“Before AI can find its place, really, in the cockpit in a formation, it kind of has to earn its wings first,” DARPA Deputy Director David Honey says.
By Theresa Hitchens“There are a lot of requirements out there and we could use everything we had and a little bit more,” says ACC head Gen. Mike Holmes, but “we need to put some priority on modernization.”
By Theresa HitchensToday, “we have Navy-only systems,” said Vice Adm. Lewis, “which is really frustrating” — in fact, it’s “asinine.”
By Theresa HitchensThe military will use Silicon Valley’s approach to quickly field imperfect products, then rapidly improve them based on user feedback.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The Air Force wants to develop information warfare capabilities to “deter malign activities from [the] information warfare level all the way up to conflict,” says Air Combat Command head Gen. Mike Holmes.
By Theresa HitchensBefore the Air Force will trust AI to pick out targets, Gen. Holmes said, it has to get smarter than a human three-year-old.
By Colin ClarkHyten is not just one of the nation’s 40 active-duty four-star officers, already an elite club with fewer members than a single NFL football team. He is also the the leader of the space community and the advocate-in-chief for space specialists’ careers.
By Theresa HitchensAdding extra firepower to the F-35 shows how loudly Lockheed hears the footsteps of Boeing’s F-15X approaching.
By Colin ClarkThe Air Force wants more planes – and believes it has found a way to get them.
By Colin ClarkWe’ve already got SMC and the NRO. What the heck will a Space Development Agency do that’s different, and why.
By Colin ClarkAFA ORLANDO: The Air Force, which relies on large vulnerable targets known as JSTARS, AWACS, Rivet Joint and other aircraft, knows it may need to shift its reliance on big, largely indefensible planes to fused networks of sensors as they are doing with JSTARS. That was the word from Gen. Mike Holmes here today when…
By Colin ClarkWASHINGTON: The Air Force and Army couldn’t start an important set of tabletop wargames last week because of the government shutdown. Air Force Gen. Mike Holmes revealed the information when he disclosed today that the Air Force was starting multi-domain war games to hammer out how the land and air services would work together in…
By Colin Clark