DOD calls on DSB for new strategic counter-autonomy assessment -- again

By Jason Sherman / June 22, 2018 at 4:16 PM
The Pentagon's weapons technology chief has commissioned a high-level advisory panel to conduct a strategic assessment of U.S. counter-autonomy capabilities, a one-year study to explore the potential for disruption across the military enterprise caused by advances in artificial intelligence and global technology proliferation. Michael Griffin, under secretary of defense for research and engineering, has directed the Defense Science Board to form a task force on counter autonomy to assess the threat to U.S. forces, gaps in U.S. military capabilities, implications...

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