“The potential for machine learning in aviation, whether military or civil, is enormous,” said Air Force Col. James Valpiani. “And these fundamental questions of how do we do it, how do we do it safely, how do we train them, are the questions that we are trying to get after.”
By Michael MarrowEnterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
“I don’t care what it takes to get after the threat. That’s really the cultural change that we’re embarking upon,” SSC head Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein told the Space Force Association’s inaugural Spacepower conference.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Space Force, in essence, wants to move the 2018-conceived Unified Data Library from a card catalog system to a machine-to-machine search engine using artificial intelligence tools.
By Theresa Hitchens
Project Maven, the Pentagon’s flagship AI program established in 2017, was shifted to the NGA last year.
By Jaspreet Gill The Defense Innovation Unit in FY22 awarded $203 million in prototype contracts across 165 vendors, started 52 new projects and saw a 47 percent increase in the total number of companies competing for a contract, according to DIU’s annual report.
By Jaspreet Gill
“A few years ago, we wouldn’t have had that problem because we wouldn’t have been talking to each other and our machines certainly wouldn’t have been talking to each other,” said Air Force Lt. Gen. Clint Hinote.” And so that’s a huge step forward is the fact that we are all sharing data right now, it’s almost too much.”
By Jaspreet Gill
“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.
By Theresa Hitchens
GA-ASI’s MQ-9B: The right UAV for persistence, power, and performance
When assessing the state of the art of unmanned aerial systems, it’s critical to be very clear about what various aircraft can and can’t do – and could never do.
Space Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron was “re-designated” on April 13 as the “18th Space Defense Squadron,” but will remain SPACECOM’s key provider of space domain awareness.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Cybersecurity must be built into system design, and the human defender should be included early on in cyber defense engineering and programmatic priorities for both system usability and training,” according to the Pentagon’s chief tester.
By Jaspreet Gill
“If there’s one thing DoD and industry have done, it’s try a whole bunch of different tools over the last 10 to 12 years. What we have to do now is string them all together to show which ones work best for the capabilities the Army needs today and divest the ones that they don’t need,” Peraton VP Jennifer Napper said.
By Brad D. Williams
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“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.
By Barry Rosenberg
The two new supercomputers, according to the company, will provide DoD with a combined total of over 365,000 cores, more than 775 terabytes of memory, and a total of 47 petabytes of high-performance storage.
By Brad D. Williams
The space rush will result in tens of thousands of new assets launched within the decade, which will create a “truly enormous” cyber attack surface, said Sam Visner, a technical fellow at the MITRE Corporation.
By Brad D. Williams
Being able to provide space domain awareness about the cislunar environment is one mission for which robust AI/ML capabilities will be critical, said Lt. Gen. John Shaw.
By Theresa Hitchens
