3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (289+ words) Answering that question requires deliberate thinking about the role of the action officer, the work they perform, and their operating environment. To build a flexible, responsible system for automating action officer duties, agencies must first answer the classic question posed…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (160+ words) The second revolution is AI. The use of AI in wargame play is not new, but we believe advancements in large language models like Retrieval-Augmented Generation and agentic AI models provide capabilities that will be revolutionary. The work needed is…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (185+ words) European states currently depend on foreign countries and their private tech firms for more than 80 percent of their critical digital products, services, infrastructure, and intellectual property. Europe lacks sufficient access to semiconductor production capacity and the domestic industrial capacity and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (791+ words) My greatest challenge while flight testing collaborative combat aircraft was not troubleshooting errors at high speed in the cockpit. It was when, in a single keystroke, my job shifted from pilot to something like a dog handler — a supervisor of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (174+ words) The regional grid operator can decide how unsupported load enters a regional capacity calculation. It cannot write the retail service contract between a utility and a data center or decide how a state allocates local distribution costs. The same project…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (459+ words) North of the Pentagon, a task force few know about operates in a Maryland basement. They collect intelligence, develop missions, and execute against targets 24/7 within their commander’s intent, even when he is unreachable. Senior leaders should stop treating AI agents…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (185+ words) The Marine Corps just released its plan to fight against adversaries on land, and Ryan had the two architects of the plan, Ground Combat Element 2040, on the show to talk about it. They discuss drones, resilience, long-range fires, logistics, and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (358+ words) In 2015, I believed the fringe position that by 2035 autonomous systems for defense would become ubiquitous. First, there would be swarms of robots on the battlefield. Second, every military asset would be powered and piloted by physical AI. The saying “hardware…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (219+ words) Yet American leaders are dragging their feet in reckoning with this undeniable technological transition. Many of the electrotech components defining this shift are associated with either Beijing or maligned as belonging to the climate movement, slowing their adoption. This transformation…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (170+ words) Xi could reverse this quickly if he chose. A single plenary session of the Central Committee would be enough to reshuffle the commission through normal party procedures, and such sessions have been held routinely in the past. That he has…...