon seeks it, DARPA creates it
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary James Mattis says the U.S. needs to keep technologically ahead of adversaries and that means, among other things, quicker advances in smartly developed and financed tools and weapons. He better dial 703-526-6630. Or drive 4.2 miles south of his Pentagon office. That is where DARPA has its headquarters and that isRead moreNew friend — or foe — on the way for satellites
By tom On Thursday, January 25 th, 2018 · no Comments · In And more news stories ,News stories ,WritingWASHINGTON — From Defense Secretary James Mattis to think-tankers and congressional military soothsayers, the need to ramp up U.S. space security is being proclaimed more and more and louder and louder. A key first step may already be underway in one of the most successful parts of the military — DARPA, its research and developmentRead more