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In the second episode of High Noon, Inez Stepman talks with Melissa Chen about how to grapple with a geopolitically rising China, and about how the country goes into this civilizational clash hobbled by domestic insecurities about our open society. Chen and Stepman also discuss the balance between individualism and community, and how many are now seeking or actively creating political identities to replace more traditional ones.
Melissa Chen is the New York editor for
The Spectator USA, where she writes about the U.S.-China relationship, identity, and free speech, among other topics. She is the managing director of Ideas Beyond Borders, an organization that translates Enlightenment tracts into other languages, and on the advisory board of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism.
USNI News
Document: Department of the Navy Unmanned Campaign Framework
March 16, 2021 12:00 PM
The following is the March 16, 2021, Department of the Navy Unmanned Campaign Framework.
From the report
The National Defense Strategy (NDS) defines “the central challenge to U.S. prosperity and security as the reemergence of long-term, strategic competition” posed by Russia and China. It emphasizes that, “America’s military has no preordained right to victory on the battlefield.” The developing abilities of nearpeer competitors drive the need for increased Naval capability distributed over a wider area. In order to meet the challenges of the future and align with strategic goals defined in the Tri-Service Maritime Strategy, the CNO’s Navigation Plan, and the Commandant’s Planning Guidance, the Navy and Marine Corps must innovate and accelerate delivery of credible and reliable unmanned systems in conjunction with increasingly capable manned platforms into the fleet.
“Too often government-funded R&D fails to gain a commercial footing because the government technology pipeline is not connected with entrepreneurs and early-stage capital a great loss of economic and national security value to the United States,” said Simon Davidson, IQT Emerge executive vice president, in a statement. “IQT Emerge continues the IQT mission and pairs the organization’s sophistication in identifying technologies with potential commercial viability with the institutional knowledge on what it takes to build companies and bring products to market.”
The launch of IQT Emerge reflects a larger shift, initiated by the Trump administration in 2020, in how the U.S. intelligence community defends critical infrastructure and emerging technologies. National security agencies began collaborating with the private sector and moving more research and development projects in-house.
AlphaDogfight should scare the Air Force straight … into scaling AI efforts Capt. Jazmin Furtado and Capt. Chris Dylewski January 21 An AI pilot bested an elite U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, illustrating how humans are losing their edge over machines in more tasks. (Photoraidz/Getty Images) A few months ago, an AI pilot trounced an elite U.S. Air Force fighter pilot in a simulated dogfight. Sound like the stuff of sci-fi nightmares? If the Air Force continues on its current path, it is. When the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) concluded the AlphaDogfight competition in August, the Air Force experienced just how advanced AI systems have become.
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