As the amount of data that people and machines create, collect, process, and store continues to increase in size and complexity, so does the task of keeping cyber systems safe and secure…
Supported by a $1.5 million grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission, West Virginia University will house a first-of-its-kind center that will leverage student and faculty expertise to improve the cybersecurity and cyber-resilience of businesses…
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Frontier AI labs have teams dedicated to the public good, but unless those teams are independent, they will be largely ineffective. Nine years ago, OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit for the…
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Open-weight AI models aren’t the panacea for AI democratization, innovation, and accountability that their evangelists claim them to be. In light of the explosive growth of generative AI, which the general public has…
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can potentially provide the homeland unprecedented opportunity to enhance its cybersecurity posture. The Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is exploring the possibilities of using new…
Lishan Yang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at George Mason University, received funding for the project: “Collaborative Research: Elements: MELIOREM: An Integrated Evaluation Cyberinfrastructure towards Safe and Dependable Autonomous Driving Systems.” Yang…
An effective government backstop would require preexisting consensus on security standards, data sharing, and cooperation. The scale of the July 19 CrowdStrike outage was a stark reminder of the global connectivity and…
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Content moderation is becoming a “compliance function,” with trust and safety operations run like factories and audited like investment banks. There’s a revolution happening inside platforms like YouTube and Instagram, and it…
Innovative sanctions evasion practices should prompt a reassessment of the national security risks posed by digital financial technologies. The geopolitical tumult of the past several years has brought renewed attention to the…
Benson Macon, program manager in the Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Office of Mission & Capability Support (MCS), introduces us to the Cyber Analytics and Platform Capabilities (CAPC) Research Initiative. When it comes…
