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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in May 2021. It has been edited for republication. There are a lot of fanciful and ridiculous depictions of intelligence officers and operations to be found in the realm of fiction — let us dispense with that caveat from the outset. Be that as it may, there are […]
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Volcano Anti-Tank Mine System

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The State Department announced this week that it has approved the sale of $180 million worth of arms for Taiwan pending Congressional approval. The order is mostly comprised of Volcano anti-tank systems. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry has said that the sale should take approximately a month to complete and that the volcano mine systems would increase the country’s “asymmetric warfare” capabilities.

The German guards seemed more on edge. Maybe Allied troops were somewhere beyond his line of vision, coming closer.
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In 2022 — its first full year of existence — the Defense Department’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) sorted out how the teams that comprise it will collectively operate, staffed up and established a “hierarchy of needs” to guide members’ work in the near term.
Four predecessor organizations in the DOD — the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), Defense Digital Service (DDS), Office of the Chief Data Officer, and the Advana program — were combined to form the CDAO, which was announced in late 2021 and reached full operating capability this year.

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in July 2021. It has been edited for republication. Since Operation Neptune’s Spear, the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, the American public and the world at large is quite familiar with the U.S. Navy’s SEAL teams. An avalanche of books, television shows, podcasts, and even […]
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The global UGV market is forecasted to demonstrate decent growth over the next decade, although the platforms are less influential than their ubiquitous aerial cousins. Gordon Arthur reports.
Uncrewed ground vehicles (UGV) have been around a long time, but their somewhat limited use on battlefields has seen them lagging behind uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV) in terms of the limelight and utility.
This is clearly demonstrated in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. While UAVs like the Turkish-built Bayraktar TB2 are proving deadly, very few UGVs can be seen.

Jared Gans, The Hill
Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking to boost military cooperation with…

Mark Pomerleau, DefenseScoop
Four organizations were recently awarded contracts for the Signature Management using Operational Knowledge and Environments program overseen by the Defense…

Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg
An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia had confirmed that it was holding more than 3,000 prisoners of war.

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