AI (Artificial Intelligence) in the military

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Pentagon establishes Task Force Lima to study generative AI issues

The Pentagon sought $1.8 billion for artificial intelligence in its fiscal 2024 budget request.

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Why Amazon Could Be The Next Big Defense Prime​

Podcast: Why Amazon Could Be The Next Big Defense Prime | Aviation Week Network

The differentiator in military programs is shifting from platforms to software. Listen in to hear how this change is transforming industry.

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US Army seeks industry input on AI bill of materials

An AI BOM measure is not meant to hurt companies or jeopardize sensitive IP but rather improve cybersecurity and consistency, according to Young Bang.

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3 ways DARPA aims to tame 'strategic chaos' with AI - Breaking Defense

Combat is too complicated and chaotic for existing AI to analyze, and DARPA is trying to figure out the best way to combine algorithms with human expertise.

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UK thinking:

Defence Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Our vision is that, in terms of AI, we will be the world’s most effective, efficient, trusted and influential Defence organisation for our size.

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USA thinking: https://media.defense.gov/2022/Jun/...gence-Strategy-and-Implementation-Pathway.PDF

 

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German military’s metaverse promises virtual foes with an AI punch

Researchers are developing an artificial intelligence-powered military sandbox for trying new weapons, or souping up old ones.

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‘I’m the captain now’: Pilots follow artificial intelligence instruction for attack mission

Lockheed Martin has successfully conducted an electronic attack using piloted aircraft being instructed by artificial intelligence. The American defence prime performed the Enhanced Collaborative Hig

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Defence force chief fears deepfakes and AI will expose Australia to enemies

General Angus Campbell warns the world is entering an era of "truth decay", where misinformation will harm democracy, leaving liberal, Western societies like Australia exposed to enemies.

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What new federal cybersecurity policy means for government contractors

The most controversial section calls for holding software companies liable for producing insecure code.

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AI battle labs are coming to INDOPACOM, EUCOM - Breaking Defense

"Despite the speed and impacts from BRAVO hackathons, we are still finding the time from development of capabilities, calibrations, or tactics with operational data to employment in theater to be on the order of months or years," Stuart Wagner, Air Force chief digital transformation officer and...

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Shield AI sees DoD opening for 'intelligent, affordable mass' of drones - Breaking Defense

Shield AI’s Hivemind pilot is “the Android operating system with the aircraft manufacturer,” the company’s president Brandon Tseng told Breaking Defense. “We want to work with every OEM [original equipment manufacturer], every aircraft.”

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How an AI company parsed misinformation early in Israel-Hamas war

“Anywhere there is a hot spot, our folks are looking to see what signal we can pull,” said Primer's chief executive.

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Britain unveils details on AI defense programs

One involved a beach-landing exercise, while the other looked at helicopter maintenance.

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Ethical Terminators, or how DoD learned to stop worrying and love AI: 2023 Year in Review - Breaking Defense

Over the last 11 months, the US has made major progress in defining “Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence” and even getting other nations to sign on the idea — without ever actually precluding the kind of automated “killer robots” activists want to ban.

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Transforming the military for the AI age requires 'a certain ruthlessness,' say US, UK experts - Breaking Defense

A new report from Britain’s RUSI and America’s SCSP argues only tough, politically savvy leadership can force the armed services to scrap enough existing systems to free up funds for an AI-driven revolution in warfare.

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OpenAI opens the door for military uses but maintains AI weapons ban

Despite new Pentagon collab, OpenAI won't allow customers to "develop or use weapons" with its tools.

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Researchers approach industry for air-superiority munitions technologies like artificial intelligence (AI)

This market survey is to identify potential sources able to develop state of the art solutions in 13 air munitions-related research areas.

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French AI firm to process drone footage for automatic threat detection

Paris-based Preligens wants to process video footage recorded by unmanned aerial vehicles to help spot military assets deployed by Russia and China.

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BrainChip Boosts Space Heritage with Launch of Akida into Low Earth Orbit

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 05, 2024 - BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), a leader in neuromorphic AI technology, has successfully launched its Akida AI system into low earth orbit on the Optimus-1 spacecraft. T

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AI generates high-quality images 30 times faster in a single step

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 22, 2024 - In our current age of artificial intelligence, computers can generate their own art by way of diffusion models, iteratively adding structure to a noisy initial state until a clear image or video e

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40-plus countries convening next week to thrash out 'responsible AI' for military use - Breaking Defense

The State Department hopes this will be the first of many annual meetings of the countries that signed on to the US “Political Declaration” on military AI last year, sharing model policies and best practices on everything from combat robots to back-office algorithms.

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Pentagon tested generative AI to draft supply plans in latest GIDE 9 wargame - Breaking Defense

“For certain use cases, it’s proving to have a lot of value,” said Col. Matt “Nomad” Strohmeyer. “It’s not this panacea, but it’s also not this Pandora’s box of evil. It’s somewhere in between.”

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F-16s arrive at Eglin to be modified with self-flying tech

The Air Force hopes its Venom experiments will allow it to more quickly develop self-flying drone wingmen known as CCAs.

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AI-operated fighter jet will fly Air Force secretary on test run

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Tuesday he will enter the cockpit of an F-16 that the service has converted for drone flight to see how it performs.

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Shield AI to let Hivemind software fly three more aircraft

The company has already folded the autonomous flight software into three classes of quadcopters, the V-Bat drone, the F-16 jet and the MQM-178 drone.

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AI Is Now Dogfighting With Fighter Pilots In The Air

The breakthrough in autonomous aerial combat made by the X-62 test jet is set to have far-reaching impacts well beyond dogfighting.

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US Air Force stages dogfights with AI-flown fighter jet

The Air Force hopes that teaching AI to dogfight -- perhaps the hardest flying style to master -- will make it easier to autonomously fly other missions.

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'Poisoned' data could wreck AIs in wartime, warns Army software acquisition chief - Breaking Defense

“Any commercial LLM that is out there, that is learning from the internet, is poisoned today,” Jennifer Swanson said, “but our main concern [is] those algorithms that are going to be informing battlefield decisions.”

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Satellite computer delivered to FMV for integration and space-based AI tests

Paris, France (SPX) Apr 22, 2024 - Unibap, based in Uppsala, has successfully handed over their advanced satellite computer to the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration (FMV), which will forward it to Space Inventor in Denmark for

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The Role of AI in Russia’s Confrontation with the West

Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.

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Here’s how the US Army’s multidomain task force is contributing to AUKUS

The 3rd Multidomain Task Force is collaborating with Australia and the U.K. to develop technology like artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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The robots are coming: How Ukraine became the testing ground for AI-powered combat

As autonomous drones soar toward the frontline, bigger countries like China and the U.S. are watching.

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The robots are coming: How Ukraine became the testing ground for AI-powered combat

As autonomous drones soar toward the frontline, bigger countries like China and the U.S. are watching.

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I wonder how close we are to just being able to fire tons of drone into an enemy's face and have them find the targets themselves without any control required.

 

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I wonder how close we are to just being able to fire tons of drone into an enemy's face and have them find the targets themselves without any control required.

Depends on what one would all a drone and what one considers finding a target. There have been active homing missiles finding their own targets for many, many decades. If you mean how long it will take for a UAV to visually be able to spot its own targets, I would say basically we are there now, but perhaps not in a sufficiently cost effective way to justify such a guidance system for every UAV.

But there is probably a lot more value to adding AI and target recognition to your ISR assets, and putting them somewhere more safe where they can be continually reused - either on cloud based servers or in orbit. It is clear the US has already gone down both those routes, at least experimentally. At that point, given secure communications you can offload the target data to a dramatically less capable (and costly) munition targeting system.