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SPOTLIGHT: Network Automation Enables Military Interoperability And Agility

Network automation is a key enabler that lets Special Operations Command fight both terrorists and peer/near-peer competitors in the Great Power competition.  No sign up required, read it here.

Army AI Gets Live Fire Test Next Week In an unusual bottom-up initiative, the 18th Airborne Corps is developing its own AI targeting system – and the corps' fire support coordinator says he wouldn't go to war without it.

US Industry Struggles To Strip Chinese Tech From Networks "[N]obody was watching too closely to see just how far these Chinese components and hardware have infiltrated U.S. businesses," one telecoms expert says.

EXCLUSIVE: Army Airpower To Strike Deep In EDGE21 War-game New drones – launched by helicopters in flight and built by the Pentagon's Strategic Capabilities Office – will reach out "hundreds of kilometers." Marine F-35s, 82nd Airborne troops, and Special Ops will also participate in exercise EDGE21.

Roles & Missions Scrub Needed For All Domain Ops: CSAF Brown The Pentagon needs to look at "seams, gaps and overlaps" as they implement the new strategy for All Domain Ops, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown says.

DARPA Builds AI To Avoid Army, AF Fratricide "ASTARTE helps solve the problem how to decide where physically to move [air assets] to conduct operations … even when it is an incredibly complex battlespace," says Tim Grayson, head of DARPA's Strategic Technologies Office.

Army Tests New Active Protection For Abrams, Bradley, AMPV & Stryker The Army's already installed off-the-shelf Israeli anti-missile systems on its M1 Abrams and tried similar tech on Bradley and Stryker. But what it really wants is a standardized yet customizable Modular Active Protection System (MAPS) it can install on a wide range of vehicles.

Amidst Flood Of Data, Simplicity is Key: TRADOC Chief In new simulations, Gen. Paul Funk says, "we're trying to replicate downtown Baghdad to the window, to the door knob." How do you simplify masses of data so soldiers can use it for practical training?

EXCLUSIVE — SDA, NRO Mull Direct Satellite Links To Speed Imagery To Warfighters Directly linking SDA data transport and NRO imaging satellites is one option under discussion to speed transfer of target tracking data to warfighters, SDA Director Derek Tournear says.

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