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Stealth aircraft are designed primarily to make radar detection more difficult, creating an ongoing challenge for the sensors responsible for finding and tracking them....

Airport security depends on finding dangerous materials without bringing passenger movement to a halt. Liquids remain one of the most visible compromises: travelers are...

Some computing problems become difficult not because any individual calculation is particularly complicated, but because there are simply too many possible combinations to test....

Precision artillery has become increasingly dependent on satellite navigation, creating an obvious vulnerability on battlefields saturated with electronic warfare. If an adversary jams or...

Finding a submarine beneath the ocean is one of the more difficult surveillance tasks in modern warfare. Sonar and sonobuoys can listen for underwater...

Putting more capable satellites into orbit creates opportunities for communications and other space services, but it also increases the value of the hardware that...

As armed forces deploy growing numbers of unmanned aircraft, managing them efficiently is becoming as important as the drones themselves. Controlling each aircraft individually...

Building on the success of previous cycles and the progress of participating technologies within the defense sector, iHLS and the Ministry of Defense invite...

Military systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated, but the person operating them still needs a practical way to control what is happening. Complex interfaces can...

As AI models gain the ability to act independently, safety testing is increasingly about more than preventing harmful answers. Developers also need to determine...

Modern cybersecurity systems face a scale problem. Networks generate enormous amounts of traffic, and malicious activity may be hidden among millions of ordinary interactions....

AI agents are increasingly capable of navigating websites, using software tools and carrying out complex tasks without waiting for human approval at every step....

Modern soldiers can receive information from drones, sensors and other units, but getting that data to the person who needs it becomes difficult when...

Following the achievements of previous cycles, iHLS and the Ministry of Defense are opening applications for the seventh cycle of INNOFENSE. The program offers...

As organizations deploy more robots, a new problem emerges: each machine can come with its own controls, software and mission-planning tools. An operator working...

Hunting submarines from the air presents an awkward problem. An aircraft may detect or receive the suspected position of an underwater target, but a...

Modern military logistics depends on enormous networks of warehouses, suppliers and inventories, but having large amounts of data does not necessarily make those networks...

Collaborative documents have become a standard way for teams to work together, but they present a security problem that encrypted messaging largely solved years...

Modern warships can carry sophisticated air defenses, but inexpensive drones have created a difficult problem at the opposite end of the engagement range. FPV...

Small drones have become a difficult target for infantry. They can approach quickly, change direction and present a much smaller target than a conventional...

Monitoring large stretches of ocean creates a difficult resource problem for military and security forces. Ports, shipping lanes and strategic waterways may require continuous...

Getting personnel into remote or hostile territory normally requires aircraft, helicopters or prepared launch infrastructure. Those options can be noisy, detectable and dependent on...