The Pentagon has chartered a new task force to explore how machine-learning algorithms and other new technologies can leaven long-standing U.S. military gaming, exercising, modeling and simulation practices to give top brass and policymakers new ways to think about the increasingly complex set of global threats stressing the Defense Department. Acting Pentagon acquisition executive James MacStravic has commissioned a Defense Science Board panel on gaming, exercising, modeling, and simulation (GEMS) to produce, among other things, recommendations on how the U.S...
