With AI hype outrunning reality, DoD AI chief Craig Martell told lawmakers his office is "building what we're calling a maturity model" to assess what generative AI really can and cannot do.
James Cartlidge also described a tweak to the acquisition process for high-tech platforms that allow military tech experts to play "failsafe watchdog."
‘Store Now, Decrypt Later’ attacks must be thwarted now with Zero Trust cybersecurity.
Because it needs much less electricity per computation than current chips, the new hardware could take AI out of big data centers and onto drones, robots, and other small platforms at the “tactical edge.”
Boeing acquired Germantown, Md.-based Digital Receiver Technology Inc. in 2008, when the aerospace giant was seeking to expand its presence in the intelligence sector.
Customers and employees are experiencing the 'Butterfly Effect' of digital transformation from key national security programs.
"Delivering greater access, clarity, and confidence to commercial companies would dramatically improve companies’ ability to participate in the federal market, and thereby significantly strengthen America’s defense readiness," write Jeff Decker and Noah Sheinbaum in this op-ed.
The US government hopes this will be the first of many annual meetings of the countries that signed on to the US “Political Declaration” on military AI last year, sharing model policies and best practices on everything from combat robots to back-office algorithms.
Plumb, the current deputy under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, has held high-powered jobs from Google to the National Security Council.
“I love AI. I want lots of AI,” Dave McKeown told Breaking Defense. But, so far, neither government nor industry has developed artificial intelligence that can really help with cybersecurity.
A Breaking Defense webinar with experts from CDAO, APL, and CNAS gets into the question of defining artificial intelligence vs machine learning.
The US Army chief, Gen. Randy George, offered an intriguing possible win for AUKUS Pillar 2: "a common controller" for unmanned systems, allowing the three allies to exchange systems.
In our latest eBook we're bringing you the collection of stories covering Navy's expansion of unmanned capabilities, call for a culture of shared cyber responsibility, reflecting on shipbuilding priorities and much more.
Breaking Defense has you covered for all the news of the Pentagon's fiscal 2025 budget rollout, and this handy landing page of our stories will get you where you need to go.
“We kind of depend on having [that] ‘24 bill finish and finish in a way that looks a lot like what we asked for. Otherwise, we're going to have to go back to the drawing board on a couple of fronts,” said a senior defense official.