Before the Air Force will trust AI to pick out targets, Gen. Holmes said, it has to get smarter than a human three-year-old.

Innovators! You have until Aug. 23 to submit white papers on how to make the future infantry squad “10 times more effective.”

The first demonstration of Carmel was held Aug. 4 before the Ministry of Defense Director General, the IDF Deputy Chief of General Staff, commander of the Ground Forces, the head of the Directorate of Defense Research and Development, and other senior defense officials.

Overheated headlines to the contrary, the Defense Secretary is keeping all his options open on the controversial cloud computing contract.

Presumptive Deputy Defense Secretary Norquist pledged to “revise budget review timelines and data collection standards to maximize senior leader decision-making quality and timing.”

And make it snappy: The deadline is July 26th.

DARPA’s LogX program will move DoD logistics and supply chain data to the cloud.

“This is such a data-rich world that the person who can command that data first is the one who’s gonna have a real advantage.”

“We cannot accept that the decision to kill anybody is taken by a machine or software,” says retired French Lt. Gen. Alain Bouquin, speaking about France’s policy on the use of AI.

Ground robots still lag drones, but the Army thinks both technologies are ready to field to frontline units, just at different levels.