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December 15, 2020 / Last updated : December 15, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

CNN: Vaccination cards will be issued to everyone getting Covid-19 vaccine, health officials say

CNN: Vaccination cards will be issued to everyone getting Covid-19 vaccine, health officials say. “The Department of Defense released the first images of a Covid-19 vaccination record card and vaccination kits Wednesday. Vaccination cards will be used as the ‘simplest’ way to keep track of Covid-19 shots, said Dr. Kelly Moore, associate director of the […]

August 6, 2020 / Last updated : August 6, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

FedScoop: DOD needs some help digitizing a massive collection of respiratory disease samples

FedScoop: DOD needs some help digitizing a massive collection of respiratory disease samples. “The Department of Defense has the world’s largest collection of pathology specimens, including ‘invaluable’ data from the 1918 influenza pandemic. Now it wants help to digitize it. Digitizing the collection of more than a hundred years of data —in the form of […]

May 19, 2020 / Last updated : May 19, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Task & Purpose: Leaked Pentagon memo warns of ‘real possibility’ of COVID-19 resurgence, vaccine not coming until summer 2021

Task & Purpose: Leaked Pentagon memo warns of ‘real possibility’ of COVID-19 resurgence, vaccine not coming until summer 2021. “The Defense Department should prepare to operate in a “globally-persistent” novel coronavirus (COVID-19) environment without an effective vaccine until “at least the summer of 2021,” according to a draft Pentagon memo obtained by Task & Purpose. […]

February 21, 2020 / Last updated : February 21, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

CNET: Social Security numbers stolen in defense agency data breach

CNET: Social Security numbers stolen in defense agency data breach. “An agency under the US Department of Defense was hit by a data breach that affected personal information. Hackers stole Social Security numbers, names and other personal data, a department spokesman said Thursday.”

December 20, 2019 / Last updated : December 20, 2019 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Military .com: Pentagon Announces Plans to Monitor Foreign Trainees’ Social Media Posts

Military .com: Pentagon Announces Plans to Monitor Foreign Trainees’ Social Media Posts. “The Pentagon has completed re-screening all Saudi students in U.S. military training programs following a deadly Dec. 6 shooting rampage at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Defense Department officials announced Thursday. No indications of additional threats have surfaced, they said. Moving forward, DoD plans […]

November 22, 2019 / Last updated : November 22, 2019 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Ars Technica: DOD joins fight against 5G spectrum proposal, citing risks to GPS

Ars Technica: DOD joins fight against 5G spectrum proposal, citing risks to GPS. “The Department of Defense has weighed in against a proposal before the Federal Communications Commission to open the 1 to 2 Gigahertz frequency range—the L band—for use in 5G cellular networks. The reason: segments of that range of radio spectrum are already […]

December 19, 2018 / Last updated : December 19, 2018 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

ZDNet: DOD doesn’t keep track of duplicate or obsolete software

ZDNet: DOD doesn’t keep track of duplicate or obsolete software. “The US Marine Corps, the Navy, and the Air Force are not keeping track of their software inventories, according to a report released today by the US Department of Defense Inspector General (DOD IG).”

October 15, 2018 / Last updated : October 15, 2018 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

ZDNet: Pentagon discloses card breach

ZDNet: Pentagon discloses card breach. “Pentagon official said on Friday that the Department of Defense had suffered a security breach thanks to a third-party contractor. An investigation is still underway, so the exact details haven’t been made public, but according to an Associated Press report, a DOD official said that roughly 30,000 DOD military and […]

October 10, 2018 / Last updated : October 10, 2018 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Report: US weapons systems are highly vulnerable to cyber attacks (Engadget)

Engadget: Report: US weapons systems are highly vulnerable to cyber attacks. “The Department of Defense will have to ramp up its cybersecurity efforts now that it’s planning to spend $1.66 trillion to develop major weapons systems. According to a new report (PDF) by the Government Accountability Office, nearly all of Pentagon’s weapons systems are vulnerable […]

October 9, 2018 / Last updated : October 9, 2018 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

Bloomberg: Google Drops Out of Pentagon’s $10 Billion Cloud Competition

Bloomberg: Google Drops Out of Pentagon’s $10 Billion Cloud Competition. “Alphabet Inc.’s Google has decided not to compete for the Pentagon’s cloud-computing contract valued at as much as $10 billion, saying the project may conflict with its corporate values.”

October 3, 2018 / Last updated : October 3, 2018 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

UPI: NIH, Department of Defense to develop limb loss database

UPI: NIH, Department of Defense to develop limb loss database. “The U.S. government is working to develop a database that will include the number of people in the United States living with limb losses for insight on their challenges and needs. The National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense expect to have the […]

August 8, 2018 / Last updated : August 8, 2018 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

MIT Technology Review: The Defense Department has produced the first tools for catching deepfakes

MIT Technology Review: The Defense Department has produced the first tools for catching deepfakes. “The tools for catching deepfakes were developed through a program—run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—called Media Forensics. The program was created to automate existing forensics tools, but has recently turned its attention to AI-made forgery.”

May 23, 2018 / Last updated : May 23, 2018 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

MIT Technology Review: The US military is funding an effort to catch deepfakes and other AI trickery

MIT Technology Review: The US military is funding an effort to catch deepfakes and other AI trickery. “The Department of Defense is funding a project that will try to determine whether the increasingly real-looking fake video and audio generated by artificial intelligence might soon be impossible to distinguish from the real thing—even for another AI […]

May 8, 2018 / Last updated : May 8, 2018 ResearchBuzz New Resources

ProPublica: Get an Inside Look at the Department of Defense’s Struggle to Fix Pollution at More Than 39,000 Sites

ProPublica: Get an Inside Look at the Department of Defense’s Struggle to Fix Pollution at More Than 39,000 Sites. “For nearly 45 years, the Pentagon kept its program — the Defense Environmental Restoration Program — out of the spotlight, and most of these sites have never been scrutinized by the public. However, the agency has […]

April 12, 2018 / Last updated : April 12, 2018 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

CNBC Via Yahoo: Google is reportedly drafting ‘ethical principles’ for government work to calm worried employees

CNBC via Yahoo: Google is reportedly drafting ‘ethical principles’ for government work to calm worried employees. “Google cloud leader Diane Greene told employees that the company is drafting a set of ethical principals to guide the use of its technology in the wake of internal objections to its partnership with The Pentagon , according to […]

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