Tuesday, January 9, 2018

The U.S. Air Force Has Big Plans On Using Satellites, Cyberspace, Advanced Aircraft And Artificial Intelligence

The B-21 bomber may be equally important as a stealthy scout, collecting intelligence deep in enemy airspace

Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., Breaking Defense: Air Force ISR ‘Flight Plan,’ Industry Day Coming: Stealth, Space, Cyber, & AI

CAPITOL HILL: The Air Force is finalizing a high-tech “flight plan” for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance investments, the deputy chief of staff for ISR said here. The service can’t keep buying more and more drones to collect more and more data and then hiring more and more human analysts to plow through it, Lt. Gen. Veralinn “Dash” Jamieson told a small group. So the new strategy will make better use of satellites, cyberspace, advanced aircraft like the F-35 and B-21, and even publicly available information on the Internet, as well as artificial intelligence to help analyze the vast amounts of incoming data.

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WNU Editor:  Talk about ambitious programs. If successful .... it will make fighting wars and conflicts more "efficient".

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The US will lose future wars if it doesn't train AI for fully automated engagements. While currently not legal in the US and soon internationally you can bet that China won't give a f*** about moral or human dignity in warfare and will march ahead with its ai militarisation programs. And Russia too.

It is literally about changing military dominance and breaking a few rules of engagement won't bother our adversaries