Thursday, July 29, 2010

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- July 29, 2010


Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest In ‘Future’ Of Web Monitoring

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.

The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine “goes beyond search” by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.”

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MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS

Senior DoD Brass, CEOs To Discuss Pentagon Cost-Cutting Effort -- Defense News

LCS Alternative Weekly
-- New Wars

Calls for EU to Halt Corrupt Defense Deals -- Bloomberg Businessweek

BAE Systems, Hindustan Aeronautics Sign Pact For Hawk Trainer Jets -- Wall Street Journal

French Cuts Will Affect Entire Defense Industry, Dassault Exec Says -- Defense News

The Mighty Su-35 Has No Friends
-- Strategy Page

BAE’s GCV Weighs 53 Tons, Hybrid -- DoD Buzz

US Army Orders Additional Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles -- Defense Talk

4 killed in plane crash at Alaska military base -- AP

US and Israel Continue Joint Development of Missile Defence Technology -- Defpro

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