12 février 2024 | International, Naval
Rebellion to supply software for Navy’s secretive Project Overmatch
Project Overmatch is the Navy’s clandestine contribution to Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or CJADC2.
12 novembre 2018 | International, C4ISR
SUE GORDON, THE principal deputy director of national intelligence, wakes up every day at 3 am, jumps on a Peloton, and reads up on all the ways the world is trying to destroy the United States. By the afternoon, she has usually visited the Oval Office and met with the heads of the 17 intelligence agencies to get threat reports. The self-described “chief operating officer of the intelligence community” has a lot to worry about, but the nearly-30-year veteran is generally optimistic about America's future. Now, she says, she just needs Silicon Valley to realize that tech and government don't have to be opposed.
On a recent trip to Silicon Valley, Gordon sat down with WIRED to talk about how much government needs Silicon Valley to join the fight to keep the US safe. She was in town to speak at conference at Stanford, but also to convince tech industry leaders industry that despite increasing employee concerns, the government and tech have a lot of shared goals.
“I had a meeting with Google where my opening bid was: ‘We're in the same business'. And they're like ‘What?' And I said: ‘Using information for good,'” Gordon says.
That's a hard sell in Silicon Valley, especially in the post-Snowden years. After Snowden's leaks, tech companies and tech workers didn't want to be seen as complicit with a government that spied on its own people—a fact Gordon disputes, saying that any collection of citizen's information was incidental and purged by their systems. This led to a much-publicized disconnect between the two power centers, one that has only grown more entrenched and public in 2018, as Silicon Valley has undergone something of an ethical awakening.
Gordon agrees with and supports a broader awareness that technology can be abused, but came to Silicon Valley to explain why government and tech should solve those problems hand in hand.
Gordon knows from public-private partnerships. The CIA's venture capital accelerator In-Q-Tel—which for nearly 20 years has invested in everything from malware-detection software to biochemical sensors to micro-batteries—was Gordon's idea. Groundbreaking at its conception, In-Q-Tel directly funds startups that could be of interest to national security, without limits on how that money can be used, and without owning the intellectual property. Among other successful investments, In-Q-Tel backed a company called Keyhole, which Google would go on to acquire and turn into Google Earth.
Full article: https://www.wired.com/story/sue-gordon-us-intelligence-public-private-google-amazon
12 février 2024 | International, Naval
Project Overmatch is the Navy’s clandestine contribution to Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or CJADC2.
9 mai 2024 | International, Naval
11 mars 2022 | International, Aérospatial, Naval, Terrestre, C4ISR, Sécurité
Nathalie Loiseau, présidente de la sous-commission Sécurité et Défense du Parlement européen, accorde une interview aux Echos. Face à la guerre en Ukraine, elle exhorte à ne pas différer l'adoption par les Vingt-Sept de la « boussole stratégique », le document qui consigne la nouvelle doctrine de défense et de sécurité de l'Union européenne. Elle observe que le conflit actuel « doit nous inciter à regarder [les] insuffisances militaires » de l'UE. « Ce conflit démontre le long sous-investissement, au moins depuis la crise financière de 2008, de certains Etats membres, comme l'Allemagne, qui maintenant s'engagent à rattraper le temps perdu ». « Il faut nous inscrire dans une logique de progression et d'intégration de la base industrielle et technologique de la défense européenne, développer des projets ensemble pour mutualiser les efforts, éviter le gaspillage, réaliser des économies d'échelle ». Nathalie Loiseau regrette « qu'on n'ait pas doté le Fonds européen de défense des 13 Md€ visés au départ pour en rester à 8 ». Les Echos du 10 mars