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What comes after the M1 Abrams, the Army’s massive Reagan-era main battle tank? “Everything is on the table at this point,” the service’s armor modernization director, Maj. Ge...
By Paul Scharre
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The U.S. Navy began last year racing down a path to field a 355-ship fleet by 2030, a plan in which robot ships made up a significant portion of the new hulls, after Secretary...
By Paul Scharre
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Back in 1994, when quantum computers existed only as so much chalk on a blackboard, mathematician Peter Shor invented what may soon prove to be their killer app. Shor trained ...
By Paul Scharre
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President Trump set the United States on a new course with his years-long fight against Chinese technology, which he labeled a security threat and a tool for spreading Chinese...
By Paul Scharre
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The Defense Department has kicked off a new initiative to bring like-minded nations together to work on AI policies and capabilities. In September, the Pentagon’s Joint Artifi...
By Paul Scharre
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Artificial intelligence is a top modernization priority for the U.S. military, with officials envisioning a wide range of applications, from back office functions to tactical ...
By Paul Scharre
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The Trump administration announced Friday that it is banning China’s TikTok and WeChat services from mobile app stores beginning late Sunday, an unprecedented move that furthe...
By Paul Scharre
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The pilots and sensor operators who fly America’s military drones have taken on a lion’s share of the Air Force aerial combat missions for more than 20 years. Since the attac...
By Paul Scharre
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The signal wasn't subtle. While China practiced amphibious landings in a contested area of the South China Sea this month, the U.S. Navy dispatched two aircraft carriers to t...
By Paul Scharre
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When President Donald Trump looks at the military he leads, he doesn’t see a diverse group of Americans doing their jobs to protect and defend the country. He sees a massive f...
By Paul Scharre
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Dozens of immigrant physicians who enlisted through a Pentagon program meant to harness their medical skills are stuck taking out trash and filing paperwork, an immigration at...
By Paul Scharre
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As the American defense industry tries to assess the way forward under the new coronavirus pandemic, it should keep a close eye on the lower tiers of its supply chain, analyst...
By Paul Scharre & Martijn Rasser
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Your great-grandfather’s World War I helmet that’s stuffed in the back of the closet could be just as effective at preventing brain injury from some blasts as a modern-day mil...
By Paul Scharre
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The U.S. Air Force wants flying cars. But more than that, it wants to give U.S. manufacturers a head start in a hot future market. On Tuesday, service officials released a re...
By Paul Scharre
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Everything is new about Northrop Grumman’s attempt to help the military link everything it can on the battlefield. One day, as planners imagine it, commanders will be able to ...
By Paul Scharre
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Like “artificial intelligence,” a broad concept that engages numerous existing and so-far imagined technological, industrial, and social phenomena, the extended community of p...
By Paul Scharre
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Computers have gotten pretty good at making certain decisions for themselves. Automatic spam filters block most unwanted email. Some US clinics use artificial-intelligence-pow...
By Paul Scharre
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Researchers in the United States and elsewhere are paying a lot of attention to the prospect that in the coming years new nuclear weapons—and the infrastructure built to opera...
By Paul Scharre, Michael Horowitz & Alexander Velez-Green
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As evening fell on Russia’s Khmeimim airbase in western Syria, the first drones appeared. Then more, until 13 were flashing on radars, speeding towards the airbase and a nearb...
By Paul Scharre
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China switched on a massive 5G network Friday, bringing 50 cities online in one of the largest-ever single rollouts of the super-fast mobile networks. Why it matters: Right no...
By Paul Scharre