Cross Domain Solutions: Enabling All Domain Operations
Enabling the sharing of unclassified, Secret, and Top Secret mission critical data across warfighting domains and security boundaries at the tactical edge.
Enabling the sharing of unclassified, Secret, and Top Secret mission critical data across warfighting domains and security boundaries at the tactical edge.
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By Barry Rosenberg
AI will help commanders make sound decisions so much faster, said Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, that waging war without it will work as well as cavalry charging machine guns on the Western Front.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“Being able to take out 10 targets in rapid succession…that’s very exciting. It’s awesome,” said Lt. Gen. Michael Groen. “But it’s not enough.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The US military is rolling out AI-enabled projects like the Air Force’s Airborne Battle Management System or the Army’s Project Convergence. But the novelty of these demonstrations and the effort required to pull them off suggest that—unlike Silicon Valley—DoD is struggling to incorporate AI into its combat systems, aircraft, ships, and other equipment. DoD promulgated an…
By Bryan Clark and Dan Patt
The Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center convened a dozen foreign partners, ranging from NATO allies to Israel, Japan, Korea, and neutral Finland & Sweden.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Instead of the Joint AI Center building everything in-house, the JAIC is creating technical and contracting tools to help any Defense Department organization launch its own AI projects.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Which Systems Can Be Improved With Better UX? All Of them.
“We have great technology, which is constantly being improved, but quite often the end user has been left to deal with the complexity of these systems,” said Visual Logic Partner Andy Van Fleet.
While China has invested heavily in “brute force” big data, Nand Mulchandani and aides said, US companies are far more innovative — but will they work with the Pentagon?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
After an AI beat humans 5-0 in AlphaDogfight simulations this summer, Mark Esper announced, a future version will be installed in actual airplanes for “a real-world competition.” But military AI will adhere to strict ethical limits, he said.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. Victory lies not in the weapons themselves, Nand Mulchandani says, but in AI algorithms that advise commanders on how best to wield them.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Robert Work, who pushed hard for AI under Obama, calls for major reforms to catch up with China and Russia. His model? Adm. Rickover’s creation of the nuclear Navy in the 1950s.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“ABMS is about taking the concept of the OODA Loop and transcending it from something that people do to something that machines do,” says Will Roper, AF acquisition czar.
By Theresa Hitchens
Is the Air Force about to make the same mistakes with Skyborg that it made with the F-22 and F-35? Sure, they created the most capable aircraft in the world, but they neglected to give them the capacity to share their assessment of the air battlespace situation with our other fighters—and sharing data is the…
By Brent Sadler and John Venable
The Joint Common Foundation will put a standard set of tools in the cloud, where any Defense Department AI project can use them.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Pentagon must avoid the ancient Roman tactic of “burning the bridge behind them” by immediately throwing aside older weapons systems in favor of wholesale investments in new technologies and platforms. While force modernization is necessary, the Department of Defense does not have the time, track record, or the funding to rapidly field replacements to…
By Mackenzie Eaglen and John Ferrari