System Architecture

For senior leaders, what are the impacts of not disconnecting from personal technologies and suffering from information overload and insufficient sleep?

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. — Sun Tzu, The Art of War […]

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They are not mortal sins; penance can be made.

By Raymond McConoly-June 21, 2021

To complement this story, Wired asked four renowned photographers to create images depicting the intersection of technology and war. This page: A tattered flag flies from a cell phone antenna. Photo: Todd Hido View Slideshow The future of war began with an act of faith. In 1991, Navy captain Arthur Cebrowski met John Garstka, a captain […]

Pentagon leaders should take notes.

Learn how changing from “network-centric” to “data-centric” command-and-control networks will enable JADC2.

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There is extensive work in the community to standardize elements involved in decentralized identities, and soon it will be much easier to use them.

mountebank is the first open source, cross-platform, multi-protocol service virtualization tool

Discover the origins and technology behind composable data systems. Learn about the key layers of data systems, and how to build by reusing open source software components and open standards.

For companies with dual-use software products—those with both civilian and military applications—an ATO can be a significant barrier to entry to the government market. The variable cost and extended timeline often prove fatal to startups targeting DOD customers, which has implications far beyond those companies.

Before adopting platform engineering, companies should consider if it's the right fit for where they are in their software development journey.

One of the significant features added to the mainline kernel during the 6.6 merge window was multi-grain timestamps, which allow the kernel to selectively store file modification times with higher resolution without hurting performance. Unfortunately, this feature also caused some surprising regressions, and was quickly ushered back out of the kernel as a result. It is instructive to look at how this feature went wrong, and how the developers involved plan to move forward from here.

It’s been four years between the release of the Raspberry Pi 4 and the announcement of the Raspberry Pi 5 but the Pi 5 has been in development far longer. Raspberry Pi has published an articl…

Implementing nested sets to performantly lookup hierarchical tags

We are on the threshold of the greatest military change since the Age of Napoleon.

Any future framework for operational adaptation must incorporate the effects of technological change, while avoiding the seductions of strategic paralysis theory.

WARFARE EVOLUTION BLOG: DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) officials announced the concept of the Kill Web at the C4ISRNET Conference in May 2018. Throughout the history of war, many elements of the Kill Web were being developed independently, but the dots were not connected until Admiral William Owens wrote a paper about a “system of systems”. He proposed integrating command-and-control, the intelligence from the sensors, and the weapons together in the mid 1990s. He also coined the acronym ISR (for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance).

US combat power is massed just out of range of enemy fires, but there it is stalled, with ships and aircraft unable to penetrate the complex web of enemy sensors, […]

Recently, we interviewed a USAF retired Colonel who was both a combat  veteran and test pilot, Robert “Juice” Newton, with regard to the strategic shift from the land wars to military competition and engagement with peer competitors. Juice has had extensive engagement in the Middle Eastern land wars, and is now focused on advanced technology […]

Two DARPA-developed technologies—a novel decision aid for mission commanders and a rapid software integration tool—played a critical role in the recent Air Force demonstration of the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS).