Defense Autonomous Working Group – DAWG

DIU offers $100M in prizes for voice-controlled AI-enabled drone swarm ‘orchestrator’

Instead of needing a specially trained human to remote pilot each drone or robot-boat, the Pentagon wants any servicemember to be able to give orders in plain English.

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

Air Warfare

‘It’s alive’: Biden-era Replicator drone initiative lives on as DAWG, looking at bigger UASs

Renamed the Defense Autonomous Working Group, the drone initiative is now conducting wargames and working on larger, longer-ranged attack drones, Adm. Sam Paparo and Pentagon CTO Emil Michael said.

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

Modernizing defense enterprise IT without disrupting the mission

Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.

By Breaking Defense