The U.S. Air Force is nearing an agreement with the B-21 Raider next generation strategic bomber’s primary contractor Northrop Grumman to accelerate the production of the aircraft, according to statements by the firm’s CEO Kathy Warden. Since its first flight in November 2023, the B-21 has moved into a low-rate initial production phase consisting of five lots, which will between them produce a total of 21 aircraft. Northrop Grumman has indicated it plans to invest between $2 billion and $3 billion over multiple years to support an increased production capacity, with the U.S.
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The Army is incorporating artificial intelligence tools to help write doctrine, the service said Wednesday.
The Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate, the Army’s hub for producing foundational publications meant to guide how soldiers operate, is training doctrine writers to “apply approved AI tools to their work immediately” — to include idea generation, according to a service press release.
The military has been aggressively applying large language models across virtually all parts of the force as Pentagon officials tout the emerging tech as a boon to operations.
…build more of what proves itself…
I know it is just a little bit more than a week after my last post on the outstanding performance of the under-appreciated Expeditionary Mobile Base (ESB)—by the way, can we get this class of ships a proper classification? We have other options.
However, they are doing the heavy lifting again in the post-Maduro takedown. Here we have U.S. forces capturing the tanker VERONICA III in the Indian Ocean. The tanker is linked to the illegal transportation of crude oil from Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.
An unprecedented flood of outrage from veterans groups, lawmakers, and individual veterans led the Department of Veterans Affairs to reverse course Thursday on a controversial regulation that would have based disability ratings on how well veterans function while medicated, instead of considering the severity of the actual condition they suffer from.
It’s a victory for veterans and advocates who mounted a quick and decisive public campaign against the policy. VA Secretary Doug Collins announced the agency would halt enforcement of the rule just two days after it took effect.
The Pentagon will adhere to existing laws and regulations associated with surveillance, security and democratic processes as it fast-tracks the military’s frontier AI adoption, but it won’t permit companies supplying the technology to determine its rules for operation, Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael told DefenseScoop.
His comments come as the Defense Department is locked in a high-stakes dispute with Anthropic about the U.S. military’s use of the startup’s Claude AI model in real-world operations.
“We want guardrails.
The Air Force has initiated a new effort to upgrade its central command-and-control systems with new capabilities, including artificial intelligence and enhanced data fusion.
The service’s software factory, known as Kessel Run, will soon kick off the Next-Generation Air Operations Center (AOC) Weapon System program to modernize command centers. According to an announcement posted Wednesday, Kessel Run expects to release the first request for information before the end of February and wants to award a contract by June 2027.
On Saturday, Air Force Maj. Johnny Cruz Buckingham plans to set a new world record for sand skiing by swooshing down a sand dune in Peru at 76 miles per hour.
“I’ll be in shorts and a T-shirt and just skiing down a big old sand dune,” Buckingham told Task & Purpose.
Buckingham has already set 17 Guinness World Records and has five other recent attempts under review. He has set world records that circled the globe (the fastest time to travel to all seven continents) and records that circled him with fire (the most flaming-knife spins on a balance board in one minute).
China’s top military leadership has been shaken by a new round of purges at the highest level, raising urgent questions about loyalty, corruption, and combat readiness. What do these removals, and especially the purge of Zhang Youxia, signal about Xi Jinping’s grip on power, the health of the People’s Liberation Army, and Beijing’s appetite for risk abroad? We are joined by four seasoned analysts of China and its military, three of whom worked at the Central Intelligence Agency, to parse these questions and more. This episode is brought to you by Onebrief.
L Todd Wood and former Special Mission Unit Commander Pete Blaber discuss the continuing lies coming out of Europe on the Ukraine conflict.
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