“In the first week of August, cellphones across Russia lit up with surprising text messages. They came from different numbers, but each said the same thing in Russian: “The US State Department is offering up to $10 million for information about interference in the US elections. If you have information, contact rfj.tips/bngc.” The State Department...Read More

Defense News published an article on November 4, “The military must learn to operate more in the gray zone,” citing a recent interview on the Information Professionals Association (IPA) Cognitive Crucible podcast (Cognitive Crucible Episode 13 available on IPA’s website) with Col. Brian Russell, commander of II Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group (MIG).  In the...Read More

Detecting botnet signals using process mining Editor’s Note: John Bicknell, Vice President of the Information Professionals Association (IPA), and Werner G. Krebs, co-authored a new article in the Journal for Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory on how artificial intelligence (AI), process mining technologies illuminated bot activity within a 2015-era terrorist Twitter dataset. The bot logic...Read More

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Dr. Paul Lieber, an IPA member and Chief Scientist at COLSA Corporation.  The material below is Dr. Lieber’s personal opinion and does not imply an official IPA position or endorsement.  However, as an association we welcome member views on this blog and intend to further a...Read More

The Pentagon on October 2, 2020 released a summary of the “Irregular Warfare Annex” to the National Defense Strategy of 2018, citing the need to innovate irregular or unconventional capabilities, and combine them with traditional combat power, to maintain the upper hand in global power competition. Irregular warfare is a struggle among state and non-state...Read More

Editor’s note: Following the trend in the military Services, the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) has expanded its Cyber National Mission Initiative to include information operations and electronic warfare, dubbing the new pillar, Joint Information Warfare. The JAIC already has a new tool called “Entropy” to roll out across the Department of Defense that...Read More

Editor’s Note: Over the last several years, convergence has become a commonly used term to capture the combination of various new technologies and their potential to transform missions and applications in ways that were previously unknown. Nearly all the military Services are looking at how artificial intelligence, machine learning, new methods of determination location, and...Read More

Editor’s Note: The PSYWAR podcast is made by active duty Psychological Operations Soldiers from the US Army’s 8th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) for the benefit of other members of the special operations community, and Soldiers/civilians interested in joining the PSYOP Regiment. Each week, the podcast discusses a new topic on Information Warfare along with some...Read More

The Defending Democratic Institutions Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will hold an Online Event Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020 at noon EST on “Combatting Malign Influence in 2020: A Conversation with Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen.” Rosen’s remarks will focus on U.S. government efforts to counter foreign disinformation given the forthcoming...Read More

Military.com’s story August 16, “Fake News is Wreaking Havoc on the Battlefield. Here’s What the Military’s Doing About It,” demonstrates some of the challenges of identifying fake news and disinformation campaigns, particularly for U.S. troops in the battlefield, and highlights some of the new military counter-missions to address these sophisticated and ambiguous enemies. The article...Read More