January 26, 2022 | International, Aerospace, Naval, Land, C4ISR, Security
Department of Defense labs face $5 billion infrastructure shortfall
The Pentagon's innovation steering group will brief Congress this month on the details of the funding gap.
March 15, 2021 | International, Aerospace, Security
UAE and Israeli firms to collaborate on counter-drone system
The bilateral cooperation comes in the wake of the Abraham Accords signed Sept. 15 between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, highlighting a new era of diplomatic relations and potential defense agreements between the two countries.
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April 26, 2021 | International, Aerospace
Invitée de la matinale de BFM Business, la ministre des Armées, Florence Parly, évoque la militarisation de l’espace
Au préalable, la ministre des Armées, Florence Parly, a rappelé l'importance prise par l'espace pour notre défense nationale. Elle ne souhaite pas qu'il devienne un « véritable Far West ». Cette inquiétude justifie la politique volontariste engagée depuis 2017 avec la création en 2019 d'un Commandement de l'espace. Elle est également revenue sur l'arsenalisation de l'espace, la multiplication des débris, les capacités adverses développées visant à gêner, neutraliser ou détruire nos capacités spatiales. Face à la saturation de l'espace, le gouvernement entend « promouvoir des règles internationales de comportement responsable dans l'espace ». bfmtv.com, 22 avril
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September 7, 2018 | International, C4ISR
Fully autonomous ‘mobile intelligent entities’ coming to the battlefields of the future
By: Kelsey Atherton WASHINGTON — A killer robot by any other name is far more palatable to the general public. That may be part of the logic behind the Army Research Laboratory Chief Scientist Alexander Kott's decision to refer to thinking and moving machines on the battlefield as “mobile intelligent entities.” Kott pitched the term, along with the new ARL concept of fully autonomous maneuver, at the 2nd Annual Defense News Conference yesterday, in an panel on artificial intelligence that kept circling back to underlying questions of great power competition. “Fully autonomous maneuver is an ambitious, heretical terminology,” Kott said. “Fully autonomous is more than just mobility, it's about decision making.” If there is a canon against which this autonomy seems heretical, it is likely the international community's recent conference and negotiations over how, exactly, to permit or restrict lethal autonomous weapon systems. The most recent meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems took place last week in Geneva, Switzerland and concluded with a draft of recommendations on Aug. 31st. This diplomatic process, and the potential verdict of international law, could check or halt the development of AI-enabled weapons, especially ones where machines select and attack targets without human interventions. That's the principle objection raised by humanitarian groups like the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, as well as the nations that called for a preemptive ban on such autonomous weapons. Kott understands the ethical concern, drawing an analogy to the moral concerns and tradeoffs in developing self driving cars. “All know about self driving cars, all the angst, the issue of mobility... take all this concern and multiply it by orders of magnitude and now you have the issues of mobility on the battlefield,” said Kott. “Mobile intelligent entities on the battlefield have to deal with a much more unstructured, much less orderly environment than what self-driving cars have to do. This is a dramatically different world of urban rubble and broken vehicles, and all kind of dangers, in which we are putting a lot of effort.” Full article: https://www.defensenews.com/smr/defense-news-conference/2018/09/06/fully-autonomous-maneuver-coming-to-the-battlefields-of-the-future