DARPA Seeks To Learn From Social For Warfare -- Information WeekAgency aims to explore how the use of social media--particularly on mobile devices--can be used to help wage military campaigns.
The Department of Defense (DOD) aims to develop new ways to use social media sites like YouTube and Facebook to help it better leverage the technology for military engagements.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking proposals for a "new science of social networks" through a program called Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC), according to a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) posted on the FedBizOpps.gov site.
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