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CHINA'S ACOUSTIC WEAPON AIMED AT US; GRAVE MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT A.I.

3/25/2019

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CHINA:
China's Acoustic Cannon

By Bill Gertz, The Washington Times: “U.S. intelligence and security agencies investigating the mysterious sonic attacks against American diplomatic personnel in China need to look no further than China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology."
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The Pentagon is 'Absolutely Unapologetic' About Pursuing AI-Powered Weapons
 
// Jack Corrigan  Much criticism of military AI projects is rooted in "grave misperceptions," say current and former defense officials.
The Newest AI-Enabled Weapon: 'Deep-Faking' Photos of the Earth
 
// Patrick Tucker Worries about deep fakes — machine-manipulated videos of celebrities and world leaders purportedly saying or doing things that they really didn’t — are quaint compared to a new threat: doctored images of the Earth itself.
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Solving One of the Hardest Problems of Military AI: Trust
 
// Luke Hartig and Kendall VanHoose  The U.S. Department of Defense is making big bets on artificial intelligence – rolling out new strategies, partnerships, organizations, and budgets to develop the technology for military uses. But as DOD moves to harness this technology, its success may hinge in part on something that is not technical in nature: overcoming the massive gaps in trust around AI. That trust gap is actually many gaps – between humans and machines, the public and the government, the private sector and the government, and among governments – and undertaking the hard task of working through them will be key to integrating AI into national defense. 
Without JEDI, Pentagon’s AI efforts may be hindered
(NextGov) DOD won’t be able to fully harness AI unless it manages to build — or buy — a national-defense cloud.
DARPA Wants AI to Learn Language as Human Babies Do
 
// Jack Corrigan  The Pentagon's research wing is funding efforts to build AI language systems that learn more like people and less like machines.
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QUANTUM RESISTANT CRYPTOGRAPHY IS HERE & PENTAGON'S CHIEF LOOKS AT FUTURE OF WAR

3/15/2019

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CHINA:
China's Space Denial Weapons

By Vinayak Bhat, ThePrint: “China has developed technology like directed energy weapons and electromagnetic pulses that can dazzle, disable or destroy satellites."
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The Race for Quantum Resistant Cryptography
By Stew Magnuson, National Defense Magazine: “A little known technological race is occurring in the realm of computer sciences and it could have an enormous impact for those who rely on encrypted communications."
Russia Racing to Complete National AI Strategy by June 15
 
// Samuel Bendett That's just one of several high-tech deadlines Putin set recently. 
Defense Community Slow to Grasp Potential of Quantum-Based Tech
By Stew Magnuson, National Defense Magazine: “Four stories underground — encased in several feet of concrete — is the University of Chicago’s new nanofabrication facility, where researchers apply the principles of quantum physics to real-world problems and technologies."
Lasers, Hypersonics, & AI: Mike Griffin’s Killer Combo  By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., Wednesday, March 20, 2019 1:21 PM
 Army debuts missile defense framework in move to counter drones, hypersonic threats
(Defense News) The U.S. Army released its new air and missile defense framework March 27 that aims to pursue multimission units and counter emerging threats like drones and hypersonic missiles, the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command chief told Defense News in an interview just ahead of the Association of the U.S. Army’s Global Force Symposium. 
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"ITS ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE", HOW PRESENTISM HURTS INNOVATION IN WAR STRATEGY & WAR GAMING EXERCISES DESTROY FORTRESS US

3/9/2019

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 US ‘gets its ass handed to it’ in wargames: Here’s a $24 billion fix
(Breaking Defense) The US keeps losing, hard, in simulated wars with Russia and China. Bases burn. Warships sink. But we could fix the problem for about $24 billion a year, one well-connected expert said, less than four percent of the Pentagon budget. 
Neophilia, Presentism, & Their Deleterious Consequences
for Western Military Strategy

By Paul Barnes, Modern War Institute: “It is often treated as an assumed truth in Western defense establishments that the world is experiencing a period of political instability unparalleled in over a century. This belief, combined with the observation that technology and its effect on society are advancing at an unprecedented rate, have become key drivers of military transformation."
Ep. 40: Cruise missiles, missile defense and 21st century hybrid war
 
// Defense One Staff Welcome to our podcast about the news, strategy, tech, and business trends defining the future of national security.
US ‘Loyal Wingman’ Takes Flight: AFRL & Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie
By Colin Clark, Thursday, March 7, 2019 4:27 PM
A single F-35 could have a flock of “loyal wingman” drones to carry weapons, jam radars, and if need be take a hit and die to save their human commander.
 Introducing Skyborg, your new AI wingman
(C4ISRNET) “You can be my wingman anytime.” In the future, Iceman of “Top Gun” could be saying those words to an artificial intelligence version of Maverick instead of a flesh-and-blood aviator played by Tom Cruise. 
Did RAND get it right in its war game exercise?
(Asia Times) The RAND Corporation with Pentagon support has carried out a war game simulation in which the United States loses to both Russia and China. The US and NATO are unable to stop an attack in the Balkans by the Russians, and the United States and its allies are unable to prevent the takeover of Taiwan by China.
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CHINA SEEKS TO WIN A.I. WARS, WHY THE LESSONS OF CAUDINE FORKS MATTERS & THE LIMITS TO ARTIFICIAL INTEL IN WAR WITH DARPA'S BREAKTHROUGH

3/2/2019

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HOW TO BAN LETHAL A.I.
Don’t call it an ‘arms race’: US-China AI competition is not winner-takes-all
(Defense One) The most common framing of the two countries’ artificial-intelligence development is dangerous.
Beware the Lesson of the Caudine Forks
By Brandon Quintin, Small Wars Journal: “There are certain events in military history that rise above the rest. They are not merely battles, campaigns, or wars. They teach more than the specifics of military science."
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DARPA's New AI, Machine Learning 'Breakthrough'
By Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven: “A DARPA-led “Lifelong Learning Machines” (L2M) program, intended to massively improve real-time AI and machine learning, rests upon the fundamental premise that certain machine-learning-capable systems might struggle to identify, integrate and organize some kinds of new or complicated yet-to-be-seen information.”
Autonomous Weapons and Decision Support Systems
By C. Anthony Pfaff, Strategy Bridge: “ ... several organizations and researchers working in artificial intelligence have signed a “Lethal Autonomous Weapons Pledge” that expressly prohibits development of machines that can decide to take a human life."
Inside DARPA’s Ambitious ‘AI Next’ Program
By Jack Corrigan, Defense One: “The defense research agency seeks artificial intelligence tools capable of human-like communication and logical reasoning that far surpass today’s tech."
Building Modern Screw-Sloops? Strategic Choices about Artificial Intelligence in Defense by Nina Kollars and Doyle Hodges
 China steps up efforts to develop military tech to challenge US
(South China Morning Post) China is stepping up its efforts to develop new weaponry ranging from guns to fighter jets to challenge US dominance, according to Chinese military officials. 
 
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