3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (487+ words) "It's about driving big outcomes and giving the secretary and the president options, more options. We want to move away from things that look like persistent engagement," according to Brig. Gen. William Wilburn, deputy principal cyber advisor for the DoD....

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (343+ words) Nightmare scenarios of AI-engineered super-plagues or nuclear bombs have, understandably, attracted the most attention. But there is lots of lower-hanging fruit for terrorists. Sometimes a fixation on the most dangerous threats can lead you to overlook the most probable dangers,…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (554+ words) “We have to ensure that a global pandemic or some other health event does not stop us from our ability to project those forces forward, so we can be in the place to fight and win the war and endure…...

6+ day, 35+ min ago   (108+ words) Breaking Defense The proliferation of AI is forcing the USAF to rethink cyber defense, and a new regional defense pact could shake up arms sales in the Middle East. In this week’s episode of The Break Out, networks reporter Mark…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (77+ words) Breaking Defense Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how people write, code, and analyze information, but a newer approach called Physics AI is aimed at something different: predicting how real-world defense systems will perform. In this video, Breaking Defense discusses how…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (121+ words) The defense intelligence community’s AI and cyber view forward Breaking Defense Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how the US Intelligence Community approaches everything from intelligence analysis to cybersecurity — and the shift toward increasingly autonomous AI agents is raising new questions…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (546+ words) The company also recently nabbed a $318 million "situational awareness" contract with the Pentagon. WASHINGTON — The CEO for Dataminr said his company’s tech will be going live as part of NATO’s Maven Smart System sometime this week, days after the open…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (749+ words) Traditional thinking about how to protect facilities must adapt to new threats such as drones or downstream attacks. Securing facilities both inside and outside the US is becoming increasingly complex, as new threats such as drones mean the old model…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (298+ words) "When people say, ‘Hey, we're at an inflection point,’ we are absolutely at an inflection point,” 16th Air Force commander Lt. Gen. Thomas Hensley said of AI threats to the network. WASHINGTON — In the face of emerging cyber threats posed by…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (165+ words) Andrew Magliochetti, who previously served as the director of the Navy’s Office of Small Business Programs, will oversee the Office of the Defense Industrial Base. WASHINGTON — The Navy is launching a new defense industrial base office, in an attempt to…...