Global populations were tracked as 'communications emitters' by a fleet designed to map digital exhaust and operate in the poisoned atmosphere of a nuclear, biological, or chemical war.
By Miriam Adler ·
Taxpayers were shut out of competitive bidding for decades as the Air Force used a secret shortcut to build and maintain over 50 surveillance and jamming aircraft.
By Marcus Boone ·
High-value targets are hunted by a guarded system designed to achieve first round fire for effect, leveraging a secret triangulation advantage restricted from foreign countries.
By Marcus Boone ·
Oversight was stripped away via Section 845 Authority to build a stealth drone for precision strikes, a process that allowed a one-page specification to justify $10 million per unit.
By Marcus Boone ·
Foreign vessels are tracked by their invisible radiation via the AN/ULR-21, a system meant to hunt in shallow waters before budget cuts pruned its reach in 1998.
By Marcus Boone ·
Soviet submarines were tracked by a hidden global acoustic dragnet the government denied for years, a system later bolstered by a $107 million Lockheed Martin contract.
By Marcus Boone ·