DIU's EUCOM lead says Ukraine has speed, risk tolerance that DOD lacks

By Theresa Maher / August 7, 2024 at 7:16 PM
The Ukrainian military has the emerging technologies the Pentagon has been scrambling to field at the scale it desires, and the difference is risk tolerance, according to the Defense Innovation Unit's lead at U.S. European Command. “The technologies are there. Out of necessity, [the Ukrainian military is] using autonomous systems, counter-UAS, AI, cyber -- just on a scale and level that we just can’t compete with,” Glenn McCartan, DIU’s representative to EUCOM, said during the National Defense Industrial Association’s annual...

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