After exploring a Pacific-war scenario with cybersecurity executives from 14 tech firms, the Army wants to fast-track new AI tools — and thrash out new policy to allow more autonomy for AI “agents.”
Two AI experts propose a new way to train artificial intelligence for warfighters.
The Defense Department has made agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Reflection, according to an announcement this morning, with an eighth, Oracle, added just hours later.
A Google Gemini tool on GenAI.mil allows Defense Department personnel to create their own AI agents to handle data and automate online tasks.
“As we start fleshing out these concepts, what we start to understand is that … something that is a really great capability over in EUCOM or CENTCOM right now may not translate over to the Pacific, where the distances are way, way greater,” Rear Adm. Douglas Sasse told the Sea-Air-Space conference.
“While the aircraft was flying, the software was queued up so that we could have different companies’ behaviors take control of the platform and fly [it]," said Dan Salluce, Northrop’s senior director for aerospace systems.
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“I want you to move like somebody’s on your heels, and they’re about ready to eat you,” the Defense Intelligence Agency’s chief AI officer, Maj. Gen. Robert Kinney, tells his team.
The K1000ULE broke endurance records with a three-day flight and has featured in multiple military exercises. “We’ve proven ourselves to the warfighter across multiple AORs,” Kraus Hamdani CEO Fatema Hamdani told Breaking Defense.
The capability, dubbed Joint Cyber Hunt Kit, will provide defensive cyber warriors at US Cyber Command standardized kits to conduct hunt missions for the first time, Parsons President of Defense and Intelligence Mike Kushin told Breaking Defense.
"The record strongly suggests that the reasons given for designating Anthropic a supply chain risk were pretextual and that [the government’s] real motive was unlawful retaliation," said Judge Rita Lin.
Using its Enhanced Use Lease authority, the Army wants private industry to finance and run large data centers on underused land at Fort Bliss and Dugway Proving Ground.
Despite the absence of customers, the companies are hoping that the demonstration could tempt European air forces looking for cUAS solutions that can reduce reliance on crewed aircraft.
“Anthropic’s got a strong case, stronger than it should … primarily because the President’s made ‘admissions against interest’” on social media, attorney Sean Timmons told Breaking Defense.