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UK’s future force to lean heavily into robotics, AI and hybrid power
The new program Mercury, run by the British Army, will help shape the force for battlefields beyond 2035.
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Space
Air Force begins construction of simulation and wargaming facility for space and lasers
The Air Force Research Laboratory's new WARS Lab will open in 2023.
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US Air Force picks same bomb-destroying robot used by the British Army
The goal is to field the core system as rapidly as possible, as the global supply chain for critical subsystems like cables and connectors remains backlogged across sectors since the start of the pandemic.
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UK Space Command: Step one for space domain awareness is bringing data together
While the UK is building up its own space domain awareness tools, said Air Vice-Marshal Paul Godfrey, the military must first utilize and fuse existing sensor data.
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Head of UK’s Space Directorate warns of space terrorism
UK officials says the low cost of getting payloads on orbit could open up potential for new threats in space.
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Pentagon taps industry for nuclear-powered propulsion for its satellites
The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for commercial solutions that can provide nuclear-powered propulsion for military satellites.
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Israeli, British firms to deliver unmanned vehicles for UK experimental program
The British government's Future Capability Group wants to identify future military requirements of unmanned ground vehicles through a series of trials.
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Old systems and talent shortages pose new barriers to DOD data sharing
The Pentagon's chief data officer Dave Spirk talked with C4ISRNET about the progress that department as made on data initiatives, but identified old systems and talent shortfalls as gaps that still remain.
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To win battles of information, the US Army will need deep sensing and data handling
The service wants to use sensors to "see" across the larger distances expected for future battles. And deeper sensing makes more data to process and understand.
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A ‘persistent, proximate threat’: Why the Navy is preparing for a fight under the sea
Navy leaders are concerned about increased Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic and Chinese submarine activity in the Pacific. The U.S. homeland is no longer a sanctuary from such threats, they warn.
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