The agreement will see AuterionOS, the company’s operating system for uncrewed systems and Nemesis, Auterion’s AI-powered drone swarming platform, integrated into a new generation of unmanned systems being developed by NCSIST and Taiwan’s defense companies.
Future fleets of military ground vehicles will be modular, autonomous and seamlessly integrated to ensure networked lethality and Soldier survivability.
“Tactical operating system” for warfighters has evolved to provide more situational awareness of the battlefield.
"Imagine you work at a chemical research part of a base. Its location is secret. But you have a smart car. Through other espionage activities, I found out you work there. I hack your phone or your car’s online account," Keatron Evans said. "I track your location as you go to work every day. Now I know the specific GPS location of your work facility. It goes downhill quickly from there."
DARPA used the collaborative to find and contract the industry competitors in the AlphaDogfight which resulted in an AI 'pilot' built by Heron Systems beat a top Air Force F-16 pilot in a simulated WWII-style aerial battle.
DoD has "so many hundreds of programs that we really couldn't do a fair evaluation of each individual activity," Mark Lewis, director of modernization in the Research and Engineering office, said today.
Bill Greenwalt is sort of the Pied Piper of military acquisition policy. Where he leads, others often follow. After he wrote a series of op-eds for Breaking Defense recommending major changes to the Pentagon's acquisition system, Sen. John McCain lured Bill back to his old job at the Senate Armed Services Committee. Greenwalt rewrote the laws, shaking up Defense Department acquisition. Bill is back, pointing to new acquisition problems, this latest one with his former employer -- the Government Accountability Office. It's a doozy, as you'll see.
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.