Weekly Briefing: Defense Networks & Cyber News and Analysis

The latest defense networks & cyber news and analysis from Breaking Defense.

'Made In USA' Won't Secure Supply Chain Vs. China: Solarium Rather than try to mine strategic minerals, build key technologies, and develop high-tech talent entirely on its own, the US should work together with trusted allies like Australia, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission and other experts argue.

No CMMC Penalty for Companies Hit By Solar Wind Hack "A determined adversary with the right capabilities is going to find their way in, especially if they put all their resources to bear on it," said Karlton Johnson, the chair of the CMMC Accreditation Body board of directors.

AI Can Save Taxpayers Money: JAIC Chief Applying AI to everything from predictive maintenance to financial management can save the military billions, the director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center told us – if the Pentagon can reform its cumbersome bureaucracy to exploit rapid advances in technology.

Roper Hints NGAD Could Replace F-35; Why? Life-Cycle Costs The NGAD program "represents a chance to design an airplane that is more sustainable than the F-35, if in fact the F-35 cannot get its cost-per-flying-hour down," said outgoing AF acquisition head Will Roper.

JADC2 May Be Built To Fight The Wrong War To compete with China, DoD needs to focus on spoiling Chinese military and paramilitary success at lower levels on the escalation ladder. This is more closely aligned with maneuver warfare concepts like DARPA's Mosaic Warfare.

Building JADC2: Data, AI & Warfighter Insight "There's still a lot of folks who believe that, 'oh, somebody's going to bring a big box of AI and set it on my desk,'" Lt. Gen. Mike Groen, director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, says. "This is not some black box. This is about your insight into the battlefield."

'A 20th Century Commander Will Not Survive': Why The Military Needs AI Today's huge HQs are slow-moving "rocket magnets" that can't keep up in 21st century combat, the director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center told us in an exclusive interview. To survive and win, Lt. Gen. Mike Groen said, the military must replace cumbersome manual processes with AI.

EXCLUSIVE: 'Do-Or-Die' JADC2 Summit To Crunch Common Data Standards "Standards, in many cases, provide everything but standards. Interoperability is a word normally tagged on something that is not interoperable," says Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, head of Joint Staff J6 responsible for C2 and cyber issues.

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