Despite past battles over Project Maven and other military uses of AI, “Google and many others” are now working with the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, its new acting director says.
“I spent the first 15 years of my career walking around in a lab with a laser, saying ‘does anyone want this…’ and the warfighter [kept] going ‘that’s adorable,’” Craig Robin recalled ruefully. “Just recently there’s been a tremendous pull [because] we simply just got out it into the user’s hands and they recognized the value.”
Do more with less: streamline workflows, reduce duplication, invest upfront to save long-term.
The military will consolidate from dozens of different, often-incompatible counter-drone defenses to just seven — with a single common standard for command & control.
The Army’s eager to link its missile defense C2 network to the Air Force, Navy, and Marines – as long as that doesn’t slow the millisecond timing required to hit high-speed targets.
With tens of thousands of military and civilian personnel working from home, IT projects that normally take years to grind through the bureaucracy are now happening in weeks -- but cybersecurity concerns persist.
"You'll see some significant changes” in the Navy report “regarding the portion of the fleet that supports maneuver of Marines and the expeditionary elements of that," Gen. David Berger says.
As threats rapidly evolve, digital engineering, manufacturing capacity and robust supply chains are critical to meeting challenges.
A modern mechanized military lives or dies by maintenance. But what if a computer could warn you when your weapons and vehicles were about to break, so you could fix them before they ever let you down?
Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col Mike Andrews added in a statement that the temporary Mitsubishi closure only affects Japanese aircraft, while Lockheed “is restricting travel” to the Cameri facility, based on a US Embassy travel warning.
Four bases around the country will pioneer military use of the new high-speed communications network technology.
"The JROC tended to be a receiver of requirements from services, not a generator of requirements for the services to meet," Gen. Hyten said. "That's not what was intended by Congress."
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.
All-Domain Operations is"the biggest key to the future of the entire budget," the Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs said, "because if we figure that out, we’ll have a significant advantage over everybody in the world for a long time."
Rep. Thornberry, the senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, said the White House move to repurpose military procurement money “is in violation of the separation of powers within the Constitution... and I believe that it requires Congress to take action.”
The Army’s slashed its 2021 buys of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) and upgraded Paladin PIM howitzer to give the factory time to make fixes, particularly to quality control.
This year’s battle of the budget between the services has been much more public than any in recent memory, as Breaking D readers know. Mackenzie Eaglen, who writes for us regularly on Congress and the budget, does a deep dive and presents the results of which service really wins in the budget — and why […]