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The conflict in Gaza has drawn the US Navy’s surface forces into an extended missile and drone defense mission to support the Israeli Defense Forces.
By Justin KatzAI can make logistics data as valuable as intelligence or operational data for mission success
Valuable intelligence insights can be gleaned from logistics or flight-test data when artificial intelligence or machine learning is applied.
The National Institute of Standards & Technology is about to release its long-awaited “post-quantum encryption” algorithms. Then comes the hard part: installing them everywhere.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Here’s what to watch for in the defense network, cyber and innovation space in 2024.
By Jaspreet Gill
Modernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
Best-of-breed common models and architecture enable virtual training and testing with the same data in a cyber-resilient posture.
Multi-Domain Operations: Global C2 and Joint Operations
A trio of new longer range missiles could also be in soldiers’ hands over the next dozen months.
By Ashley Roque
Even if the Gaza conflict were to stop tomorrow, the international community has been shown how vulnerable vessels in the Red Sea can be — lessons already learned in the Arabian Gulf and off the coast of east Africa.
By Agnes Helou
Military innovation and savings: Go commercial
DoD uses FAR Part 12 acquisitions to save hundreds of millions of dollars in “of a type” systems like civil landing systems with applicability to military aircraft.
Russia also turned to the Middle East in November, pitching up at the Dubai Air Show to drum up business, and though no orders or contracts were publicly announced, an industrial presence featuring some of the country’s leading defense companies made a lasting impression.
By Tim Martin
The Space Force has made some visible progress in its “pivot” towards resiliency, but acquisition reform remains a hard slog.
By Theresa Hitchens
From more sophisticated systems like the Air Force’s collaborative combat aircraft to cheap kamikaze weapons, the drone had its heyday in 2023 — and promises, coupled with AI, to be a much bigger part of future warfighting.
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Over the last 11 months, the US has made major progress in defining “Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence” and even getting other nations to sign on the idea — without ever actually precluding the kind of automated “killer robots” activists want to ban.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
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By Breaking Defense
The advent of AUKUS has brought the Navy’s submarine community into the national spotlight and that has led it to breakaway from its historical silence.
By Justin Katz
An administration official said it’s “very central to our strategy” to think about “how do we take that next step in disrupting Russia’s attempts to be able to produce the weapons systems, the industrial goods that it needs to prosecute its war?”
By Lee Ferran
Defense Department Chief Information Officer John Sherman set the tone early in the year by telling Breaking Defense a major focus over 2023 would be aiming for baseline, targeted zero trust within four years.
By Jaspreet Gill
ROC-X – The solution to organic precision strike capabilities
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI presented integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
Two senior commanders of US naval forces in the Middle East as well as an expert from JINSA argue the US must hit Houthi targets in Yemen to deter that group and other Iran-backed forces from widening the current conflict.
By Mark I. Fox, John W. Miller and Ari Cicurel