On the heels of an award to OpenAI for “frontier AI” projects, the Defense Department’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) announced Monday that it has added three additional tech giants to the effort, including one owned by Elon Musk.
Anthropic, Google and xAI will join OpenAI on the CDAO’s nascent effort to partner with industry on pioneering artificial intelligence projects focused on national security applications.
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The Defense Department has started reviewing applications from personnel seeking financial compensation for brain health issues associated with the phenomenon known as Havana Syndrome, according to the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson.
The term Havana Syndrome was coined after people working at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba’s capital city in 2016 reported a sudden onset of symptoms that had no obvious cause, including vertigo, imbalance, blurry vision, tinnitus, headache, hearing loss, nausea and cognitive dysfunction.
Bombing Europe in World War II was one of the most war’s dangerous jobs. Professor Thomas Childers of the University of Pennsylvania says being a British or American bomber pilot flying against Germany was the most dangerous role of the war, worse than submariner, merchant mariner, or infantryman.
It’s easy to see why, with B-17 and other bomb crews being forced to fly thousands of miles across flak-filled skies while being hunted by pursuit planes. For most of World War II, the bombers didn’t even have fighter support for the majority of their bombing runs.
So long, you unsung heroes who cleaned everyone’s shit, out there in the shit.
In the name of transformation, by October, the Army will have reclassified active duty soldiers tasked with setting up mobile shower and laundry services in the field.
Could this small state’s collaborative approach to defense planning be the future for countries seeking asymmetric advantages? Ryan traveled to northeastern Europe to sit down with Uģis Norītis, Latvia’s undersecretary of state for planning at its Ministry of Defence, to discuss how Latvia is growing its defense industry and industrial base.
French President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled a strategy to accelerate defence expenditure, committing to double the military budget by 2027.
Singapore’s Mindef has completed its probe into the malfunction that affected a Leopard 2SG main battle tank (L2SG) on 5 July.
No one knows what a change of command is until they’re sweating through their bra and Googling “is a dress with pockets disrespectful.”
No one ever says what the event actually is. The invite said “ceremony.” The group chat said, “Optional but recommended.” Your partner said, “You don’t have to go.” Which, obviously, meant you had to go.
So now you’re standing outside in full sun, surrounded by people who seem to know when to stand, where to sit, and how to clap with military-appropriate enthusiasm.
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Hundreds of Guardians are taking part in the Space Force’s Resolute Space 25, meant to test readiness for space-based combat
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The Air Force kicked off a bomber task force deployment to Guam coinciding with a large-scale USAF