Miscellaneous

[Administrator]

Article "China’s Intelligent Weaponry Gets Smarter"

by John Markoff and Matthew Rosenberg
February 3, 2017

 

[Administrator]

Article "Kalashnikov develops fully automated neural network-based combat module"

July 5, 2017

 

[Administrator]

OUTRIDER unmanned aircraft innovation from Lockheed Martin & Wirth Research

Published on Sep 12, 2017

Meet OUTRIDER our unmanned aircraft system developed in collaboration with Lockheed Martin and unveiled today at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) Exhibition

 

[Administrator]

Article "An AI-Powered Network Could Save the US Navy Billions of Dollars"

by Patrick Caughill
January 1, 2018

 

[Administrator]

"Artificial Intelligence in Military Market Worth 18.82 Billion USD by 2025"

March 22, 2018

 

[Administrator]

Article "Google employees demand the company pull out of Pentagon AI project"
‘Google should not be in the business of war.’

by Dani Deahl
April 4, 2018

 

[Administrator]

Should we use AI machines in war? - Tomorrow's World - BBC

Published on May 16, 2018

Professor Stuart Russell discusses the potential use of AI drones in warfare. The United States have trialled using autonomous weaponised drones and they could be the next major weapons of mass destruction. The question is: do we want machines to make decisions on killing in war?

 

[Administrator]

Article "Artificial Intelligence in the Navy – Current Contractors and Innovations"

by Millicent Abadicio
January 23, 2019

 

[Administrator]

Article "Developments in military: what it means and what it doesn't"

by Justin Lee
April 18, 2019

 

[Administrator]

Article "The Air Force’s 5 principles to advance artificial intelligence"

by Kelsey Reichmann
June 26, 2019

 

[Administrator]

Panel discussion: Artificial Intelligence in the military

Published on Aug 5, 2019

Watch as panelists discuss artificial intelligence as it relates to military uses during AFWERX Fusion 2019.

Moderator:
- Andrew S. Bowne, Associate Professor, Contract and Fiscal Law Department, The Judges Advocate General's School

Panelists:
- Michael Kanaan, Captain, Co-chair for Artificial Intelligence, HAF AI Cross-Functional Team U.S. Air Force
- Eric Frahm, Lt. Col., Technology Integration Detachment Director Air Education & Training Command, U.S. Air Force
- Anthony Sanchez, Technical Director, Government, Veritone Inc.
- Matthew J. Tarascio, VP & Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Corporate Engineering, Technology & Operations, Lockheed Martin

 

[Administrator]

Article "Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill"
Tomorrow’s wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare.

by Zachary Fryer-Biggs
September 2, 2019

 

[Administrator]

Article "The Pentagon's AI Chief Prepares for Battle"
Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan doesn't want killer robots—but he does want artificial intelligence to occupy a central role in warfighting.

by Elias Groll
December 18, 2019

 

[Administrator]

"Revolutionary Artificial Intelligence warship contracts announced"
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has announced the first wave of £4 million funding

January 14, 2020

 

[Administrator]

Article "Pentagon will start figuring out AI for lethality in 2021"

by Kelsey D. Atherton
January 22, 2020

 

[Administrator]

Article "Aided Detection on the Future Battlefield"

by by Patrick Ferraris
January 24, 2020

 

[Administrator]

Discover the first unmanned mine warfare system operational at sea - Thales

Feb 4, 2020

The French Marine Nationale and the Royal Navy will be the first navies in the world to benefit from 2 fully unmanned mine warfare systems in the coming weeks. Based on surface and submarine robots and drones, this solution aims at keeping sailors away from the threat and will revolutionize the mine warfare domain. This system is also based on artificial intelligence technologies that will significantly improve the detection and identification of the threat and will be of prime importance for the operators in conducting their protection missions.

 

[Administrator]

The killer robot takeover is inevitable

Feb 16, 2020

VICE gained exclusive access to a small fleet of US Army bomb disposal robots—the same platforms the military has weaponized—and to a pair of DARPA’s six-foot-tall bipedal humanoid robots. We also meet Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams, renowned physicist Max Tegmark, and others who grapple with the specter of artificial intelligence, killer robots, and a technological precedent forged in the atomic age. It’s a story about the evolving relationship between humans and robots, and what AI in machines bodes for the future of war and the human race.

 

[Administrator]

Navy's first unmanned surface vessel demonstrates future of homeland protection

Feb 18, 2020

During Exercise Citadel Shield-Solid Curtain 2020, the CUSV was demonstrated during a force protection scenario at Naval Station Norfolk, Feb. 12.

The Navy-industry Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA team—comprised of Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NWCDD) and Textron Systems—is responsible for developing multi-mission payloads for the Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle (CUSV).

Videographers: MC2 Grant Grady, MC3 Skyler Okerman, MC3 Rebekah Rinckey
Producer: Travis Kuykendall

 

[Administrator]

Doomsday Machine - Dead Hand / Perimeter System and Supercomputer NDMC

May 18, 2020

NDMC is a military supercomputer with a speed of 16 petaflops. The storage capacity is 236 petabytes. The NDMC is designed to predict the development of armed conflicts and is able to analyze the situation and draw conclusions based on the info. about past military conflicts. The database of the NDMC contains data on the major armed conflicts of modernity for the efficient analysis of future threats. According to the Minister of Defense S.Shoigu of December 30, 2016, a 50% increase in the productivity and power of a NDMC increasing possibilities is not ruled out. The NDMC can continuously monitor troop movements, congestion in transport infrastructure, the publication of media publications and messages on social networks. Various incidents and their consequences are modeled, and the impact of weather conditions is assessed. Developed mathematical models allow us to calculate the optimal options for the execution of tasks. The NDMC successfully predicted and simulated scenarios of the negative development of the situation with opposition riots in Venezuela. The on-duty shift of specialists issued warnings two months, a month, 10 and 5 days before the exacerbation. The NDMC also learns to recognize the profiles of new enemy missiles and weapons.
Dead Hand ("Perimeter" System, with the GRAU Index 15E601) is a Cold War-era automatic nuclear weapons-control system. An example of fail-deadly and mutual assured destruction deterrence, it can automatically trigger the launch of the Russian ICBMs by sending a pre-entered highest-authority order from the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Strategic Missile Force Management to command posts and individual silos if a nuclear strike is detected by seismic, light, radioactivity, and pressure sensors even with the commanding elements fully destroyed. In order to ensure its functionality the system was originally designed as fully automatic, and with the ability to decide on the adequate retaliatory strike on its own with no (or minimal) human involvement in the event of an all-out attack. Upon activation and determination of the happening of a nuclear war, the system sends out a 15P011 command missile with a special 15B99 warhead which passes commands to
open all silos and all command centers of the RVSN with appropriate receivers in flight.