Author: Michael

The final text of the conference-negotiated fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act would leave it to the head of the Pentagon to determine whether the department should create a new center of excellence focused on AI-enabled weapon systems.
An amendment to a Senate version of the annual defense authorization bill put forth a few months ago would have required the DOD to establish such an organization, but the version of the NDAA hammered out by members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees and released Saturday night does not.

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YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — At a troop engagement with hundreds of sailors on the recently docked USS George Washington in Japan on Monday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin emphasized the gravity of their fresh deployment, and how the technological capabilities they are bringing to bear there mark major tenets in the U.S. military’s plan to deter Chinese aggression around the Indo-Pacific region in the near term.

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