Of military to military relations with China, the US is "ready to talk when you're ready to talk," White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said today in a speech to the Arms Control Association.
The revised DoD Directive 3000.09 refines an obscure review process, adding broad AI ethics principles but still not actually forbidding development or deployment of would-be killer robots.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
A new report from the Arms Control Association warns that without adopting such measures, “cutting-edge technologies will be converted into military systems at an ever-increasing tempo, and the dangers to world security will grow apace."
It is time — in fact, past time — for Congress to demand answers about the Pentagon’s pursuit of hypersonic weapons capabilities.
The provision seeks to prevent the Nuclear Weapons Council "from further encroaching on the development of the NNSA budget," Kingston Reif, director of arms control and threat reduction policy at the Arms Control Association, told Breaking D.
The resignation of Trump's assistant secretary for arms control and verification weakens the State Department's already shaky bench in arms control talks.
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
A White House 180-degree turn on nuclear arms control inflicts whiplash on experts. What is real here?
"Look, the Obama administration indicated that Russia was in violation of the INF Treaty four years ago," said a staffer from the House Armed Services Committee. "If the treaty’s being violated, we have to take steps to ensure that stability some other way."
WASHINGTON: How do you stop 1,000 missiles? Current missile defenses can’t. They’re designed to stop a small attack from a rogue state. But even rogue states like North Korea — let alone power players like China’s Second Artillery — can now throw more missiles at us than we have interceptors to shoot them down. That’s why the military, industry, […]
We may well be on the cusp of another round of deep cuts — 50 percent or more — to the American nuclear arsenal. While nuclear weapons occupy a unique niche in America’s arsenal, they are fundamental to the nation’s strategic planning. Fewer nukes can mean more money for other national security needs, or for […]
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.