Army Robots Hunt Tanks In Project Convergence
The pair of unmanned scout vehicles had enough AI smarts aboard to navigate cross-country, identify “enemy” forces, and open fire – but a human still decides whether to shoot.
Longer-Range Missiles & More AI: Project Convergence 2021
Next fall, the Army aims to test a new artificial intelligence for artillery and fire the prototype PrSM missile to its full 300-plus-mile range -- once they find a venue that's big enough.
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America needs next-gen solutions to counter modern air and missile threats
Defending a country the size of the US from threats requires advanced sensing, communications and interception capabilities.
Marine F-35s Share Targeting Data With Army: Project Convergence
The Army’s future-warfare exercise overcame a host of technical glitches to link systems ranging from NRO and NGA spy satellites to Marine Corps fighter jets.
Pushing Data ‘From Space To Mud’: Project Convergence
“I have never in my life seen the cooperation between the agencies…the services…[and] across the Army” that’s happening in this fall’s wargames, Army space expert Willie Nelson told me.
Replacing Spatulas With Robots At Army Ammo Plants
A worker died in 2017 scooping up explosive tetrazene by hand with a spatula. The Army and Congress agree an upgrade is long overdue — but it won't be cheap.
‘Improvised Mode’: The Army Network Evolves In Project Convergence
How do you get targeting data from satellite to howitzer in less than 20 seconds, on a tactical network that was never designed to do that? You improvise, Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher told me.
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Voyager is fortifying the U.S. Defense supply chain
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
OMFV: Army Team Won’t Compete For Bradley Replacement
Industry and Congress were deeply skeptical of the Army’s suggestion to enter a government design team in the OMFV competition. Now the Army has backed off.
Lockheed Aims For Laser On Fighter By 2025
How do you keep a laser focused on a target moving at hundreds of miles per hour? The answer is crucial to Lockheed lasers being fitted on Army trucks and Air Force fighters over the next few years.
Military AI Coalition Of 13 Countries Meets On Ethics
The Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center convened a dozen foreign partners, ranging from NATO allies to Israel, Japan, Korea, and neutral Finland & Sweden.
A Slew To A Kill: Project Convergence
Instead of a single centralized Skynet trying to mastermind (or micromanage) operations, the Army is looking at a federation of more specialized, less ambitious AIs, each assisting humans in different ways.
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Winning the cognitive domain — A methodology built for democratic constraints
The challenge for Western democratic institutions is not a lack of capability — it is a structural one.
Air Force To Train ‘Lead Wings’ For Major Wars; First Test Next Month
Instead of sending individual squadrons to the Middle East, the newly created 15th Air Force wants to train entire wings together for rapid deployment against Russia, China and other “near peers.”
Tankers, Transports Need Real-Time Threat Data To Survive: AMC
As Air Mobility Command looks to connect its aircraft to high-speed battle networks like ABMS, it is still struggling to get its KC-46 tankers working properly.
Kill Chain In The Sky With Data: Army’s Project Convergence
Over the southwest desert, drones large and small are autonomously avoiding anti-aircraft threats while feeding real-time targeting data over an AI network to troops on the ground.
JAIC Wants AI ‘Victory Gardens’ Across DoD
Instead of the Joint AI Center building everything in-house, the JAIC is creating technical and contracting tools to help any Defense Department organization launch its own AI projects.