Biden officials say their proposed regulation will streamline routine sales to allies while stopping dangerous leaks to China. Oracle, NVIDIA, and industry associations say it will cripple their business. But the final call is up to Trump.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Weapons development redefined: How U.S. industry and government must collaborate
L3Harris is working to ensure our warfighters stay ahead of the rapidly evolving threat environment.
“We’re taking a very aggressive, innovative approach” to combating China’s tech strategy, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said at the Reagan Forum.
By Theresa Hitchens
“If we want to fight as a system… you have to start sharing technology now,” the former head of the Pentagon’s Joint AI Center told Breaking Defense. “We can’t build the system on the eve of battle.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“I have great hopes that this administration, with its bold unilateral actions on so many fronts, would take unilateral action with this regime on UAVs,” says Keith Webster, former DoD head of defense cooperation.
By Theresa Hitchens
The head of the Pentagon’s Protecting Critical Technology Task Force wants to tighten security controls. That may conflict with the push to streamline acquisition.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Predator B’s weapons, avionics and comms suites will all need to be specially configured to meet the needs of India’s military.
By Theresa Hitchens
Taking the “guesswork” out of AI for defense missions with RAG-V verification
By fact checking the AI through a new verification process for Large Language Models, it’s possible to reduce hallucinations from 5-10 percent to as low as 0.1 percent.
The new satellite export control rules being finalized by the Commerce and State Depts. will take into account the “need to maintain export controls with some countries, while streamlining them for others,” says Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
By Theresa Hitchens
Nicholas Eftimiades, a former senior US senior intelligence officer, said the Trump Administration policy “is very surgical in its approach,” and will have only a “moderate impact” on allied countries.
By Theresa Hitchens
UPDATED WASHINGTON: US commercial satellite sales to AsiaSat, and the company’s leasing of communications bandwidth to China, are not threats to US national security, say experts — contrary to charges by Republican Senators Charles Grassley and Joni Ernst. Instead, US export control law very deliberately has been crafted to encourage such sales in a…
By Theresa Hitchens
Fabrizio Boggiani, senior vice president of airborne marketing, says he sees “significant opportunities” for expanding Leonardo’s market share by selling mission packages to international institutions and countries who don’t “want to buy and own the asset, but want us to fly where they ask us to fly.”
By Theresa Hitchens
WASHINGTON: As China forges ahead trying to grab the head of the technology table by throwing money, policy and people at quantum computing and artificial intelligence, the US should carefully watch what companies China invests in or tries to buy. Those were the conclusions of three of the top China and technology experts in Washington…
By Colin Clark
CAPITOL HILL: Adm. John Richardson sailed through his Senate confirmation hearing this morning. But two ominous issues breached the surface, hinting at growing conflict between the administration and Hill Republicans over how to handle China. Richardson, an experienced submariner nominated for Chief of Naval Operations, deftly dodged the difficult questions from Senate Armed Services Committee: Does US-China…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
CAPITOL HILL: Take my mission — please. The armed services are notorious for overselling their capabilities and grabbing turf to justify budgets. But when it comes to ballistic missile defense, the Navy feels so overburdened that it is talking up land-based alternatives as superior to its vaunted Aegis ships. [Click here for Part I of this…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
In this op-ed, Jerry McGinn says the Senate Armed Services Committee should seriously consider the creation of a new office inside DoD for international cooperation.
By Jerry McGinn