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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. Under Work, who prioritized outreach to small tech firms and Silicon Valley, Mears advised the Defen...

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 service did not use automatic transcription or translation in Afghanistan in the 2000s, relying on n...

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

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