The subcommittee is "encouraging the use of commercially available data" to help fill ISR gaps identified by military commanders, but there's also has concerns about overlap in acquisition of commercial ISR.
SOCOM "working very hard" to use AI and machine learning-driven "sentiment analysis" to better craft messaging, Gen. Richard Clarke, commander of US Special Operations Command, said.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
Special Operations Command wants to link up sensors, space-based assets and open source data to give operators improved situational awareness.
"The flood of new imagery capabilities is overwhelming. Data driven technologies like artificial intelligence are essential," Gen. Richard Clarke, head of Special Operations Command, told the annual GEOINT conference today.
"I don't see a direct threat to the homeland today, but I think it's something that we have to be aware of," Gen. Richard Clarke said.
“The future will be won by those who dominate the full digital spectrum,” Lt. Gen. Francis Beaudette, commander of Army Special Operations Command, says. “It will be as important as seizing and holding terrain.”
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
"The SOF that we have is not the SOF we will need" for the future, head of Air Force Special Ops Command, Lt. Gen. James Slife, warned today.
Artificial intelligence developed to hunt terrorists can help track Russian and Chinese targets as well – especially amidst murky, chaotic conflicts in the “grey zone” between peace and open war.
''As we look at the lethality, precision and mobility requirements as examples, we absolutely have to develop them so that they can compete and win with Russia and China,” SOCOM commander Gen. Richard Clarke says.
Leonardo DRS keeps on keeping SOCOM connected.
As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
Special Operations leaders are breaking their "Iron Man" project into its component parts, creating what they see as a "Hyper Enabled Operator."
The Pentagon's new Special Ops leader is looking to the defense industry for help in meeting peer adversaries, but he also has a bone to pick.