“We demonstrated… that having that person in the loop is not a huge time sink,” AITF director Doug Matty told me. “By presenting the right information at the appropriate level of confidence, it actually accelerated the mission.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.New Army mounted system won’t play favorites when it comes to C5ISR, EW and A-PNT
The CMOSS Mounted Form Factor will facilitate tech insertion for new capabilities while co-existing with the Mounted Family of Computer Systems.
Artificial intelligence can’t prepare an in-depth assessment of de-escalation options or build relationships with foreign allies who have sources Americans don’t, said the Army’s deputy chief of staff for intel.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. Deploying data scientists alongside special ops troops lets them solve intelligence-sharing problems “in minutes or hours,” said Special Operations Command’s first-ever CTO.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
In an unusual bottom-up initiative, the 18th Airborne Corps is developing its own AI targeting system – and the corps’ fire support coordinator says he wouldn’t go to war without it.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
In new simulations, Gen. Paul Funk says, “we’re trying to replicate downtown Baghdad to the window, to the door knob.” How do you simplify masses of data so soldiers can use it for practical training?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. “This is not a panacea,” the deputy director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center says. “You can’t just sprinkle AI on all these legacy systems and expect them to work and talk together….That’s not how it works.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
A single Army command, HRC, tracks more than 800,000 data elements, the service’s new Chief Data Officer says. If you try to share all your data without setting clear priorities, the network will choke on it – especially in frontline units, where getting the right data can be life or death.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
A major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
“There’s still a lot of folks who believe that, ‘oh, somebody’s going to bring a big box of AI and set it on my desk,’” Lt. Gen. Mike Groen, director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, says. “This is not some black box. This is about your insight into the battlefield.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Today’s huge HQs are slow-moving “rocket magnets” that can’t keep up in 21st century combat, the director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center told us in an exclusive interview. To survive and win, Lt. Gen. Mike Groen said, the military must replace cumbersome manual processes with AI.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“To make AI our military’s future, it must become our military’s present,” says Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, in this exclusive op-ed for Breaking Defense.
By Michael Groen
“There’s going to be winners and losers,” Gen. Ed Daly told us. “[But] this transition… is not code for ‘reducing the workforce.’”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
In future wars, AI, networks, and analytics won’t just help target precision weapons: They can also liberate combat units from long and vulnerable supply lines. But to make that work, AMC commander Gen. Ed Daly told us, frontline troops need a constant flow of data.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“We expect adversary actions directed against the homeland,” from cyber attacks to foreign-fomented protests, the new Army Installations Strategy warns. Bases in the US are no longer out of adversaries’ reach – so how do you defend them?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Artificial intelligence developed to hunt terrorists can help track Russian and Chinese targets as well – especially amidst murky, chaotic conflicts in the “grey zone” between peace and open war.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
