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Lockheed Seeks Commercial Tie-Ups to Chase 5G Work
CEO Taiclet wants a leading role as U.S. and allied militaries build out their next-gen mobile networks.
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Can AI Detect Disinformation? A New Special Operations Program May Find Out
Air Force, U.S. Special Operations Command fund year-long effort to train a neural net to rank credibility and sort news from misinformation.
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Inside the Army’s Fearless, Messy, Networked Warfare Experiment
Big steps reveal plenty about the bigger ones to come — including the need for battlefield coders.
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Guam Becomes a Living Laboratory for Pentagon’s ‘Connect-Everything’ Experiments
US INDOPACOM and the Air Force are testing new networked warfare solutions in the region right now.
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France, Israel, S. Korea, Japan, Others Join Pentagon’s AI Partnership
13 countries took part in DoD’s two-day dialogue about the future of responsible
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The Virtual Tools That Built the Air Force’s New Fighter Prototype
“Digital twinning” is coming to a battlefield near you.
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The Air Force’s ‘Connect Everything’ Project Just Had a Big Success
The simulated cruise missile intercept harnessed widely dispersed systems — all supervised by tablets in a flight-line hangar.
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New Pentagon Initiative Aims to Help Allies, Contractors Work Together on AI
New tools are planned to help various militaries and defense companies cooperate and interoperate on artificial intelligence.
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Pentagon, Defense Contractors Are Out Of Step On Tech Innovation, GAO Finds
The Pentagon wanted to fund ambitious research into future tech breakthroughs but contractors spend most of their money on safer bets, GAO has found.
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Microscopes Powered by Google’s AI Could Change Cancer Diagnostics
A DoD pilot program could help make artificial intelligence useful not just to researchers but to physicians.
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Can AI Solve the Rare Earths Problem? Chinese and US Researchers Think So
A research effort funded by China and the U.S. could speed up the discovery of new materials to use in electronics.
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US Navy Turns to Drones, AI to Monitor Rust
The service has hired a Google partner to apply technology that has already changed cancer treatment and road repair.
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An AI Just Beat a Human F-16 Pilot In a Dogfight — Again
In five rounds, an artificially-intelligent agent showed that it could outshoot other AI’s, and a human. So what happens next with AI in air combat?
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A Great Change is Coming
Software, AI, autonomy — these are the ultimate weapons. The Pentagon must get serious about integrating AI into everything it has for 'hyperwar.'
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The Pentagon’s AI Factory Gets a Powerful New Tool
The Joint Common Foundation aims to help the Department to standardize and secure its data and make it easier to find.
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New Intelligence-Community AI Principles Seek to Make Tools Useful — and Law-Abiding
Over the last five years, AI has grown considerably, as has public concern about its use, particularly for national security purposes.
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Ep. 70: Robotics, Esports and the future of national security
Get smart on human-machine teaming, the future of work, and why the Army has turned to video games like never before.
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How AI Will Soon Change Special Operations
A new SOCOM office is pursuing tools to understand and influence populations, clear rooms with robots, and spot new forms of jamming.
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Artificial Intelligence Outperforms Human Intel Analysts In a Key Area
A Defense Intelligence Agency experiment shows AI and humans have different risk tolerances when data is scarce.
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