What appears to be a simple question typically results in complex conversations full of trade-offs. Some leaders prefer to fund robust existing capabilities to enable day-to-day critical functions.

The United Kingdom is advancing sensor, spectrum capabilities and autonomous systems for so-called Cognitive Intelligent Sensing (CoInS) technologies, for the U.K. Ministry of Defence and the U.K.

What do you mean by “robo-physics”? We started realizing what we were doing was enough that it wasn’t quite robotics as traditionally defined. We called it robo-physics because it was taking the ...

I take no joy in writing this article, but it is a desperate plea for improvement. From 1995-2001, I worked for the Department of the Army as a contract specialist procuring advanced communications ...

See which topics SIGNAL readers were most interested in this past year, from generative AI to cyber defense.

With the current war in Ukraine, it’s clear that Russia’s modernization program has involved electronic warfare and signals intelligence and played a huge part in Russia’s combat advances and overall ...

Soldiers may soon be wearing equipment that physically strengthens and protects them, as well as potentially improves their cognitive abilities on the battlefield. Artillery soldiers carry heavy ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) development is at the center of geopolitical competition as both the United States and China seek AI supremacy. The United States has traditionally been the leader in AI ...

Today, with almost infinite sources and publicly available sensors, open-source intelligence (OSINT) collection has achieved high sophistication and allows, for example, the ability to follow ...

In 2022, amidst the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict, one of the largest cyber attacks fell upon Kyivstar, the largest telecommunications provider in Ukraine, leaving millions without mobile and ...

For years, the cyber domain was perceived as a virtual one. However, every cyber attack leaves a tangible footprint—a compromised server, a disrupted infrastructure or a breached supply chain. When ...

The rise of the drug cartel movement since the 1970s has ignited fear among many. From complex and undetected tunnel systems to leveraging ubiquitous technical surveillance (UTS), many of the recently ...