23 janvier 2024 | International, Terrestre
8 avril 2021 | International, Aérospatial, C4ISR
Airbus, Dassault Agreement on FCAS Project
Airbus and Dassault Aviation have proposed to the governments of France, Germany and Spain to build a demonstrator under Europe's Future Combat Air System (FCAS) project.
The two companies reached an agreement Friday that paves the way for political talks to resume among the governments, a source close to the matter told Reuters.
The FCAS program consists of a manned Next-Generation Fighter (NGF) aircraft, accompanied by drones of specialized capabilities, like reconnaissance and strike. It is envisioned as a futuristic air power weapon that will replace the Rafale and Eurofighter fleets in France and Germany beginning in 2040. A so-called combat cloud will pump command-and-control data between all program platforms, essentially creating a flying network of sensors and weapons with the NGF as its hub.
The project is expected to cost anywhere between $60 billion and $95 billion until 2040.
First floated by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron in 2017, the program has been dogged by political differences as well as corporate disagreements.
Airbus is unhappy being treated as a subcontractor while French jet maker Dassault leads the aircraft development.
“Dassault accepts that Airbus will receive a larger overall FCAS workshare but remained ready to pursue a ‘Plan B' if the talks failed,” Dassault boss Eric Trappier said last month.
Airbus is, however, spearheading the development of the drones and the "combat cloud" ultrafast communications network that will use artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
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DARPA wants an AI system that can basically make sense of everything
By: Daniel Cebul Defense Advanced Research Project Agency is looking for an artificial intelligence and machine-learning model that can help scientists and researchers push their work to new limits. The Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction (ASKE) program, announced Aug. 17, is the first contract opportunity DARPA has released as part of its new AI exploration program. The goal is to establish the feasibility of new AI concepts and do it fast ― within 18 months of award ― to help DARPA outpace global AI science and technology discovery efforts. Specifically, the ASKE opportunity is looking to develop an AI system that can rapidly aggregate scientific data over a number of complex systems (physical, biological, social) and identify new data and information resources automatically. Science depends on equations and complex computations of large data sets. The proposed AI system would be able to interpret and expose scientific knowledge and underlying assumptions in existing computational models to extract useful information, like causal relationships, correlations and parameters. This information would then be integrated into a machine-curated model that generates more robust hypotheses. To ensure the system is working with the full-breadth of scientific information available, DARPA is interested in a system that automatically verifies published scientific results and can monitor “fragile economic, political, social and environmental systems undergoing complex events,” in real-time. For such a system to be viable, DARPA believes advanced AI techniques such as “natural language processing, knowledge-based reasoning, machine learning, and/or human-machine collaboration” are needed. Although rapid and real-time aggregation of data from a variety digital sources may have military applications, for now DARPA maintains its “overriding interest is in innovative approaches to extracting knowledge from scientific models.” The winner will be awarded a contract worth as much as $1 million for a prototype. Proposals are due Sept. 17. https://www.c4isrnet.com/it-networks/2018/08/23/darpa-wants-an-ai-system-that-can-basically-make-sense-of-everything
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12 mars 2024 | International, Naval
Fincantieri and the Qatar Emiri Naval Forces: strategic alliance for naval education & training
The Group and the Qatar Emiri Naval Forces signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Doha.