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News about U.S. Department of Defense

• US Defense Secretary to renew call for cooperation with tech industry

  Ash Carter will speak to big-name execs at the secretive Sun Valley conference

• DOD wants to rebuild trust with the technology industry

  The military needs private partners to combat the nation's cybersecurity problems, Carter says

• FCC moves toward 'historic' spectrum sharing plan

  Commissioners vote to open up 3.5GHz spectrum band to commercial use in the coming years

• The Pentagon's groundbreaking IPv6 project hasn't broken much ground

  The U.S. Department of Defense pledged to deploy IPv6 but hasn't made much progress, its Inspector General says

• Atlas Unplugged: DARPA challenge robot gets major makeover

  The 6-foot, 2-in. tall humanoid robot that many teams in the finals of the DARPA Robotics Challenge will be using in June has gotten a ...

• White House sets 20% data center efficiency goal, but finds few takers

  Without a carbon tax or anything that penalizes fossil fuel consumption, the federal government has little ability to influence how much energy a data center ...

Features about U.S. Department of Defense

• Chinese hackers master art of lying low

  State-sponsored cybercriminals use simple weapons to infiltrate U.S. networks, and then quietly steal data while remaining undetected.

• 13 IT security myths debunked

  These myths simply aren't true