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

Update regarding the 9th Annual Pacific Information Operations (IO) & Electronic Warfare (EW) Symposium: Now 19-23 OCT Virtual & VTC This important annual event, now in its 9th year, will be delivered on-line and via secure video tele-conference in response to the current restrictions on travel to Hawaii during the global COVID-19 pandemic (namely the...Read More

The latest podcast in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ podcast, KennanX, “Disinformation’s Threat to Democracy,” features Wilson Center fellow Nina Jankowicz talking about foreign and domestic disinformation in America and how to build a more disinformation-resilient society. Jankowicz recently published “How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of...Read More

Editor’s note: When possible, the Information Professionals Association (IPA) tries to highlight the work and public activities of our members. Dr. Rand Waltzman, IPA Board Member and Deputy Chief Technology Officer at the RAND Corporation, tackles the problem of deepfakes and disinformation, and how to counter them, in a recent Financial Times commentary, “We cannot...Read More