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Video: How drones misidentify targets; a retired general speaks

He warns that their operators lack important context, and gives a chilling example from the field.

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Pentagon taking snail mail into the digital era

DOD turns paper and ink into binary code for efficiency.

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In report, Twitter lists zero cases where it has removed content in response to government requests

But requests from copyright-holders resulted in the deletion of more than 5,000 tweets.

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Arlington Cemetery developing smartphone app

Visitors to Arlington Cemetery will soon have a virtual tour app to show them around.

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Defense idles firefighting C-130s following crash

The aircraft are equipped to fight wildfires in support of the Forest Service.

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This declaration of Internet freedom is vague

At fewer than 100 words, the declaration's length seems itself to be an attack on the anti-Internet contingent.

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Former DHS contractor nabbed in immigrant form forgery plot

Twice in roughly a year, USCIS allegedly falls prey to an inside job.

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Pentagon dishes out funding for rapid manufacturing technologies

Boeing nabs a $3.7 million DARPA contract.

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DISA awards major Army network maintenance contract to tainted company

Winner paid $2.3 million to settle False Claims Act charges last year.

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RIM is dying because it got the future of phones completely wrong

The company made a decision to stick with email-focused devices.

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Northrop Grumman snags a $782 million sole-source contract for Afghanistan communications

The Battlefield Airborne Communications Node is a key relay system.

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Air Force mulls smartphone gaming app for new recruits

Request for information met with 'significant amount of interest.'

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FedBizOpps contractor under FBI investigation

Symplicity allegedly snooped on competitors.

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Feds divulge sensitive mapping data to head off Colorado wildfires

Officials grant state authorities access to information about critical infrastructure.

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Visiting Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim museum in Spain

A trip to deliver a lecture leads to cultural opportunities.

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Health IT's small, but significant role in health reform

Industry experts say act can be dependent on health IT.

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Rockefeller says he doesn't trust industry to regulate itself on privacy

Senator says he will continue to pursue the issue in the next Congress.

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United Technologies aided China's military helicopter, U.S. authorities say

Charges involve export of U.S.-origin military software for Chinese Z-10 helicopter.

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The arguments for (and against) an Internet kill switch

Panel participants weigh the question of whether the government should be able to shut off Internet access inside the government.