"This is a fundamental roles and missions question, and DoD needs to clearly designate a lead service and compel the other services to follow that lead," says Todd Harrison, space and budget expert at the Center for Strategic and International Security.
"I think Skynet is out," he said with a sigh and a grin, "as much as I would love doing that as a sci-fi thing. I just don't think we can go there."
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
"If the Joint Force can just get a taste of what this will be like on the battlefield, it will be the most addictive drug that has ever been made for warfare," Will Roper said of the Advanced Battle Management System.
JADC2 is a way for the individual service C2 networks to "all have the same networking infrastructure to talk to one another," says SDA Director Derek Tournear.
Today, "we have Navy-only systems," said Vice Adm. Lewis, "which is really frustrating" -- in fact, it's "asinine."
Once touted by President Trump himself as an alternative to the F-35, the souped-up Super Hornet is now firmly established as its partner.
Zero Trust is the Pentagon’s foundation for its modern cybersecurity strategy.
WASHINGTON: China or Russia could all too easily detect and destroy US Army missile defenses, exposing American forces to devastating attack, a forthcoming study finds. Patriot and THAAD units are big groups of big objects — launchers, radars, command posts — that emit lots of heat and radio/radar waves, are hard to camouflage, and can’t […]
In less than three years, Northern Command has witnessed an important strategic shift. North Korea’s leadership changed and the acceleration of their nuclear weapons and missiles program are changing the strategic calculus for the United States and Canada. Meanwhile, the re-launch of Russia under President Putin has Russia’s presence felt in the Middle East, Asia […]