US Cyber Command, DARPA ink cyberwar R&D pact

An agreement between US Cyber Command and DARPA aims to move innovative technologies out of the "valley of death" and into the hands of warfighters. The valley of death refers to the "painful and challenging" place where the Department of Defense's pilot technologies go to die unless they can move from the R&D phase into …

[amanfromMars 1]

How to Boldly Go .....

Does DARPA/US Cyber Command/US Department of Defense recognise/suspect/fear that the likes of a switched-on El Reg is an ideal stealthy vessel for floating and fronting novel warfighter programs/remote semi autonomous virtualised projects of specific particular and peculiar interest to those of their own and international competitors and internetional opposition in Future Research and Almighty AIDevelopment fields?

The interviewee here, Tejas Patel, DARPA's Constellation program manager, suggests that then would the US be more likely than not to demonstrate a leading ability via proactive principal party engagement, an initial exclusive pioneering fact-finder contact ...... which is something very simple and easily followed/copied by any similarly interested and interesting parties.

That is most definitely Who Dares Win Wins Territory.

[amanfromMars 1]

The Price of Failure to Boldly Go .....

Absence of that very specific US demonstration of leading ability/third party engagement/foreign alien contact and the vulnerability to be exploited and expanded upon be very well known and further confirmed as self-destructively catastrophic.

[TheGriz]

Who cares about DARPA. Jessica is a major cute-y. :)