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Anduril hires Pentagon vet Zachary Mears as head of strategy Zachary Mears (Source: Anduril Industries) WASHINGTON ― Anduril Industries has brought in Zachary Mears, a former senior Pentagon staffer, as head of strategy, the company is expected to announce Tuesday. Mears had been running Covington & Burling’s public policy practice but previously served as a chief of staff to then-Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work and as the National Security Council’s director for strategic planning. ...

This isn’t their first attempt

Machine intelligence This isn’t their first attempt WhatsApp WHEN IT COMES to artificial intelligence (AI), spy agencies have been at it longer than most. In the cold war, America’s National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) explored early AI to help transcribe and translate the enormous volumes of Soviet phone-intercepts they began hoovering up in the 1960s. Yet the technology was immature. One former European intelligence officer says his ...

The findings, ordered by Congress, include hundreds of recommendations from experts to get the DoD “AI-ready” by 2025.

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USNI News Panel: Future Fleet Numbers Not As Important As Capabilities Like Sealift, Unmanned March 1, 2021 3:03 PM Terrance Wells, from San Diego, ties straps for a containment project on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) on Oct. 26, 2020. US Navy Photo A panel of Navy experts is hopeful that discussions around the future naval fleet will focus on big-picture questions – how will the Navy and the nation pay for modernizing the sealift fleet, do...

The Marines call it their “Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations” concept. Heres What You Need to Remember: Observers long have expected the Marines to cut back on heavy combat forces in order to free up money and manpower for new anti-ship units. Sure enough, the 2021 budget proposal also asks to reduce the services ranks from 186,200 active-duty personnel to 184,100. The U.S. Marine Corps a few years ago started saying it needed to get serious about sinking enemy warships. Now the amphi...

"I am worried about the state of the readiness of the nuclear triad," Deputy SecDef nominee Kath Hicks tells the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning, “and, if confirmed, that is an area I would want to get my team in place and start to look at right away.”  By   Paul McLeary on February 02, 2021 at 1:04 PM

Further embroilment and further damage to his entire empire. i dont think he would resign without arranging to be pardoned by vice president pence. but whenever he resigns or is voted out of office, or is impeached and removed, he is going to face prosecution by state authorities as well as federal authorities. its not going to be a pretty scene. i think its going to end sooner rather than later. >> you mentioned earlier, apparent obstruction of justice, a crime. i want you to hear this from ken...

Department and it goes back to the days of bob work and the nixon administration and judge bork make a decision that a sitting president could not. i think the case of clinton versus jones when president clinton made a legal claim that he was entitled to immunity from a lawsuit was rejected by the supreme court. no person is involved in the law means a president can be di indicted, but that is not the justice department policy, and he is required to follow that policy. he cannot indict. >> there...