Let Your Robots Off The Leash – Or Lose: AI Experts
In DARPA-Army experiments, soldiers tried to micromanage their drones and ground robots, slowing their reaction times and restricting their tactics. Can AIs earn troops’ trust?
Army Will Protect Key Weapons From Post-COVID Cuts: Pasquarette
When defense budgets fell in the past, “the easy button” has been cutting modernization to protect manpower and readiness, Lt. Gen. James Pasquarette says. “It's going to be different this time." around.”
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America must adopt a Sixth Domain of warfare doctrine
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.
Project Rainmaker: Army Weaves ‘Data Fabric’ To Link Joint Networks
The Pentagon’s grand plans for Joint All Domain Command & Control require translating masses of data across incompatible systems. “Unless you get the underpinnings of a foundational data fabric,” Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher told me, “it will never happen.”
Learn By Losing: Give AI To OPFOR First
The best way to show US troops the power of new technology like artificial intelligence, one general said, is to let them suffer defeat at its hands — in training exercises.
Army Creates New Units To Use Iron Dome
The two air & missile defense batteries will be based at Fort Bliss, Texas, with the first Iron Dome weapons systems arriving from Israeli manufacturer Rafael by the end of the year.
QinetiQ Delivers Armed Scout Robot To Army: RCV-L
The Robotic Combat Vehicle (Light), which can shoot missiles, launch mini-drones, and spot targets for artillery, combines a Marine Corps-tested unmanned vehicle with Army weapons and autonomy software.
Modernizing defense enterprise IT without disrupting the mission
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
FVL: Robotic Co-Pilots Will Help Fly Black Hawks In 2021
Sikorsky’s ALIAS automation will help human pilots fly more safely at low altitude and high speeds and in poor visibility. Modified UH-60s will test out the technology for next-gen Future Vertical Lift.
JAIC Chief Asks: Can AI Prevent Another 1914?
AI will help commanders make sound decisions so much faster, said Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, that waging war without it will work as well as cavalry charging machine guns on the Western Front.
Senate Appropriators Cut R&D To Buy More Weapons
The Senate Appropriations Committee proposal adds $2.4 billion to procure more weapons ASAP – especially F-35s – and cuts longer-range R&D by $2.1 billion.
Meet The Army’s Future Family Of Robot Tanks: RCV
The Army has outlined draft objectives for a range of Robotic Combat Vehicles, from an expendable light scout armed with a single anti-tank missile to a 30-ton unmanned tank as tough as the 70-ton M1 Abrams.
Breaking Defense announces Breaking Defense Europe, a new, distinct, European edition
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
The Pentagon’s Plans To Network EVERYTHING: Faist
The military sees huge potential in tiny electronics to revolutionize warfare with swarms of expendable, interconnected drones. But it doesn’t want to repeat the mistakes of the F-35 by building a single multi-service mega-program to build them.
Army Picks Tomahawk & SM-6 For Mid-Range Missiles
Lockheed Martin won a $339 million contract today to integrate two Raytheon-made missiles, now used by the Navy, into a truck-mounted artillery battery by 2023.
Army Wants Smaller Brigades, Stronger Divisions & Lots Of Robots
New technologies and organizations will give soldiers an edge, Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe said, but tanks and foot troops will still face brutal close combat.
5G Experiments In US Pave Way To Battlefields Abroad
Having awarded $600 million for 5G pilots at five bases in the US, the Pentagon will formally solicit for seven more in the coming months. But will 5G work in war zones?