Transformative advances in computing, more and more emphasis on information warfare, and increasingly few sanctuaries from the reach of adversaries—those are just some of the factors that will likely define the world and the Air Force in 2040, according to a new report. The Global Futures ...
Wargame results and opportunities to asymmetrically counter adversaries are driving the Pentagon’s investment choices in new technologies, said Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering. She also said an unclassified document outlining the science and technologies underpinning the new National Defense Strategy will ...
Artificial intelligence could bring about “biological conflict," said former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, who co-chaired the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. AI’s applicability to biological warfare is “something which we don’t talk about very much,” Schmidt told defense reporters, but it poses grave ...