Defense experts and the Pentagon’s hypersonics R&D director told us the Union of Concerned Scientists study, which argues hypersonic weapons offer marginal improvements over existing weapons at an outsized cost, got something wrong at every step.
Independent experts and the Pentagon’s hypersonics R&D director tell us a study of hypersonics by the Union of Concerned Scientists overlooks the very real advantages the new weapons offer the US – and its adversaries.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
The IC has major policy questions to decide "before we just go off and build Skynet," says NGA's AI guru Joe Victor.
Upcoming Pacific Defender wargames will held showcase Army’s investments in long-range missiles, missile defense, logistics, and information warfare, said Gen. James McConville, the Army Chief of Staff.
Applying AI to everything from predictive maintenance to financial management can save the military billions, the director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center told us – if the Pentagon can reform its cumbersome bureaucracy to exploit rapid advances in technology.
“There's still a lot of folks who believe that, ‘oh, somebody's going to bring a big box of AI and set it on my desk,’” Lt. Gen. Mike Groen, director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, says. “This is not some black box. This is about your insight into the battlefield.”
Do more with less: streamline workflows, reduce duplication, invest upfront to save long-term.
"We've done about all we can do with this ship and we've maxed out the space, weight, power and cooling,” Rear Adm. Paul Schlise said. "It's time to reset to a new large surface combatant."
Today’s huge HQs are slow-moving “rocket magnets” that can’t keep up in 21st century combat, the director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center told us in an exclusive interview. To survive and win, Lt. Gen. Mike Groen said, the military must replace cumbersome manual processes with AI.
With shrinking budgets and a growing need for new technologies, “the Army will need to make a compelling case to Congress to fund new capabilities and truncate legacy programs,” said CSBA’s Tom Mahnken.
The Air Force's new AI copilot could next be flown by a Skyborg drone, says AF acquisition czar Will Roper.
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
The Pentagon remains stuck in the “success” of the 1990s and Desert Storm, which hinders its ability to take advantage of revolutions in smartphone, cloud computing and social media technologies.
"For flying an instrument approach, having an AI copilot makes sense," says retired general 'Hawk' Carlisle, former head of Air Combat Command.
NGA is tapping industry for new capabilities, such as "persistent change detection" and "geolocation" of potential targets such as an adversary's ships.
"I would argue, that's the tax. If you want airpower, if you want space power, then you have to be able to defend," Lt. Gen. Joseph Guastella, Air Force deputy chief of staff for operations, told the Mitchell Institute today.