SIMI VALLEY, Calif. -- The Air Force will propose spending $9 billion over the next five years to build a system to automatically send intelligence to front-line forces, new technology that strategists say will change how the military fights and will help deter aggression by Russia and China.The new
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — The Air Force will propose spending $9 billion over the next five years to build a system to automatically send intelligence to front-line forces, new technology that strategists say will change how the military fights and will help deter aggression by Russia and China.
While many people raised on Hollywood movies assume military intelligence is communicated automatically, the Air Force only now has created teams of software engineers writing code to directly connect the drones, ships and satellites, and the Air Force’s new proposal would build on that. Story continuesThe plan is part of an effort to shore up a cornerstone of American military strategy in the three decades since the end of the Cold War: the ability of the United States to respond to a threat of aggression toward its allies with such overwhelming power that it would be foolish for potential adversaries to try.
The effort includes developing some new forms of weaponry, like low-cost drones that can easily switch from intelligence collection to bomb delivery and are designed to be easily replaced if shot down. Air Force officials acknowledge that the new system will carry its own limitations. Artificial intelligence systems have a certain fragility, and are only as good as the data fed into them. And there are risks, of course, that artificial intelligence might miss targets or threats a human might see.
Air Force officials say it is also requiring them to build software development teams to write code and an investment arm to give the military early access to promising Silicon Valley technology.
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