Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
This Friday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on artificial intelligence, Army Futures Command's new "Software Factory," nuclear modernization funding and more.
Members of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence testified on Capitol Hill this week:
Commission tells lawmakers the Pentagon needs more 'top-down' leadership on AI, emerging technologies
Members of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence are advocating for the Pentagon's top leaders to be more involved in the military's approach to AI and emerging technologies, including through the creation of a new senior-level steering committee.
Document: NSCAI commissioners' joint testimony
Army Futures Command's new "Software Factory" will leverage a train-with-industry pipeline to address problems across the service with modern software practices:
AFC selects home for Software Factory
Army Futures Command has chosen Austin Community College District in Texas as the home for its new Software Factory, the service announced today.
The Pentagon's top civilian, in a Sept. 11 letter to the House and Senate Armed Services committees, said he had "strong concerns" with provisions in the House's fiscal year 2021 defense authorization and appropriations bills that, in his view, put the Pentagon nuclear modernization program at "unacceptable risk":
Pentagon sees 'unacceptable risk' in House nuclear provisions
Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord say they oppose House legislation that would reduce spending on nuclear weapons and re-structure the way the arsenal is funded.
The White House Office of Management and Budget is asking the Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee to scrap legislation that would establish a new project to modernize the existing Ground-based Interceptor fleet:
White House urges Senate authorization panel to reverse four missile defense provisions
The Trump administration is balking at four missile defense provisions advanced by the Senate Armed Services Committee's mark of the fiscal year 2021 defense authorization bill, asking lawmakers to reconsider a funding cut and increase to the Next Generation Interceptor and Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii programs, respectively.
The Air National Guard's "Ghost Reaper" initiative would have advanced networking and intelligence technologies -- and even achieve open-mission standards -- that the ANG's MQ-9 team hopes will prove the shift to data-centric warfare doesn't require abandoning legacy platforms:
ANG's 'Ghost Reaper' aims to transform hunter-killer RPA for JADC2 operations
The Air National Guard's MQ-9 enterprise has been quietly fighting under the radar to show the remotely piloted aircraft has utility in future operations by transforming its hunter-killer counterinsurgency capabilities to better enable joint all-domain command and control under a little-known initiative called the "Ghost Reaper," multiple sources tell Inside Defense.