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The Inventor of the Taser and the Body Cam Wants to Put Them on Drones
His pitch: non-lethal, robotically deployed Tasers can change the face of war.
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Pentagon’s Top Science Official Adds to Tech-Breakthrough Wishlist
Heidi Shyu, R&D undersecretary, said she went looking for tech areas to trim—and found that some vital ones had been overlooked.
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How Well Can AI Pick Targets From Satellite Photos? Army Test Aims to Find Out
The Scarlet Dragon exercise is evaluating ways the service might put new tools to use in the very near term.
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An Army Pilot Just Re-Invented Flight Training for the Digital Era
By teaching an AI to read instruments with a camera, you get the best of the human and machine worlds.
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Users Can’t Be Afterthoughts in the Pentagon’s AI Efforts
The troops, commanders, and civilians who will use artificial-intelligence tools have vital roles to play in creating, training, and improving them.
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Vulnerabilities May Slow Air Force’s Adoption of Artificial Intelligence
More data on the battlefield means a wider attack surface, something the Defense Department has yet to prepare for, experts say.
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Learn to Use Data or Risk Dying in Battle, New Army Project Teaches
Project Ridgway pushes soldiers to use—and even create—the artificial-intelligence tools that will confer military advantage.
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Pull US AI Research Out of China
International scientific collaboration is a great thing, but not when it is fueling a despotic superpower’s oppression at home and belligerence abroad.
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AI Gives ‘Days of Advanced’ Warning in Recent NORTHCOM Networked Warfare Experiment
A new test of information dominance concepts shows how rapid data sharing can accelerate warfare.
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How AI Is Revealing the Secrets of Iran’s Nascent Centrifuge Factory
Satellites can’t directly observe the underground facility, but analysis of its surroundings yields a progress report.
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SOCOM Members Got an All-Star Crash Course in AI
Over a unique six-week course, participants met virtually with tech leaders to talk about AI's future.
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Researchers Create Drone Swarms That Can Detect Gas Leaks, Other Threats
A new algorithm called “Sniffy Bug” shows how tiny drones will do dangerous work even in areas where they can’t use GPS.
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SecDef Teases New Deterrence Strategy, Vows Billions More for AI
In pursuit of "integrated deterrence," Lloyd Austin committed $1.5 billion over five years to the Pentagon’s artificial intelligence hub.
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Sullivan: Data Privacy Key To AI Race Against China
New privacy-protecting technologies will enable democracies to work together to win the AI race against China, says Biden’s national security advisor.
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China’s Aggressive Data Push Worries Military Intel Officials
The AI future runs on data and the Chinese government is out for all it can get.
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How We Get to Captain America-level Battle Speeds
We are on the verge of Hollywood-level fast, but the service branches need cultural change and cooperation for it to work.
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How JEDI’s Ghost Will Bring Bitter Rivals Together
The death of the Pentagon’s controversial cloud computing mega-contract likely puts Amazon and Microsoft in a new sort of partnership.
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New Laws Are ‘Probably Needed’ to Force US Firms to Patch Known Cyber Vulnerabilities, NSA Official Says
Too many firms are shying away from replacing old gear that is only getting easier for criminals to attack
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