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• Artificial intelligence Arms Race | Wikipedia
• Op-ed: Hyperwar is coming. America needs to bring AI into the fight to win — with caution | John Allen and Darrell West - Brookings Institution
• Request for Information: Data Science in The Operations Center (OC) | Department of Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL - Rome Research Site, AFRL/Information Directorate - beta.SAM.gov ...The Air Force is interested in novel methods to develop a work bench, work flow, or ecosystem that enables rapid integration of new data for use in operations centers and brings it to bear on mission directives to improve the efficiency and accuracy of operations See OODA Loop

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Data will be the fuel and the engine for everything the Defense Department has to do to bring intelligence and operations together, DOD's chief information officer told CIOs and technology leaders from across the department in a virtual global town hall meeting.

Dana Deasy said during the Aug. 12 event that quality data that is secure will also help to enable the development of artificial intelligence. With AI, humans and machines are going to collaborate effectively and efficiently in an ethical manner, Deasy said, lauding the progress being made by the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center's work over the last 18 months. DOD Leaders Provide Digital Modernization Updates | David Vergun - DOD News

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Artificial Intelligence in Military: How will AI, Deep Learning, and Robotics Change Military Progress in artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning, and robotics allow new capabilities that will affect military strategies assertively.

Warriors Corner: Artificial Intelligence Brig. Gen. Matthew Easley, Director, Army AI Task Force

Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Technology: Implications for U.S. National Security Hudson Institute hosted a discussion on the increasing risk that rapidly emerging advanced technologies pose to U.S. national security. Competitor nations such as Russia and China have devoted significant resources to the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum information science, particularly quantum computing. A recent report from the bipartisan Commission on the National Defense Strategy for the United States warned: “U.S. superiority in key areas of innovation is decreasing or has disappeared [while] U.S. competitors are investing heavily in innovation.” Given the technologies’ enormous promise for benefiting human kind, how should Washington respond to ensure U.S. military superiority while promoting the peaceful use of AI and quantum technology?

AI for defence interview with Eric Segura at the Defence experience

What Disruptive Technologies and Artificial Intelligence Mean for NATO This video establishes a baseline understanding of disruptive technology (DT), artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomy aimed at NATO policymakers and senior military officials. It explains disruptive technology and its historical importance for military innovation and changes in warfare, in addition to the current state of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems technology. The video features experts Dr. Andrew Moore, Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Co-Chair of the CNAS Task Force on AI and National Security, and Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security Program at CNAS and Executive Director of the CNAS Task Force on AI and National Security.

Rise of the Terminators - Military Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Weapons that think for Themselves Weapons and warfare have become increasingly sophisticated; the latest battlefield technology is starting to look more like a computer game with wirelessly connected soldiers communicating via sound and vision to drones carrying satellite-linked wi-fi hotspots & given orders by commanders that could be on the of the side of the world.

The Future of War: AI + Autonomous Warfare with “Army of None” Author Paul Scharre | MIND & MACHINE Today we explore the Future of War with AI and Autonomous Weapons. August Bradley's guest is Paul Scharre, author of the book "Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War" — which Bill Gates recently featured in his top five book recommendations of the year. Paul is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security — a think tank based in Washington D.C. Previously, Paul worked for the U.S. Secretary of Defense where he played a leading role in establishing policies on unmanned autonomous systems and emerging weapons technologies. He led the Department of Defense working-group that drafted policies on autonomy in weapon systems. He also led DoD efforts to establish policies on intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance programs. We discuss the current state of military autonomous weapons, the degree to which highly autonomous warfare will be conducted in the future, and the ethical challenges facing this technology. We also get into the resistance from employees within Google and other A.I companies toward supporting military uses.

AI Weapons, War and Ethics This lecture explores the AI behind fully autonomous weapons and the arguments for and against their use in the world. A lecture by Yorick Wilks, Visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence 05 November 2019 This lecture will explore fully autonomous weapons, the products of AI technology, and the arguments for and against their use. It will then look at the more complex issues of the ethical role of the state in the protection of its population, and the ethical choices of individuals versus those of corporations, whose role in large-scale military-industrial complexes is crucial. The lecture will also mention the emergence of a form of psychopathology in some weapons producers

A.I. Is Making it Easier to Kill (You). Here’s How. | NYT A tank that drives itself. A drone that picks its own targets. A machine gun with facial recognition software. Sounds like science fiction? A.I. fueled weapons are already here.

Jay Tuck: AI - Humanity's Most Serious Challenge US defense expert Jay Tuck was news director of the daily news program ARD-Tagesthemen and combat correspondent for GermanTelevision in two Gulf Wars. He has produced over 500 segments for the network. His investigative reports on security policy, espionage activities and weapons technology appear in leading newspapers, television networks and magazines throughout Europe, including Cicero, Focus, PC-Welt, Playboy, Stern, Welt am Sonntag and ZEITmagazin. He is author of a widely acclaimed book on electronic intelligence activities, “High-Tech Espionage” (St. Martin’s Press), published in fourteen countries.

Artificial Intelligence - A Threat to Strategic Stability? In this seminar, Postdoctoral Research Fellow James Johnson explores: What is military artificial intelligence (AI) and how is it different from civilian AI? How does popular culture depict AI and what does it get wrong? The AI-cyber nexus AI “hunts for nukes” Drone swarming The promises and dangers of AI, he notes, do not exist in a vacuum. Not dissimilar from other weapons systems, AI needs only to be perceived as capable to have a destabilizing impact. He also emphasized that strategic advantages of AI-infused weapons may prove irresistible to states seeking to gain the technological upper hand over its rivals. He explores the multifaceted possible intersections of AI with nuclear weapons and suggests that AI-enhanced conventional weapons might pose one of the greatest risks to a nuclear escalation in future warfare scenarios, challenging long-held assumptions about deterrence, arms control, and crisis stability. Speaker: Dr. James Johnson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey. James holds a Ph.D. in Politics & International Relations from the University of Leicester, where he is also an honorary visiting fellow with the School of History & International Relations. Dr. Johnson has published peer-review articles with journals including the Pacific Review, Asian Security, Strategic Studies Quarterly, The Washington Quarterly, Defense & Security Analysis, The Journal of Cyber Policy, and Comparative Strategy. He is the author of The US-China Military & Defense Relationship during the Obama Presidency. His latest book, titled "Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Warfare: USA, China, and Strategic Stability", is under advanced contract with OUP/Manchester University Press. James is fluent in Mandarin.

Op-ed Hyperwar is coming. America needs to bring AI into the fight to win The United States recently sent two aircraft carrier strike groups into the South China Sea in a show of military strength. The move of multiple American warships is in reaction to China holding military exercises in international waters that are contested by Vietnam and the Philippines. The stand-off raises global tensions at a time when each superpower has developed advanced technological capabilities in terms of artificial intelligence, remote imaging, and autonomous weapons systems. It is important officials in each nation understand how emerging technologies speed up decision-making but through crisis acceleration run the risk of dangerous miscalculation. ... With the advent of AI and other emerging technologies, though, these time-honored definitions are likely to change. At a fundamental level, battle, war, and conflict are time-competitive processes. From time immemorial, humans have sought to be faster in the ultimate competition of combat, in an absolute as well as in a relative sense. And in that regard, AI will dramatically change the speed of war. It will not only enhance the human role in conflict, but will also leverage technology as never before. For not only is technology changing, the rate of that alteration is accelerating. This is the central issue before us for armed conflict, and the side that can create, master, and leverage an equilibrium between the nature of war and the character of war, especially within the new environment of AI, data analytics, and supercomputing, will inevitably prevail in conflict. In a geopolitical environment increasingly defined by new and emerging technologies, national defense stands as one of the most consequential areas of development for the 21st century. It is important to assess the revolutionary impacts of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies on nearly every facet of national security and armed conflict, including the accelerated pace of warfare and the critical role of continued human control. Ultimately, there are significant opportunities to deploy AI-based tools, as well as major rising threats that need to be considered and addressed. A variety of technologies can improve decision-making, speed, and scalability — some to a dizzying degree. All data is taken from the source: http://cnbc.com

US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

• Perspective on AI | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

DARPA OFFSET Program Calls for Second Swarm Sprints The focus of this swarm sprint is on enabling improved swarm autonomy through enhancements of swarm platforms and/or autonomy elements, with the operational backdrop of utilizing a diverse swarm of 50 air and ground robots to isolate an urban objective within an area of two square city blocks over a mission duration of 15 to 30 minutes. Swarm Sprinters will leverage existing or develop new hardware components, swarm algorithms, and/or swarm primitives to enable novel capabilities that specifically showcase the advantages of a swarm when leveraging and operating in complex urban environments.

A DARPA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence What's the ground truth on artificial intelligence (AI)? In this video, John Launchbury, the Director of DARPA's Information Innovation Office (I2O), attempts to demystify AI--what it can do, what it can't do, and where it is headed. Through a discussion of the "three waves of AI" and the capabilities required for AI to reach its full potential, John provides analytical context to help understand the roles AI already has played, does play now, and could play in the future.

Dogfight

• Virtual fighter jets powered by AI are battling for the chance to duel a human | Rob Verger - Popular Science ... algorithms are competing in simulated showdowns that hint at the future of aviation.
  • Former Navy TOPGUN instructor says the AI that defeated a human pilot in a simulated dogfight would have 'crashed and burned' in the real world | Ryan Pickrell - Business Insider
  • AI vs. Human Fighter Pilot: Here's Who Won the Epic Dogfight | Kyle Mizokami - Popular Mechanics

DARPA's INITIATIVE SHOWS THAT U.S IS AHEAD OF CHINA & RUSSIA IN MILITARY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ! An AI algorithm piloting an F-16 Fighting Falcon in a simulated dogfight against a seasoned US Air Force pilot achieved a perfect score with five straight wins in a competition. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) held the final round of its third and final AlphaDogfight competition on Thursday, putting an AI system designed by Heron Systems against a human pilot in a "simulated within-visual-range air combat" situation. According to Breaking Defense, Heron's AI went head-to-head with a graduate of the Air Force's Weapons Instructor Course with the callsign "Banger". An expert commentator, DARPA's Justin Mock, said that the AI algorithm demonstrated "superhuman aiming ability" during the dogfight and the human pilot couldn't score a single hit. In this video Defense Updates analyzes how AI beating fighter pilot in virtual dog fight shows that the U.S military is stealing a march in this important area?

AI defeats Veteran F-16 pilot 5 times in DARPA’s dogfight A human pilot with more than 2,000 hours in an F-16 fighter lost five straight dogfights against an artificial intelligence algorithm, in a competition organized by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Project Maven

• DoD uses Google's machine learning tools to analyze drone surveillance footage ...Google is providing TensorFlow APIs that can assist in object recognition to the Pentagon for Project Maven, which aims to leverage AI to increase drone effectiveness.

The Pentagon is using Google's AI for drones The Department of Defense and Google have worked on a few projects in the past, but their newest initiative may improve the efficiency of our drones. Learn more about this story at www.newsy.com/77397/

Algorithmic Warfare: The Next Military-Technical Revolution? Robert Work, 32nd United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, discusses Algorithmic Warfare, Project Maven, and why data is the fuel that will lead to a revolutionary period in warfare

US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)

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• DISA Issues AI Test & Evaluation Tech, Support RFI | Matthew Nelson - GovConWire
• DISA Seeks AI-Based Solution to Cyberattacks | Katie Malone - MeriTalk
• DISA plans for more Other Transaction Authority (OTAs) after early successes | Billy Mitchell - FedScoop ...

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THE DISA VISION: To be the trusted provider to connect and protect the warfighter in cyberspace.

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Navy Vice Adm. Nancy Norton - DISA Forecast to Industry 2018 Navy Vice Adm. Nancy Norton, DISA director and Joint Force Headquarters - DOD Information Network (JFHQ-DODIN) commander, speaks about trusted partnerships at the DISA Forecast to Industry on Nov. 5, 2018.

Dr. Brian Hermann – DISA Forecast to Industry 2018 Dr. Brian Hermann, acting services development executive, speaks about agency contracting and acquisition opportunities for fiscal year 2019 and 2020 at the DISA Forecast to Industry on Nov. 5, 2018.

DISA 2019 Look Book USDISA

DISA Communicator Video Video premiered at DISA’s Forecast to Industry 2019 by Army Maj. Gen. Garrett Yee, assistant to the director.

Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC)

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• Lawmakers want Joint AI Center directly under deputy secretary of Defense | Jackson Barnett - Fedscoop
• With $106M contract, JAIC takes major step building central AI platform for DOD | Jackson Barnett - Fedscoop ...Joint Common Foundation (JCF) AI development cloud platform, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) ready
• How the Pentagon’s JAIC Says It’s Prioritizing Ethics In Its AI-Driven Pursuits | Brandi Vincent - Nextgov

The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) is the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Center of Excellence that provides a critical mass of expertise to help the Department harness the game-changing power of AI. To help operationally prepare the Department for AI, the JAIC integrates technology development, with the requisite policies, knowledge, processes and relationships to ensure long term success and scalability. The mission of the JAIC is to transform the DoD by accelerating the delivery and adoption of AI to achieve mission impact at scale. The goal is to use AI to solve large and complex problem sets that span multiple services; then, ensure the Services and Components have real-time access to ever-improving libraries of data sets and tools. The JAIC’s holistic approach includes:

• Accelerating the delivery and adoption of AI
• Scaling the impact of AI across the Department
• Defend U.S. critical infrastructure from malicious cyber activity that alone, or as part of a campaign, could cause a significant cyber incident
• Establishing a common foundation that enables decentralized execution and experimentation
• Evolving partnerships with industry, academia, allies and partners
• Cultivating a leading AI workforce
• Leading in military AI ethics and safety.

The JAIC delivers AI capabilities to the Department through two distinct categories: National Mission Initiatives (NMIs) and Component Mission Initiatives (CMIs). NMIs are broad, joint, hard, cross-cutting AI/ML challenges that the JAIC will run using a cross-functional team approach. The CMIs component- specific and solve a particular problem. CMIs will be run by the components, with support from JAIC in a number of ways that include funding, data management, common foundation, integration into programs of record, and sustainment. The performance goal focuses on accelerating the delivery of AI-enabled capabilities, scaling the impact of AI throughout the DoD, and synchronizing DoD AI activities to expand Joint Force advantage. The National Defense Strategy (NDS) foresees that ongoing advances in artificial intelligence (AI) "will change society and, ultimately, the character of war." To preserve and expand our military advantage and enable business reform, we must pursue AI applications with boldness and alacrity while ensuring strong commitment to military ethics and AI safety. A new approach is required to increase the speed and agility with which we deliver AI-enabled capabilities and adapt our way of fighting. Achieving this goal requires close coordination and synchronization among DoD components.

Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Brief Jill Crisman, Chief Scientist and Acting Chief Technical Officer, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center

Acting Director of Artificial Intelligence Discusses DOD's AI Initiatives, UNITED STATES, 07.08.2020 Defense Flash News: Nand Mulchandani, acting director of the Defense Department’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, takes questions from reporters at the Pentagon about DOD's artificial intelligence initiatives, July 8, 2020. Film Credits: Defense.gov

ICIT 2019 Briefing: The JAIC - Using AI to Transform & Secure the DoD w/ Col. Trent, DoD ICIT Fall 2019 Briefing in Washington D.C. Featuring Colonel Stoney Trent, Chief of Missions, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, DoD

2019 ICIT Briefing: Insights w/ DoD JAIC Chief of Missions, Colonel Stoney Trent ICIT 2019 Fall Briefing in Washington D.C. : DoD, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Chief of Missions Colonel Stoney Trent answers "What is the most important lesson that attendees should take away from your remarks at today's ICIT briefing?"

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence - AI in the DOD (Lecture #18) Harnessing Artificial Intelligence - AI in the DOD (Lecture #18, Dec. 2, 2019); By Dr. Bret Michael, Professor, NPS Department of Computer Science / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Online Event: A Conversation with JAIC Director Lt. Gen. John N.T. “Jack” Shanahan Please join the International Security Program on Friday, May 29th at 9:30 am ET for a conversation with Lieutenant General Jack Shanahan, the Director of the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. Established in 2018, the JAIC is the organization leading the Defense Department’s efforts to operationalize AI for national security. Beyond technology development, the JAIC serves as the focal point for AI governance in defense and the institution of ethical principles for AI use. This conversation will explore how AI is being integrated into the defense enterprise and how the Department is adapting talent acquisition and management to the needs of a 21st century digital organization. AI and subsets like machine learning also have the potential to reshape and even transform intelligence missions. The conversation will also explore how these technologies can better empower U.S. intelligence and how the Department of Defense and broader Intelligence Community can best leverage these technologies for future defense and intelligence missions.

Software-Defined Enterprise (SDE) / Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

• Why DISA Has Embraced SDN for the Pentagon | Phil Goldstein FedTech ...Software-Defined Networking (SDN) makes it easier to provision networks for the Defense Department and also enhances network security.
• Artificial Intelligence Enabled Software Defined Networking: A Comprehensive Overview | Majd Latah and Levent Toker
• SDN, AI, and DevOps | Russ White - Rule11 Reader

4TH Estate Network Optimization - Defense Enclave Services (DES) USDISA The Fourth Estate Network Optimization will modernize the DoD IT architecture, consolidate networks, reduce costs, improve business practices and mitigate operational and cyber risks. The 14 organizations onboarding between fiscal years 2020-2025 onto DoDNet.

ENCOR - SD-WAN Principles It's time for the ENCOR 1.4 blueprint - The Principles of SD-WAN! In this video, we explore the problems with traditional WANs, why SD-WAN is a game-changer, and how Cisco's SD-WAN solution is architected.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Software-Defined Network (SDN) See how DCConnect makes use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to apply on Software-Defined Networking (SDN) so as to improve network planning and facilitate efficient network utilization. Let’s see how DCConnect helps our customers to drive their network cost down with our solution on multi-point Carrier Ethernet Orchestration.

Cisco's Intent-Based Networking and the Journey to Software Defined Networks Expert Cisco instructor Chris Olsen explores Cisco's Intent-Based Networking and the Journey to Software Defined Networks. As organizations migrate to all-digital solutions in areas like Cloud, Mobility, and IoT, the strength of network will be more critical than ever. Cisco's Intent-Based Networks and SDN solutions will enable your organization to meet the demands of tomorrow's networks including programmability and automation. To learn more about Cisco Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Training, visit http://ter.li/okom270

Virtualization - Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS)

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• How to Know if You’re Ready to Deploy a Dark Fiber Network | Rob Coenen - Lightwave ...unused or under-utilized fiber infrastructure (including fibers, cabling, and repeaters) that was laid as part of a hedge against exponential growth in data use.
• DISA wants ideas on dynamic spectrum sharing | Lauren C. Williams - GCN ...solutions that could speed spectrum sharing capabilities, what the legal and national security challenges are and what is involved in owning and operating an independent domestic 5G network

Spectrum Sharing utilizes virtualization to partition optical spectrum

R&S Thirty-Five: Introduction to 5G Dynamic Spectrum Sharing 5G and LTE cooperating and sharing the same frequency. Is this possible and what are the technology settings and adjustments to make this real? Check out our today´s webcast and find out what Andreas Rößler, Technology Manager at Rohde & Schwarz thinks about it!

5G & Spectrum Sharing Panel, Mobile World Congress LA 2019 Industry and government leaders discuss the SC2 Championship, how this relates to other spectrum sharing efforts being pursued by industry leaders and regulators, and look forward to the future of 5G and Spectrum Sharing technologies. Moderator: John Chapin, SC2 Subject Matter Expert Panelists: - Paul Tilghman, SC2 Program Manager, DARPA - Ali Kyayrallah, Engineering Director, Ericsson Research - John Smee - VP of Engineering, Qualcomm Research - Julius Knapp - Chief, Office of Engineering and Technology, FCC - Fred Moorefield - Acting Deputy CIO - C4IIC, DoD

Stanford Seminar - The Future of Wireless Communications Hint: It's not a linear amplifier EE380: Computer Systems Colloquium Seminar Speaker: Douglas Kirkpatrick is the co-founder and CEO of Eridan Communications ...The future of wireless communications will demand leaps in spectrum efficiency, bandwidth efficiency, and power efficiency for successful technology deployments. Key applications that will fundamentally change how we interact with wireless systems and the demands we place on wireless technologies include Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, massive MIMO, and the evasive unicorn of the "universal handset". While each of these breakthrough "system" capabilities make simultaneous demands of spectrum efficiency, bandwidth efficiency, and power efficiency, the current suite of legacy technologies forces system designers to make undesirable trade-offs because of the limitations of linear amplifier technology. ...Dr. Kirkpatrick was a Program Manager and Chief Scientist at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). While he was at DARPA he started and managed programs that, among other things, developed and deployed the first LED flashlights, started and validated the DOD path to bio-renewable jet fuel, developed and demonstrated ultra-high efficiency solar cells, developed and demonstrated full 3d dynamic holographic displays, and developed and demonstrated portable tools for the rapid de-novo synthesis of DNA up to 10,000 base pairs long. In addition to his DARPA role he was simultaneously the Senior Technologist for Technology Productization for the Undersecretary for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics in the Department of Defense... Dr. Kirkpatrick is a Fellow of the American Physics Society, a Member of the IEEE, and a Member of the Materials Research Society. Dr. Kirkpatrick holds a BS degree in Physics and Mathematics (1980) from the College of William and Mary and a Ph.D. in Physics from M.I.T. (1988).

5G-IoT-Edge-ML/AI: Technologies That Will Transform Digi International Inc. 5G networks are being deployed, and we believe that 5G, IoT, edge compute, machine learning and artificial intelligence will combine to create the perfect technological storm – in a good way! In this video Digi engineering director Harald Remmert describes how low-cost IoT devices combined with the huge capacity of 5G will transform society, and how you can leverage 4G LTE today.

China

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• Chinese Perspectives on AI and Future Military Capabilities | Ryan Fedasiuk - CSET ... This study constructs a framework for systematically assessing arguments about AI’s effect on military capabilities and strategic stability. It applies the framework to 58 journal articles written from 2016–2020 by People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers, defense industry engineers, and academics at leading Chinese universities (hereafter “experts”) about artificial intelligence and future weapons systems.
• Rise of Chinese AI and quantum computing threatens American military tech, says report for US Congress | Kristin Huang - South China Morning Post ...The days of the PLA lagging well behind the US in military technology are long gone, says analyst

US-China War (Sept 1, 2020): US Military Attack China in South China Sea (Developing New Weapons) The United States must prepare for a possible military conflict with China by developing new weapons, strengthening ties with allies and improving the Pentagon’s efficiency, a senior Trump administration official said on Thursday. As China expands its ability to project force far beyond its shores, the Pentagon needs to “build and deploy a more lethal, resilient joint force”, including more hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, robots and laser weapons, Sbragia testified.

Chinese Defense Innovation: AI, Cyber, and Quantum Computing Elsa Kania, Adjunct Fellow - Center for a New American Security’s Technology and National Security Program Emerging Technologies in Great Power Competition CYBERWEEK 2018 Tel Aviv University 19.6.18

Russia

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• Russian AI-Enabled Combat: Coming To A City Near You? | Margarita Konaev and Samuel Bendett - War on the Rocks ...when it comes to military applications of artificial intelligence, overlooking Russia is a mistake.
• AI to assist Russian military brass in decision-making, says hi-tech manufacturer | TASS ...The company CEO drew a line between "assistance" in decision-making and "decision-making" itself, stressing that he means the former
• Russia’s Got Dogfighting Drones, Too—Just How Smart Are They? | David Axe - Forbes

Putin: Whoever Masters Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Rule The World! Russian President Vladimir Putin recently explained what he believes is necessary to rule the world. “If someone could guarantee themselves a monopoly in the area of artificial intelligence, the consequences are clear to us all – they would become the world ruler,” the TASS news agency cited Putin as saying. The Russian president remarked that the fight for technological superiority, including in the field of AI, has already become a field for global competition. “The speed at which new products and solutions are created is growing exponentially,” he observed. Putin noted that many countries have already chosen their strategies concerning AI. “We too, of course, must ensure our technological sovereignty in the AI field,” he said, adding that it is the most important condition for the success of Russia’s business, economy, security, defensive capability and quality of human life.

Bendett, Kania & Watley on Chinese, Russian Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analysis, Elsa Kania of the Center for a New American Security, and Jack Watley, PhD, of the Royal United Services Institute, discuss Russian and Chinese artificial intelligence and autonomy capabilities with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted after a panel discussion hosted by CNA at its Northern Virginia headquarters.