From the skies over Ukraine, to Chinese cyber attacks, to bureaucratic battlefields inside the Pentagon, artificial intelligence has grown from an experiment or niche product to an increasingly routine tool of military organizations.
“We’ll formally take the stick in a week,” said Maj. Gen. Luke Cropsey, head of the Air Force’s increasingly powerful PEO-C3BM, which is building new AI-enhanced command networks for the Air Force and the other services.
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
While combat has seen a drone revolution, the US has made subtle but real advances in applying AI to military planning, intelligence, and “all domain” command and control.
The Joint Fires Network, meant to match weapons to targets across a theater of war, is a crucial pillar of the Pentagon's nascent global command system, CJADC2.
Brig. Gen. Mastalir also said the military plans to set up a Space Forces Japan on the model of US Space Forces - Korea.
"We truly have demonstrated that the vision of JADC2 and the vision of the Joint Fires Network is a reality and we can do it," SDA Director Derek Tournear told Breaking Defense.
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
"So we think we can actually help make it easier for you to be able to get after the key programs that the warfighter needs," Adm. John Acquilino said.