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Future Tank: Beyond The M1 Abrams
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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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Unclear on unmanned, Part 3: A New Year’s resolution to slow down
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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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As China Leads Quantum Computing Race, U.S. Spies Plan for a World with Fewer Secrets
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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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Biden likely to remain tough on Chinese tech like Huawei, but with more help from allies
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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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U.S. Military Wants to Bring Allies into AI Fold
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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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Pentagon Grappling With AI’s Ethical Challenges
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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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U.S. bans WeChat, TikTok as China becomes major focus of election
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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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Critical shortage: Overburdened drone pilots driven out of Air Force, GAO warns
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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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As the U.S. and China spar on the world stage, Cold War 2.0 may already have begun
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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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The president is a danger to the US military
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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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Immigrant doctors want to help the Army fight the coronavirus. The Pentagon won’t let them.
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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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How coronavirus could impact the defense supply chain
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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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Are today’s military helmets better at preventing brain injury? Not always, study says
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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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Will Flying Cars Help the US Beat China? The Air Force Hopes So
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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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War on Autopilot? It Will Be Harder Than the Pentagon Thinks
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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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Four Specialists Describe Their Diverse Approaches to China's AI Development
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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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When Robots Can Decide Whether You Live or Die
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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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As the US, China, and Russia build new nuclear weapons systems, how will AI be built in?
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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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Are drone swarms the future of aerial warfare?
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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 makes the first big 5G move
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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
