4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne)

The 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, NC, is the only active Army psychological operations unit. The 1,300-member unit constitutes 26 percent of all U.S. Army psychological operations units; the remaining 74 percent being filled by reservists. As of May 2006, the unit was slated to eventually grow to approximately 2,300 troops by the year 2011.
The mission of the 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) is to deploy anywhere in the world on short notice, and plan, develop, and conduct Civil Affairs and Psychological operations in support of Unified Commanders, coalition forces, or other government agencies as directed by the National Command Authority.
The 4th POG (A) personnel (soldiers and civilian) include regional experts and linguists who understand the political, cultural ethnic, and religious subtleties of the target audience. They also include functional experts in technical fields such as broadcast journalism radio operations, print, illustration, interrogation layout operations, and long-range tactical communications.

by Fahd

for more info visit: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/4psyopgp.htm

US Commando SOLO II (airplane) used for PSYOP operations!

The aircraft fly a variety of missions. In Afghanistan, they're broadcasting music, news and information in the various languages of the country. These are radio broadcasts only.
The planes are part of the 193rd Special Operations Wing of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard. They are based at Harrisburg International Airport, Pa.
Army specialists in the language and customs of the area prepare the broadcasts.
Ham radio operators can listen to the broadcast at 8700 kilohertz, said Air Force 1st Lt. Edward Shank, a spokesman for the squadron. The squadron has participated in operations in Panama, Bosnia, Kosovo and during the Gulf War. Their aircraft have been modified to not only handle radio, but television broadcasts. They can broadcast via tape or live. "If needed, we have the capability to take a speech by the President of the United States and beam it live via satellite to the aircraft, which then would broadcast it," Shank said.
The name "Commando Solo II" also has meaning. Commando refers to the special operations mission, and Solo refers to the fact that the aircraft can go it alone, Shank said.
The US military has also been conducting psychological operations (Psyops) such as leaflet drops and radio programme broadcasts through EC-130E ‘Commando Solo’ aircraft, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld confirmed. Psyops are typically begun prior to offensive military operations to help ‘prepare’ the battlefield and generate support from local populations.

By Fahd

for more info visit:http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=44603

and : http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jdw/jdw011007_1_n.shtml

CYBERTERRORIST NETWORKS

It is important to map what a cyberterrorist network would look like. For this, it's useful to look at traditional hacker networks. It can be safely said that hackers, like terrorists, tend to work in asymmetric, non-hierarchical formation, which means that they do not have organizations like gangs and so forth. The concept of netwar (Arquilla & Ronfeldt 2001) might or might not be useful at explaining these new kinds of formations. Although the concept of netwar is at odds with traditional forms of organization, criminal networks tend to have the following types of members, which can be compared to the types of members found in a terrorist network, as follows:
Membership Roles/Components of Hacking/Terrorist Networks:

• Organizers -- core members who steer group
• Leadership -- charismatics who lead group
• Insulators -- members who protect the core
• Bodyguards -- members who protect leaders
• Communicators -- pass on directives
• Seconds in command -- pass on orders
• Guardians -- security enforcers
• Intelligence -- and counterintelligence agents
• Extenders -- recruiters of new members
• Financiers -- fund raisers & money launderer
• Monitors -- advisors about group weaknesses
• Logistics -- keepers of safe houses
• Members -- those who do the hacking
• Operations -- those who commit the terror
• Crossovers -- people with regular jobs
• Sleepers -- members living under deep cover

By Fahd

for more info visit:http://www.apsu.edu/oconnort/3100/3100lect02d.htm

The Army's Robot Big Dog.......

this big army robots can always follow soldiers to battle and help them whrever duty calls.Click here to download an incredible video (WMV format) of the BigDog in action.

The amazing "BigDog" is a new type of military transport robot that can carry up to 120 pounds, walk up to 3.3 mph and climb inclines up to 45 degrees.And the robo-rover has eyes: It sports a stereo camera and laser scanner mounted where the head would go, if it had a head. Although these don't currently influence navigation, the next BigDog will use them to read the terrain ahead and spot obstacles. hani for more info:http://www.popsci.com/node/3409

ASIMO conducts an orchestra, and the humans obey!

first what is ASIMO......ASIMo is a humanoid robot created by Honda Motor Company. Standing at 130 centimeters (4 feet 3 inches) and weighing 54 kilograms (119 pounds), the robot resembles a small astronaut wearing a backpack and can walk or run on two feet at speeds up to 6 km/h (3.7 mph)[1]. ASIMO was created at Honda's Research & Development Wako Fundamental Technical Research Center in Japan.

Detroit, Michigan, United States. 13-May-2008. (Source: ABC News via The Associated Press) Honda’s ASIMO robot becomes a music machine as it picks up a baton to conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra through the opera tune “The Impossible Dream.” The performance was to highlight a $1M gift from Honda to the orchestra’s music education fund.

Practice really makes something better,in the first rehersal asimo conducts the orchestra with a very good way but there was a mistake when asimo slow the tempo.this was really a mistake but after training with the orchestra ASIMO was getting so musch better and the engineers dont have a big problem in removing the mistake of slowing the tempo........so can a humanoid robot be a very goood musician...... hani
for more info:www.cyberpunkreview.com

Who controls your data??

NO matter where you go,anytime you want you can always check and see your data......before the revolution of internet your data were not linked to each other in a way,but now after this new technologies and developpement of internet,anybody can check and see or hack your datas because you are putting your files in an illusion world.

Bruce Schneier sums up what people need to do in four words: TAKE BACK OUR DATA. He calls for data privacy laws to do the trick:
We need a comprehensive data privacy law. This law should protect all information about us, and not be limited merely to financial or health information. It should limit others’ ability to buy and sell our information without our knowledge and consent. It should allow us to see information about us held by others, and correct any inaccuracies we find. It should prevent the government from going after our information without judicial oversight. It should enforce data deletion, and limit data collection, where necessary. And we need more than token penalties for deliberate violations.

The MEDIA'S that PSYOP can make through.

For more infos visit: www.cryptome.org

by Fahd

Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) flying insect robots

The primary center for the micro flying robot work is the University of California at Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Robotics and Intelligent Machines Laboratory, whose "Areas of Research" include the "Micro-Robotics" & "Micromechanical Flying Insect" projects, headed by Professor Ron Fearing. The Lab's Manager is San Francisco Robotics Society of America member Winthrop Williams.

The U.S Army Psyop enters the media through to CNN door!!!

Maj. Thomas Collins, U.S. Information Service has confirmed that "psyops" (psychological operations) personnel, soldiers and officers, have worked in the CNN headquarters in Atlanta. The lend/lease exercise was part of an Army program called "Training With Industry." According to Collins, the soldiers and officers, "... worked as regular employees of CNN. Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. They helped in the production of news."
When asked if the introduction of military personnel into a civilian news organization was standard operating procedure, one source said, "That question is above my pay grade ... but I hope so. It's what we do."
The CNN military personnel were members of the Airmobile Fourth Psychological Operations Group, stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. One of the main tasks of this group of almost 1200 soldiers and officers is to spread 'selected information.' Critics say that means dissemination of propaganda.

by Fahd
for more info visit:http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17437

what is veriship??????

VERISHIP is a chip that can be implanted in your body,veriship's idea is to link the chip to the person’s medical records.The VeriChip Personal Identification System is a small radio frequency identification device (RFID) that is implanted into the human body.
* How much memory on this chip? Enough to get my full health record on it? How about my allergies and basic condition?
* How difficult is it to write to the chip? What about its security?
* How common will readers be?
* Who controls what gets written on the chip? Can it be hacked? Conversely, can it be accessed when needed?
* Can the chip be cloned? (Clone me, Doctor Memory!)

Current chips are nothing more than a number that needs to be tied to your personal records in some corp-government database. The next chips may have memory, possibly recording devices, to store your (deviant) thoughts for use against you, as a way to resurrect or clone you if you die or maybe write a final cut on the person's life.
larry dignan talk more about this ship and give his idea about this new chip....

by hani

US Army awards for best invention of Armory

Humvee Crew Extraction D-ring, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center at Redstone Arsenal, AL. Combat locks on the up-armored Humvee often get so damaged the doors can’t be opened when under fire – or under water. The D-ring provides solid anchor points for the hooks of a tow strap, chain or cable to pull open damaged doors. Or other innovative options like the 10th Mountain Division’s “Rat Claw.” The project was handled by a Fast Assistance in Sciences Team (FAST) that deploys to help Soldiers solve problems that can be resolved within 6 months.


By Fahd
For more info visit:
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/us-army-awards-top-10-inventions-of-2006-03378/

SAIC’s Front-Line BAT-DMS Biometrics Contact

SAIC in San Diego, CA was awarded on Sept. 25, 2007, a delivery order amount of $13.6 million as part of a $64.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for operations and maintenance of the Biometrics Automated Toolset and Detention Management System. See this DID article for updated links and background, covering biometrics technology and the ways in which the BAT system has become an offensive asset for US forces in Iraq.
Work will be performed in Iraq/Afghanistan (80%), and Arlington, VA (20%), and is expected to be complete by Dec. 16, 2008. Bids solicited via the World Wide Web on Aug. 20, 2001, and 2 bids were received by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command in Huntsville, AL (DASG60-02-D-0006).

for more details:http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/cat/logistics-support/intelligence-psyops/
by Fahd

A Different Kind of Net-Centric Warfare in Iraq

Defense Industry Daily’s mandate is clear, and summed up well in our motto “daily news for defense procurement managers and contractors.” In most cases, our coverage limits itself to the events and issues around contracts that have already been issued, and/or key issues of doctrine and policy that are related to defense procurement. We also include reports from the field that bring home useful information about equipment performance, and serve as a reminder of what’s really important: usefulness to the people on the front lines.


Sometimes, news from the front lines also highlights important trends and force structure issues that go beyond the performance of any one system. “(Lt. Col. David) Labouchere of Mesopotamia,” which covered that British commander’s successful mobile/Bedouin approach in Iraq, was one. Now Noah Shachtman of WIRED’s award-winning defense blog Danger Room has written another. In the wake of the discussions in defense departments and ministries around the world concerning “network-centric warfare,” events like Israel’s recent Winograd Commission post-mortem of the 2006 war in Lebanon, and the Nov 28/07 security pact involving 6,000 Sunnis in Hawija, Noah’s article offers important food for thought to policy-makers and procurement managers alike. In his words…



“It’s an attempt at explaining why we’ve seen such a drop in violence in Iraq in recent months, and why it took so long to see a shift. My short answer: the U.S. dropped its somewhat techno-centric approach to prosecuting the war—and started focusing on Iraq’s social, political, tribal, and cultural networks instead…. For the story, I scored a rare opportunity to spend time with a U.S. “psychological operations” team, getting into the heads of the people of Fallujah; hung out with an Army colonel who worked his tribal connections to bring stability to one of Iraq’s roughest towns; spent time with the heads of a controversial program to embed anthropologists into combat units; and interviewed General David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Iraq.”
“How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social – Not Electronic” is worthwhile reading as one contemplates the future of net-centric warfare as it is currently sold – and what it might be turning into.

by Fahd