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DARPA Explores Tech To Boost 5G Signals "The technical goal of MixComm's work with DARPA under this effort is to try and simultaneously push the bandwidth, efficiency, and linearity of millimeter wave (mmWave) power amplifiers," said DARPA's Tim Hancock. "This has direct applicability to 5G."

How Did Multiple Threat Groups Know About Exchange Patches Before Release? Following CISA's weekend updates on continuing Exchange server hacks, Microsoft is investigating the significant uptick in exploits just days before patches were released.

INDOPACOM Drafts Regional Strategy For All-Domain Ops The emerging Indo-Pacific Warfighting Concept has been drafted, but still has "a ways to go as far as working through the Department of Defense," says INDOPACOM's head of requirements, George Ka'iliwai.

The New Overmatch: All Domain Operations [Sponsored] The goal is deployment of an open, integrated communications network that pulls together and shares disparate sensor data collected across the DoD.

The US Needs A Strategy To Secure Microelectronics – Not Just Funding Instead of throwing subsidies around indiscriminately, the authors argue, the US government needs to invest only in crucial new technologies while crafting policy incentives to shift industry behavior.

Retaliation Options: US Cyber Responses To SolarWinds, Exchange Hacks Three experts gave us exclusive in-depth insights into the administration's potential menu of retaliatory options, along with U.S. cyber strategic, policy, and operations considerations.

Exchange Hack: FBI, CISA Warn Of Follow-On Ransomware, 'Destructive' Attacks Gurucul CEO Saryu Nayyar told Breaking Defense, "A threat like this really is one of those rare 'Stop what you are doing and fix this now!' events."

DARPA Awards Contracts For Encrypted Data Processing How can Pentagon clouds process data quickly while it's still encrypted, instead of having to decrypt it and thereby render it vulnerable?

SMC Building 'Catalog' For Common Satellite C2 Ops Instead of one mega-system to rule them all, the Enterprise Ground System (EGS) is building common components, from messaging standards to shared servers.

Get US 'AI Ready' By 2025: JAIC's Lt. Gen. Groen, NSCAI's McFarland Approximately half of NSCAI's final recommendations focus on defense. "We're already working on two-thirds of them," Groen said, adding that partnerships with the U.S. domestic private sector and academia are important in pursuing JAIC's defense-focused AI goals.

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