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Pentagon Plans to Create Video Games to Crowd Test Weapon Systems

A solicitation from the Department of Defense of the United States suggests that the institution plans to contract companies to create a number of video games that can be used to refine the way a variety of weapons systems work and eliminate errors and bugs from them.The document coming from the Pentagon says that th...

20 January 2012
10:46 GMT

Apple Systems Hacker Hired by Department of Defense

Charlie Miller, a hacker best known for pirating Apple’s iOS and Mac operating systems, is now on the DoD’s for providing invaluable advice on cyber security.NATO is bringing in la creme de la creme in the hacking community to gain protection for its information systems.Miller was invited to the conferenc...

8 December 2011
04:26 GMT

Red Hat and SAIC in Cloud Computing Alliance

Red Hat has just announced a collaboration with Science Applications International Corporation in order to demonstrate solutions that maximize the use of open source cloud computing. A number of Red Hat solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and ...

8 November 2011
08:05 GMT

U.S. Military Accelerating Clean Energy Innovation

A new report from The Pew Charitable Trusts documents how the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is accelerating clean energy innovations in order to reduce risks to America's military, enhance energy security and save money.The report finds that DoD clean energy investments increased 300 percent between 2006 and ...

5 October 2011
04:40 GMT

Pentagon Suffers Major Security Breach

The Pentagon has revealed that back in March it suffered a major security breach in which tens of thousands of sensitive files were stolen.The admission came from Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn in a speech about the Department of Defense's cyber strategy at the National Defense University in Washington...

15 July 2011
04:34 GMT

Real Life Space Shuttle Nears Retirement, Complex Simulation Ready for Lift Off

Iceberg Interactive, as the publisher, and Simsquared Ltd., as the developer, have announced that they are all set to launch Space Shuttle Mission Simulator: The Collector’s Edition on the PC on Friday, June 4.The title is described as a hardcore simulation that aims to offer any gamer who is also interested in...

3 June 2010
02:03 GMT

U.S. Department of Defense Will Consider Open-Source Solutions

While open-source software and applications have been providing a generous and efficient way to replace proprietary software in our day-to-day life, many Governments around the Globe have hesitated in adopting such solutions for their official platforms. Last week, the U.S. Department of Defense has released to the p...

2 November 2009
10:13 GMT

Romanian Pentagon Hacker Arrested

A 23-year-old man suspected of having hacked into Department of Defense systems during 2006 has been arrested in Iaşi, Romania, by the local police and the Direction for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (D.I.I.C.O.T.). If found guilty, the hacker risks a maximum sentence of 12 years behind bars. The organ...

20 March 2009
05:34 GMT

U.S Department of Defense Uses Open Source Software

The U.S. Department of Defense will be holding the third Department of Defense Open IT Conference from 11th to 12th December in Washington, D.C. This demonstrates how widespread the adoption of open source software is and points out how to get the best results using this type of software.The main goal of the conferen...

15 November 2007
04:24 GMT

First Polymorphic Computer in the World

Raytheon Company has developed the first computer in the world that can adjust itself to the applications it processes. By adjustment I'm referring to its architecture. The name of this new technology is not the Terminator T1000, we haven't come that far, it's called MONARCH (Morphable Networked Micro-...

22 March 2007
09:58 GMT


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