Army Says It Needs $2B More Per Year For Big Six: Over Half For Air & Missile Defense
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Looking to spend billions more on its top modernization programs, the Army is changing things up by spending those dollars in places that might come as a bit of a surprise.
Marines Reorganize Infantry For High-Tech War: Fewer Riflemen, More Drones
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“Everything that Marine wears — from their boots to their socks to their utilities to their helmet — is all going to be changed,” the Commandant said. “We’ve got money now to do that, and so we’ve got to make it happen now. We’ve got to make it happen now, because I’m not going to make the assumption that that money’s going to be there.”
Pentagon’s Big AI Program, Maven, Already Hunts Data in Middle East, Africa
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Project Maven has made huge strides in its first year, but the key is remaining open to updates from whoever has the best idea for new algorithms, and new code, a military leader says.
Allies Must Develop Own Robots, Not Just ‘Copy’ US: Aussie War College Chief
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“If at some point in future, you need to expand your capability, expand your military,” Maj. Gen. Ryan said, “Australia’s at the end of a very long line of industrial resupply, and we might want to have the capacity ourselves.”
Marine Corps Braces For 2020 Budget Cuts: Gen. Neller
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The Marines are plenty happy about getting more money in 2018 and 2019, but are nervously eyeing the potential return of sequestration in 2020. And it’s influencing how the Corps is spending that money today.
Trump Loosens Rules on Drone Sales, Pledges More Arms Sales
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The new rules, which are still a work in progress, will allow for easier export of laser-designating drones, while shipping more and more weapons overseas to cut into Chinese and Russian sales.
Coast Guard Fears Two-Year Budget Boost Just A Blip: Adm. Zukunft
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Adm. Zukunft says he doesn’t want to return to the old culture of “martyrdom” when the service prided itself on doing more with less even as it ran its equipment and people into the ground.
Navy’s New High Altitude Drones Ready for Pacific
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The deployment comes as Beijing and Washington race to keep tabs on one another in the South China Sea.
Navy Backing Off 355 Ships, But Closer on Refueling Drone
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US, UK Test Robot Breachers, Drones In Germany
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This week’s experiment used a small zoo of specialized systems remote-controlled by humans, each with its own modest niche, working closely with each other and human forces.