DefenceTalkBritain’s Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has accused Russia of spying on its critical infrastructure as part of possible plans to create “total chaos” in the country that could “cause thousands and thousands of deaths”. In unusually alarmist words from a senior minister Williamson told the Daily Telegraph that, in its research on UK power supply […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-infrastructure-spying-could-cause-total-chaos-uk-71178/

DefenceTalkThe US Central Intelligence Agency said Wednesday it had formed a special unit dedicated to assessing North Korea’s nuclear weapons threat. The CIA created its first single country-focused mission center, pulling together resources from a range of units to collect and analyze information on Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missile technology that could extend […]https://www.defencetalk.com/cia-forms-special-unit-focused-on-north-korea-threat-69958/

DefenceTalkHarris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) will showcase its broad range of advanced products and integrated systems that help customers connect the battlefield during the 2017 International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX), Feb. 19-23, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Harris will exhibit and demonstrate its proven solutions that meet urgent security challenges associated with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) […]https://www.defencetalk.com/harris-to-showcase-connected-battlefield-technologies-at-idex-2017-69147/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Navy accepted its 50th P-8A Poseidon aircraft at the Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville, Florida today. The Navy’s Poseidon is replacing the legacy P-3 Orion and will improve an operator’s ability to efficiently conduct anti-submarine warfare; anti-surface warfare; and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions. The P-8A program of record calls for a total […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navy-partnership-hits-milestone-50th-p-8a-delivered-68798/

DefenceTalkThe line of systems provides a unique, overall situational awareness of “on-the-ground” data and conditions, and enables a large number of users to receive real time, high-resolution imagery and even go “back-in-time” for border protection, facilities and tactical infrastructure security, counter-terrorism and other purposes. Elbit Systems presents GroundEye, an innovative line of systems for ground-based […]https://www.defencetalk.com/elbit-launches-wide-area-and-persistent-intelligence-gathering-system-68596/

DefenceTalkUS military leaders painted an overly optimistic picture of American efforts to fight the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, a damning government report released Thursday found. The interim report stems from a congressional task force investigating whistleblower allegations that intel bosses cherry-picked information that soft-pedaled the risk of IS while overstating US efforts […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-military-manipulated-intel-in-is-fight-68001/

DefenceTalkA new $10 million US intelligence project seeks to use image-search applications to single out mobile missile launchers revealed by satellite data, and alert human analysts. At the core of the project is the idea of using machines to identify launcher-shaped objects buried within the staggering amount of digital imagery collected by US spy satellites, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-spies-teach-computers-to-hunt-for-enemy-missile-launchers-67385/

DefenceTalkPakistan on Friday protested to India after arresting a man suspected of being an Indian spy, sparking a new diplomatic tiff between the nuclear-armed neighbors. The man was arrested during a raid in the southwestern province of Balochistan, Pakistani media reports said quoting local security officials, calling him an agent with India’s Research and Analysis […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pakistan-protests-to-india-after-spy-arrest-67188/

DefenceTalk“Our adversaries have begun to catch us in technology and in some cases, we believe, may overmatch some of our systems,” said a senior intelligence advisor. That’s why “we’re particularly interested in the pursuit of the third offset,” he said. Gary Phillips, senior intelligence advisor for the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command’s G-2, Intelligence […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-seeking-3rd-offset-strategy-to-dominate-enemy-66838/

DefenceTalkThe deadly Paris attacks have reignited debate on encrypted communications by terror cells and whether law enforcement and intelligence services are “going dark” in the face of new technologies. The exact means of communication in Friday’s strikes were not immediately clear, but media reports have said the Islamic State organization has increasingly turned to encrypted […]https://www.defencetalk.com/attacks-revive-debate-on-encryption-surveillance-65882/