“Does (JADC2) increase lethality? The answer should be yes. (JADC2) makes us more lethal. We're a warfighting organization. That's what this is designed to do.”—Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, director of C4 and CIO, Joint Staff.
Aligning current and emerging technologies for Joint All-Domain Command and Control is the enabler that will let warfighters acquire data and quickly act on it by applying effects where they need them, when they need to, and on the timeline they need them.
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
AI is a key growth investment area for DoD, with nearly $1 billion allocated for 2020. Breaking Defense takes an in-depth look at what's happening, and what's ahead.
"How do I even know what’s normal and what’s abnormal so I can detect anomalies? We simply don’t know," says Dean Souleles, chief technology advisor for the Director of National Intelligence.
The military will use Silicon Valley's approach to quickly field imperfect products, then rapidly improve them based on user feedback.
"They’re willing to say, 'I’m willing to sacrifice the lives of American servicemen and women, I'm willing to take more civilian casualties ... on the off chance that sometime in the future this weapon will exist."
Hybrid communications requirements will shape the Army’s data infrastructure of the future.
Before the Air Force will trust AI to pick out targets, Gen. Holmes said, it has to get smarter than a human three-year-old.
Innovators! You have until Aug. 23 to submit white papers on how to make the future infantry squad “10 times more effective.”
It’s one thing to wargame the impact of faster jets, bigger bombs, or tougher tanks. But how do you simulate something that’s smarter than you are?
“Autonomy may look like an Achilles’ heel, and in a lot of ways it is” – but for both sides, DTRA's Nick Wager said. “I think that’s as much opportunity as that is vulnerability. We are good at this… and we can be better than the threat.”
CAE and General Atomics use AI to enhance warfighter readiness, refine aerospace platforms, and learn from simulations.