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Microsoft Positions Itself To Win Space Data Market With Azure Orbital Offering Ground-Stations-as-a-Service means customers are only obliged to pay for the amount of time they actually need to use on the station.

Army Robots Hunt Tanks In Project Convergence The pair of unmanned scout vehicles had enough AI smarts aboard to navigate cross-country, identify "enemy" forces, and open fire – but a human still decides whether to shoot.

Longer-Range Missiles & More AI: Project Convergence 2021 Next fall, the Army aims to test a new artificial intelligence for artillery and fire the prototype PrSM missile to its full 300-plus-mile range — once they find a venue that's big enough.

AFWERX Seeks Next Breakthrough Tech Market For Investment "I think we need something like a PEO that is wholly focused on commercial enterprise," says Air Force acquisition czar Will Roper.

Marine F-35s Share Targeting Data With Army: Project Convergence The Army's future-warfare exercise overcame a host of technical glitches to link systems ranging from NRO and NGA spy satellites to Marine Corps fighter jets.

Are The Days Of Manned Fighters REALLY Numbered? The Observe and Orient steps of the OODA Loop are the heart and soul of dogfighting—the two most critical elements in the OODA sequence. No system in the world can touch a human's ability to capture and process those tasks.

Picking 1st ABMS Capabilities A Top Issue At Air Force Corona The technologies that allowed a tracked howitzer to shoot down a cruise missile in the Sept. 3 ABMS On Ramp was "a Sputnik or Alpha-Go moment where AI did something that could not have been done otherwise," says Will Roper.

Pushing Data 'From Space To Mud': Project Convergence "I have never in my life seen the cooperation between the agencies…the services…[and] across the Army" that's happening in this fall's wargames, Army space expert Willie Nelson told me.

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