January 14, 2022 | International, Aerospace, Naval, Land, C4ISR, Security
April 9, 2021 | International, C4ISR
L’intelligence artificielle susceptible de bouleverser les affrontements à venir
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L'intelligence artificielle susceptible de bouleverser les affrontements à venir
La Commission américaine à la sécurité nationale pour l'intelligence artificielle (NSCAI) a publié début mars un rapport alertant sur le possible bouleversement des conflits à venir sous l'effet du développement de l'intelligence artificielle. Des transformations qui pourraient notamment structurer l'affrontement stratégique entre les États-Unis et la Chine. Les auteurs du rapport, dont l'ancien dirigeant de Google Eric Schmidt, plaident pour l'adoption dès 2021 d'un plan de 40 milliards de dollars, afin de maintenir l'avantage technologique et stratégique des États-Unis. Les capacités américaines d'IA devraient être prêtes dès 2025, recommandent-ils. Dans sa stratégie pour l'intelligence artificielle de 2019, le ministère français des Armées identifiait aussi l'enjeu lié à l'intelligence artificielle : « L'IA peut constituer un agent déstabilisateur des équilibres établis en favorisant la compétition en matière d'armement, susceptible d'aboutir à des ruptures technologiques ou au nivellement des positions stratégiques », prévenait le ministère.
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August 17, 2020 | International, Aerospace, Naval, Land, C4ISR, Security
New Pentagon tech chief to focus on improving project coordination
By: Andrew Eversden   WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's new acting research chief wants to provide the department's vast research and development enterprise with a “north star road map” amid an effort to adopt emerging technologies ahead of adversaries. Speaking on a webinar hosted by Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, newly installed acting Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Kratsios said that he will focus on providing top-level guidance to the host of organizations that make up the Defense Department's R&D efforts. Those organizations include the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and service laboratories. Kratsios said a team of principal directors are working to establish road maps for individual technologies. “To me, what's critical is that R&E can serve as a place where we can sort of adjudicate disagreements between individual organizations, make sure they're working on these that complement each other, making sure that similar research isn't being done at multiple different labs,” Kratsios said Thursday in his first public speech since taking over the office from Michael Griffin, who left the position in July. The Pentagon's R&E team has laid out several modernization priorities that include emerging technologies, including advancements in hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, 5G network connectivity and cyberspace. As different components across the department advance the maturity of these technologies, Kratsios said, his office will ensure modernization areas are not siloed. “The way that we succeed and provide the best tools for the war fighter is understanding that these technologies are going to interact with one another,” Kratsios said. “Even when, for example, you want to launch a hypersonic missile, that requires so much other important technology that all needs to be done and working together in concert. So for me, it's really building those relationships between those individual modernization priorities and making sure they don't remain stovepiped.” Kratsios still serves as the U.S. chief technology officer at the White House, a position he's held since August 2019. He has advised President Donald Trump on technology issues since early 2017. In that experience, Kratsios said, he's learned about the importance of looking across R&D efforts throughout the federal government, pointing to the research done by the National Science Foundation or the Energy Department on artificial intelligence as examples. “What I've learned is that in order to get the most out of the federal government's technology ecosystem to drive innovation ... you need to be better coordinated across all aspects of the ecosystem,” Kratsios said. https://www.defensenews.com/battlefield-tech/it-networks/2020/08/13/new-pentagon-tech-chief-to-focus-on-improving-project-coordination/
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July 8, 2021 | International, Aerospace
The quiet supersonic airplane that could let you fly faster than ever
With the X-59, NASA and Lockheed Martin want to do the seemingly impossible -- build a jet that flies faster than the speed of sound, without the explosive boom.