8 posts and columns on Defense Department

What Tech Companies Are Spending in Washington

in Enterprise on December 23, 2010 at 7:46 am PT

The latest round of disclosures on what companies spend on lobbying efforts in Washington is out. Here are some highlights from tech companies.

CES: Dude, Where's My Driverless Car?

in News on January 8, 2008 at 7:36 pm PT

So General Motors Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner says the company expects to have driverless cars on the road by 2018. Now, I know the autonomous Chevrolet Tahoe SUV that GM developed with Carnegie Mellon University (pictured above) did win the Urban Challenge competition held last fall by the U.S. Defense Department’s research agency. And [...]

CES: Dude, Where’s My Driverless Car?

in News on January 8, 2008 at 7:36 pm PT

So General Motors Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner says the company expects to have driverless cars on the road by 2018. Now, I know the autonomous Chevrolet Tahoe SUV that GM developed with Carnegie Mellon University (pictured above) did win the Urban Challenge competition held last fall by the U.S. Defense Department’s research agency. And [...]

Apple: Meet the Beatles?

in News on September 4, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

This Ought to Make for an Uncomfortable Moment at the APEC Summit

in Social on September 4, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

“A-Space,” the Central Intelligence Agency’s social network for agents and analysts, may have seemed a grand idea when it was first announced. A tool that would improve the sharing of information across the traditionally stove-piped intelligence community. A SpySpace. Doesn’t seem so ingenious now, though. Not when a “View All Friends” command might reveal People’s [...]

The Defense Department Budget Also Calls for Nearly $11 billion in Geek Squad Support

in News on May 15, 2007 at 12:01 pm PT

I Dunno, Maybe the Second Life Pentagon Wasn't Such a Good Idea After All

in News on May 14, 2007 at 3:36 pm PT

What was it former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld once said? You go to war with the bandwidth you have, not the bandwidth you want? A Department of Defense policy that went into effect today bans military access worldwide to MySpace, YouTube, Photobucket and eight other popular Web sites because of the strain they place on its network.

I Dunno, Maybe the Second Life Pentagon Wasn’t Such a Good Idea After All

in News on May 14, 2007 at 3:36 pm PT

What was it former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld once said? You go to war with the bandwidth you have, not the bandwidth you want? A Department of Defense policy that went into effect today bans military access worldwide to MySpace, YouTube, Photobucket and eight other popular Web sites because of the strain they place on its network.