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Cheap electronic decoys providing Army units more flexibility and options on the battlefield. Mark Pomerleau reports from Fort Johnson: https://lnkd.in/g_DZHW3Y
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As part of the Air Force’s sweeping changes to be better organized to fight a sophisticated China threat, the service is splitting up its intelligence and cyber directorate on the Air Staff at the Pentagon. Like the Navy, the Air Force years ago chose to integrate its intelligence function — known as the 2 — and its communications and network function, known as the 6, into the A2/6, led by a three-star general. It also added cyber to that portfolio, resulting in an official title of deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and cyber effects operations. https://lnkd.in/gscu3pJm
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The Army awarded drone maker AeroVironment a new indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract worth up to $990 million for multiple variants of the company’s Switchblade loitering munitions. On Tuesday evening, the Defense Department announced that the Army awarded a deal to the company for an “organic, stand-off capability” for dismounted infantry units to destroy tanks, light armored vehicles, hardened targets and enemy personnel. However, it didn’t identify which specific system the service was buying. https://lnkd.in/gjtcjFrR
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The Defense Information Systems Agency is looking to include more cloud service providers and possibly introduce new contracting mechanisms into the next iteration of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC), according to the agency’s leader. https://lnkd.in/gi4xgmDh
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NGA to offer $700M for data-labeling to advance computer vision models, Brandi Vincent reports: https://lnkd.in/gTK6MFxR
NGA to offer $700M for data-labeling to advance computer vision models
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New planning guidance from the Marine Corps’ top officer puts a premium on modernizing the service’s command-and-control capabilities to create more lethal “kill webs” for the joint force. The directive from Commandant Gen. Eric Smith, provided to reporters ahead of its official release, highlights the key roles that Marine expeditionary units would be expected to fill in potential future fights against China in the Indo-Pacific. https://lnkd.in/gEttvEMG
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It seemed like a long shot: soldiers using small drones with MacGyvered tech that cost less than $100 to serve as decoys to divert the attention of a highly capable enemy. During a recent area defense operation, an Army unit had two possible paths it needed to take. With the opposition force closely following, the unit deployed around 50 decoys — commercial raspberry pi’s available for hobbyists on Amazon with SSID cards. The technology allowed the unit to load electronic signatures for anything from the brigade’s command post to a commander’s cell phone and mount it on small drones with a power supply, in an attempt to draw away the adversary. https://lnkd.in/ec3aFipx
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Five years after the Air Force created an integrated information warfare command, collapsing a variety of capabilities for more synchronized packages and capabilities, the entity is looking to build on the initial foundation and improve how it supports air components. Described as the competition force — meaning it is engaging adversaries below the threshold of armed conflict — 16th Air Force combines cyber, electromagnetic spectrum operations, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, information operations and weather, among others, into a single organization for unity of effort. https://lnkd.in/eHiq2pMe
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Naval Air Systems Command has launched a new effort to integrate an artificial intelligence-enabled pilot with one of its aerial targets, laying the foundation for the service’s plans to introduce autonomous flight capabilities into its aviation fleet. The Navy this week announced that it awarded a contract to Shield AI that will allow the company to integrate its AI pilot — dubbed Hivemind — onto the service’s BQM-177A subsonic aerial target. Under the five-year other transaction agreement, Shield AI will deliver a prototype test bed and conduct a technical demonstration in late 2025. Additional funding and work scope is expected through at least fiscal 2029, a Shield AI spokesperson told DefenseScoop. https://lnkd.in/eBKFGWkZ
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