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Theresa Hitchens • Breaking Defense

DIU To Fund 'Unjammable' Magnetic Navigation Tech

DIU expects to fund prototypes of mTo circumvent ever-more pervasive jamming of GPS satellite signals, the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit (DUI)...

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Christopher Townsend • Christopher Townsend

Foreign Espionage of U.S. Frontier AI Labs

Below-Threshold Capability Transfer and the Compression of Strategic Advantage...

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Pat Fallon • The National Interest

New Age Cyber Threats Are Here—the US Must Be Prepared

As artificial intelligence rapidly expands the cyber threat frontier, public-private cooperation is needed to defend the digital domain....

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The Pentagon’s AI Agents Could Complete the Mission and Still Leak Secrets

Burak Oktenli • RealClearDefense • October 28, 2026

New research shows why readable agent messages cannot establish secure collaboration. As the Army develops AI cyber defenders and NATO connects military and civilian networks, procurement must test what crosses each boundary, not only what each tool achieves.

Imagine a reinforcement exercise in which four AI assistants coordinate equipment checks, maintenance, movement orders and a port release. The shipment reaches its destination. Every agent reports success. Their conversations look routine. Yet a test record restricted to the maintenance agent has quietly reached the planning agent, which had no permission to see it.

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Burak Oktenli • RealClearDefense

The Pentagon’s AI Agents Could Complete the Mission and Still Leak Secrets

New research shows why readable agent messages cannot establish secure collaboration. As the Army develops AI cyber defenders and NATO connects...

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Darron Makrokanis • Federal News Network

How the Iran War Is Redrawing the Cyber Threat Map

Every defense contractor should reassess whether its cybersecurity reflects today’s threat environment or the one that existed five years ago....

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Jason Miller • Federal News Network

Defense Cyber Crime Center Seeing a Record Number of Insider Threats

The FBI warned last week about North Korean schemes to fund its regime through remote IT work for U.S. companies....

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Michael Shoebridge • Strategic Analysis Australia

Is REDSPICE now Oldspice?

Australia’s cyber plans have been mugged by AI REDSPICE, the Australian Government’s $10 billion cyber plan for the secretive Australian Signals...

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Is REDSPICE now Oldspice?

Michael Shoebridge • RealClearDefense • October 20, 2026

Australia’s cyber plans have been mugged by AI

REDSPICE, the Australian Government’s $10 billion cyber plan for the secretive Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) that started under Scott Morrison in 2022, was the largest investment in the cyber intelligence outfit’s history. It’s a 10 year long blueprint to grow Australia’s offensive cyber capabilities to keep the agency at the forefront of core technologies. 

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Michael Groen • RealClearDefense

Iranian Cyber Operations

Americans have long found comfort in the two oceans that separate us from Middle East wars, but the vulnerabilities Iranian cyber operations pose...

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Michael Groen • RealClearDefense

Iranian Cyber Operations

Americans have long found comfort in the two oceans that separate us from Middle East wars, but the vulnerabilities Iranian cyber operations pose...

1w agoRead it on RealClearDefense