DOD warned to either divest old weapons or risk losing to China

By Tony Bertuca / September 30, 2020 at 2:49 PM
Two congressmen behind a new bipartisan report urging significant defense reforms say the Pentagon can either divest legacy weapons in favor of artificial intelligence and unmanned systems, or it can lose the race for technological superiority to China. Reps. Seth Moulton (D-MA) and Jim Banks (R-IN), who co-chair the House Armed Services Committee's "Future of Defense Task Force," spoke today during a virtual Brookings Institution event about the team's new 87-page report . "This isn't a race that we might...

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