December 8, 2023

Interfax-Ukraine: NACP launches open database of foreign components in Russian and Iranian weapons

Interfax-Ukraine: NACP launches open database of foreign components in Russian and Iranian weapons. “The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) is launching the world’s first open database of foreign components used by the Russian Federation and Iran in unmanned aerial vehicles, missiles, electronic warfare systems and other types of weapons and military equipment, the NACP website reported.” The site is available in Ukrainian, English, and Russian.

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November 27, 2023

University of Arkansas Little Rock: UA Little Rock Receives $5 Million From U.S. Army To Combat Adversarial Information Campaigns

University of Arkansas Little Rock: UA Little Rock Receives $5 Million From U.S. Army To Combat Adversarial Information Campaigns. “The project, set to run through 2025, aims to identify research gaps in deviant socio-technical behaviors, shape an agenda focused on developing strategies that can counter emerging threats, and create tools for near real-time analysis of such threats.”

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November 27, 2023

Associated Press: Pentagon’s AI initiatives accelerate hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons

Associated Press: Pentagon’s AI initiatives accelerate hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons. “Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones in special operations forces’ missions and helped Ukraine in its war against Russia. It tracks soldiers’ fitness, predicts when Air Force planes need maintenance and helps keep tabs on rivals in space. Now, the Pentagon is intent on fielding multiple thousands of relatively inexpensive, expendable AI-enabled autonomous vehicles by 2026 to keep pace with China.”

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October 11, 2023

Defense News: Army at work on a digital ‘blue book’ app, top enlisted soldier says

Defense News: Army at work on a digital ‘blue book’ app, top enlisted soldier says. “According to [Sergeant Major of the Army Michael] Weimer, the blue book app will be a one-stop shop for Army enlisted leaders who want to know “what right looks like.” It will include Army and unit history information, philosophical references like values and creeds, up-to-date information on standards and discipline, clearly defined leader responsibilities, and a digital library containing the service’s most commonly referenced regulations and other publications.”

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September 18, 2023

Bovington: Tank museum videos become global social media hit (BBC)

BBC: Bovington: Tank museum videos become global social media hit. “A museum tucked away in rural Dorset has described how tank enthusiasts from around the world have made it an unlikely YouTube success. The Tank Museum in Bovington has more than 100 million views on its channel. This means it reaches a greater audience on the video sharing platform than the likes of the Louvre in Paris and the Met in New York.”

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September 12, 2023

PBS News Hour: Elon Musk’s refusal to provide Starlink support for Ukraine attack in Crimea raises questions for Pentagon

PBS News Hour: Elon Musk’s refusal to provide Starlink support for Ukraine attack in Crimea raises questions for Pentagon. “SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s refusal to allow Ukraine to use Starlink internet services to launch a surprise attack on Russian forces in Crimea last September has raised questions as to whether the U.S. military needs to be more explicit in future contracts that services or products it purchases could be used in war, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Monday.”

Tweaks & Updates 0
August 8, 2023

FedScoop: State Department shutters AI-based project that aimed to forecast violence and COVID-19

FedScoop: State Department shutters AI-based project that aimed to forecast violence and COVID-19. “The State Department is no longer pursuing an artificial intelligence project that aimed to ‘test the statistical relationship between social media activity overseas and activity by violent extremist organizations,’ an agency spokesperson told FedScoop. The shuttered pilot is one of several initiatives disclosed in the agency’s AI use case inventory and is still listed on the State Department website.”

Research & Opinion 0
July 29, 2023

Washington Post: The war in Ukraine is spurring a revolution in drone warfare using AI

Washington Post: The war in Ukraine is spurring a revolution in drone warfare using AI. “The design and software innovations, as well as mass dissemination of piloting know-how, are also likely to influence the way drones are used far beyond the war in Ukraine, with serious implications for governments confronting separatist militias, drug cartels and extremist groups seeking to gain a technological edge.”

Research & Opinion 0
July 29, 2023

WIRED: The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here

WIRED: The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here. “Autonomous systems with the capacity to kill already exist around the globe. In any major conflict, even one well short of World War III, each side will soon face the temptation not only to arm these systems but, in some situations, to remove human oversight, freeing the machines to fight at machine speed. In this war of AI against AI, only humans will die. So it is reasonable to wonder: How do these machines, and the people who build them, think?”

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July 22, 2023

Homeland Security Today: IARPA Launches Effort to Develop Photorealistic Site Models

Homeland Security Today: IARPA Launches Effort to Develop Photorealistic Site Models. “The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) — the advanced research and development arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — today launched a new program to research and develop technology that can build photorealistic virtual models using satellite, ground-level, and other available imagery.”

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June 3, 2023

Ars Technica: Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator

Ars Technica: Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator. “Over the past 24 hours, several news outlets reported a now-retracted story claiming that the US Air Force had run a simulation in which an AI-controlled drone ‘went rogue’ and ‘killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.’ The US Air Force has denied that any simulation ever took place, and the original source of the story says he ‘misspoke.’”

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May 31, 2023

Bloomberg: Ukraine War May Become a Proving Ground for AI

Bloomberg: Ukraine War May Become a Proving Ground for AI. “Artificial intelligence is, suddenly, everywhere. We are awash in ideas about how we can use AI productively — from agriculture to climate change to engineering to software construction. And, equally, there are plenty of cautionary notes being struck about using AI to control societies, manipulate economies, defeat commercial opponents, and generally fulfill Arthur C. Clarke’s visions of machines dominating man in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Thus far, however, relatively little has been written about the implications of AI on warfare and geopolitics.”

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