DefenceTalkThree Army technologies were in play at the recently conducted Army Expeditionary Warfighter Experiment, or AEWE, on Fort Benning, Georgia. “AEWE is [Training and Doctrine Command, or TRADOC] live, prototype experimentation campaign,” said Harry J. Lubin, chief of the experimentation branch, Maneuver Center of Excellence. This year, 66 industry and military technologies participated in AEWE. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-warfighter-experiment-highlights-new-technologies-63430/

DefenceTalkThe Defense Department is seeking novel ideas to shape its future, and officials are looking to industry, small business, academia, start-ups, the public –- anyone, really –- to boost its ability to prevail against adversaries whose access to technology grows daily. The program, called the Long-Range Research and Development Plan, or LRRDP, began with an […]https://www.defencetalk.com/dod-seeks-novel-ideas-to-shape-its-technological-future-63297/

DefenceTalkThe United States is being outpaced in the technological advantages of potential allies such as Russia and China, but the solution to that problem does not necessarily exist in the defense budget, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry said in a Monday press conference. “I think one clear takeaway for me and for most […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-military-losing-race-in-technological-superiority-62648/

DefenceTalkTerrorists are using social media to plan events, recruit, share information, propaganda, and so on. “We can detect [their activities] pretty well, but I’m not sure we know what to do about it,” said a terrorism expert. Countering terrorists’ leveraging of social media is going to be a challenge, said Robert Newberry, director of the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/unprecedented-technology-poses-challenges-for-special-ops-62485/

DefenceTalkIn 1989 several Western states imposed arms sanctions on China. However, China has continued to take advantage of the military-relevant Western goods and technologies in the efforts to modernize its defence forces’ industrial and technological abilities. This Insurance Policy Paper particulars the guidelines of 4 Western states-France, Germany, the Uk and also the U . […]https://www.defencetalk.com/western-arms-exports-to-china-62462/

DefenceTalkThis time it is the head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Dr. Arati Prabhakar, making the same observation as virtually every other senior uniform and civilian leader in the Department of Defense: U.S. weapons systems cost too much. In an interview for the Defense News with Vago Muradian television show, Dr. Prabhakar […]https://www.defencetalk.com/technology-is-not-the-solution-to-the-high-cost-of-weapons-systems-59667/

DefenceTalkMany of the advances that contribute to national security resulted from early investment in developing new technologies, the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency told Congress yesterday. Dr. Arati Prabhakar represented the Defense Department at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing called to address concern that the national investment in research and development had […]https://www.defencetalk.com/darpa-sows-seeds-of-technological-surprise-director-says-59483/

DefenceTalkThe Pentagon is in fear of losing its edge in technology it has held onto for so long and is now factoring this important aspect into its budget. Worry over significant cuts in defense spending might wear down the US military, making its technological edge over Russia and China a fact of the past. This […]https://www.defencetalk.com/budget-plan-pentagon-panics-over-possibly-losing-tech-edge-to-russia-china-58948/

DefenceTalkToday’s emerging military technologies-including unmanned aerial vehicles, directed-energy weapons, lethal autonomous robots, and cyber weapons like Stuxnet-raise the prospect of upheavals in military practices so fundamental that they challenge long-established laws of war. Weapons that make their own decisions about targeting and killing humans, for example, have ethical and legal implications obvious and frightening enough […]https://www.defencetalk.com/technology-one-step-ahead-of-war-laws-50045/

DefenceTalkThe US army is working to limit its dependence on GPS by developing the next generation of navigation technology, including a tiny autonomous chip, the director of the Pentagon’s research agency said Wednesday. DARPA, the research group behind a range of spy tech and which helped invent the Internet, was also the driving force behind […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-seeks-new-technology-to-replace-gps-47624/