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Northrop Grumman have revealed a major part of their solution to the US Army’s Improved Threat Detection System (ITDS) programme.
Sometime next year, the Royal Canadian Navy will take delivery of its first of two new Joint Support Ships, HMCS Protecteur. The project is about a billion Canadian dollars over its anticipated cost and a decade late. Moreover, the ships that the Protecteur and its companion will replace have long retired. The problematic programmatics of these joint support ships belie the vital role they will play for the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Armed Forces.
It could be a boat anchor that kicks off the invasion of Taiwan, not a bullet. The thousands of miles of sub-sea cables are what make everything function — not just in Taiwan — and it’s clear to any invading force that owning this is key to winning any proposed invasion. That prospect has never been easier. Having something banal like a “fisherman” turn off the connection for a second is all it takes to launch an attack. That’s because the global telecommunications network is increasingly owned and maintained by entities that can be manipulated against the United States.
On Aug. 27, 1958, over the course of two weeks, the United States Navy fired three nuclear warheads into the atmosphere, intentionally detonating them to test a Cold War military theory. If it worked, it would let the military harness the Earth’s magnetic fields and weaponize them to disable any Soviet communications and tracking abilities. If it went wrong, it could destroy an American carrier group.
Operation Argus was a secretive, ambitious military project launched in 1958 following the Sputnik panic of 1957.
The commander of U.S. Cyber Command has a message for lawmakers calling for independent studies on creating a new Cyber Force: let us finish our review.
Following a proposal in last year’s annual defense policy bill that was shut down, legislative provisions passed defense committees in both houses of Congress – and one passed the full House of Representatives – that would direct independent assessments examining the prospect of a new military service focused on cyber.
The Department of the Air Force’s Chief Information Office has launched a new platform that aims to enhance transparency across the various artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities it has under development.
The online tool, dubbed CLARA, is designed to increase visibility and overall understanding of the department’s AI-related initiatives by serving as a centralized repository that provides information, progress and potential collaboration opportunities on projects, the DAF CIO noted Monday in a post on LinkedIn.
Working as an interpreter alongside U.S. forces in Afghanistan for over a decade didn’t quite prepare Ismail Haqmal for life in Texas.
“In Afghanistan, we have a very social life. We socialize a lot,” Ismail said. “It was very hard for us to come here, where life is very individualized. There were a lot of restrictions because we did not have more people to socialize with, and in the beginning, there were not a lot of Afghans around.”
He wondered if the individual lives many Americans lead took a deeper toll.
The Pentagon’s new Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer Radha Plumb has appointed multiple investigators to review and respond to reports of wrongdoing and alleged unethical conduct within the maturing AI hub, DefenseScoop has learned.
In an email obtained by the publication this week, which she sent widely to office personnel earlier in August, Plumb acknowledges that the “CDAO has experienced several adverse incidents over the past eight months.