1 septembre 2017 | International, Aérospatial, Naval, Terrestre, C4ISR
PSPC Minister announced the signing of a new bilateral security arrangement with the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria. This arrangement will support trade between the two countries and contribute to international security
3 décembre 2024 | International, Aérospatial
The AI-driven personnel management system “was the equivalent of having one extra body in that department, saving them approximately 1,000 hours a year."
29 octobre 2018 | International, C4ISR
By Aaron Gregg Microsoft executives launched a spirited defense of their work with the U.S. military on Friday in a blog post written by company president Brad Smith, who pledged to work with Pentagon as it embarks on a multibillion-dollar effort to build advanced artificial intelligence capabilities into its operations. Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos offered a similar statement last week at a conference in San Francisco hosted by Wired Magazine. “If big tech companies are going to turn their back on the Department of Defense, this country is going to be in trouble,” Bezos said at the conference. (Bezos owns The Washington Post.) The two companies are responding to a broader wave of discontent that has complicated the efforts of Silicon Valley tech companies to work with the military. Search giant Google recently announced it would disallow its advanced algorithms to be used in weapons systems, and separately said it would decline to bid on a $10 billion opportunity to build the Pentagon's departmentwide cloud computing infrastructure. That contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or “JEDI” for short, is designed to give the Pentagon access to new weapons capabilities that are enabled by artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle submitted bids by the Oct. 12 deadline, company spokespeople confirmed this week, and the Defense Department is expected to award a contract next year. Amazon is seen as a front-runner because of its earlier work handling classified data for the CIA. The retorts by the executives followed a pair of anonymously written posts on the website Medium over the past month — both of which the site said had been verified by its editorial staff — in which self-described employees of Amazon and Microsoft raised concerns over the tech companies' relationship with the Defense Department. The Post could not independently verify the authenticity of the two Medium posts. A Microsoft spokeswoman said the company could not verify the Medium post's authenticity, and an Amazon spokesman did not immediately respond to requests for comment. In a blog post titled “Technology and the U.S. military” that was published Friday on Microsoft's website, Smith wrote that the company would continue to work with the U.S. military while looking for ways to ensure its technology is used responsibly. “To withdraw from this market is to reduce our opportunity to engage in the public debate about how new technologies can best be used in a responsible way,” Smith wrote. "We are not going to withdraw from the future.” Full article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/26/microsoft-amazon-pledge-work-with-pentagon-following-anonymous-online-rebukes
30 juin 2020 | International, Aérospatial
Le premier avion ravitailleur MRTT (Multi Role Tanker Transport, avion militaire de transport et de ravitaillement en français) doit s'envoler ce 30 juin pour la base militaire d'Eindhoven, aux Pays-Bas, depuis l'usine d'Airbus de Getafe, en Espagne. Sous l'égide de l'OTAN il s'agit du premier appareil sur les huit commandés dans le cadre du programme MMF (Multinational MRTT Fleet initiative, en français, l'initiative de ravitaillement en vol) réunissant six pays européens (Allemagne, Pays-Bas, Luxembourg, Belgique, Norvège et République Tchèque). Le contrat, qui lie Airbus Defence and Space et les pays initiateurs du MMF depuis 2016, prévoit la livraison des sept autres appareils d'ici 2024, avec des options portant sur trois appareils supplémentaires. L'Usine Nouvelle du 29 juin 2020