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Pentagon, (Oct. 29, 2024): Microchips enable virtually every military system, from ships, planes, tanks, long-range munitions, radar and communication gear to night vision, satellites, sensors — making them vital to the Defense Department.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks spoke today to industrial, government and academic leaders at the 2024 Microelectronics Commons Annual Meeting in Washington.
"Every day, from the Indo-Pacific to the North Atlantic to the Middle East and beyond — from the ocean floor to outer space to cyberspace — as American warfighters stand the watch, they depend on chips to help them defend our country, our allies and partners, and our interests," Hicks said.
Read more: WITH INDUSTRY HELP, DOD STRIVES TO BE LEADER IN MICROCHIP RESEARCH, PRODUCTION
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A rocket carrying a National Reconnaissance Office payload launches from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va., March 21, 2024. Photo by Brady Kenniston/Rocket Lab, Courtesy Photo
Pentagon, (Oct. 17, 2024): The National Reconnaissance Office remains focused on maintaining the United States' intelligence advantage amid rapid technological advancements and evolving threats, a senior leader from the agency said today.
Troy Meink, NRO's principal deputy director, said these forces, combined with growing stakeholder demands for real-time data, have created a generational change in how the agency innovates and deploys new technology to serve the warfighter and intelligence community partners.
Read more: NRO OFFICIAL DISCUSSES AGENCY'S FOCUS ON MAINTAINING U.S. INTELLIGENCE EDGE
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Ellen Lord, the former undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, and Heidi Shyu, right, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, speak during a discussion at the National Defense Industrial Association's Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C., Aug. 9, 2024. Photo by C. Todd Lopez, DOD
Pentagon, Aug. 9, 2024. For several decades now, autonomous systems including aircraft, ground vehicles and waterborne craft have proliferated. While there hasn't been a direct assault on a U.S. military base yet, autonomous systems remain a threat and something the Defense Department is seeking solutions for.
"If you look at the situation now, which is something easily predictable back in, I will say, two decades ago ... you're already seeing the increase in number of ... unmanned systems," said Heidi Shyu, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering. "With that increasingly growing, exponentially worldwide, the obvious thing we have to think about is how are we going to counter that. Because we already have unmanned systems that are intruding into our installations."
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Marine Corps Cpl. Brian Vile operates a drone as part of a counter-unmanned aircraft systems field test at Mount Bundey Training Area, Australia, July 11, 2024. Marines and Australian soldiers are using the drones to defend against aerial attacks. Photo by Marine Corps Cpl. Migel Reynosa Pentagon, July 19, 2024. The Defense Innovation Unit, which stood up in 2015, has proven that it can help solve military problems with commercial technology and make a difference on the battlefield, said, Doug Beck, director of DIU and senior advisor to the defense secretary.
The focus now at DIU is to deliver to the warfighter those most critical solutions at speed and scale to achieve true strategic effect, said Beck, who spoke at the Aspen Security Forum.
To get a firsthand understanding of the warfighters' needs, DIU personnel are embedding with the geographic combatant commands, U.S. Indo-Pacom Command and U.S. European Command, he said, noting that the Eucom team is helping to bring innovative capability to Ukraine.
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Unmanned Operation - A MANTAS T-38 unmanned surface vessel operates in the Arabian Sea, Dec. 4, 2021. Ongoing evaluations of new unmanned systems in U.S. 5th Fleet drives discovery, innovation, and integration into fleet operations. Your donations for yellow ribbon care package troop support boosts the morale of active duty deployed service members working on projects like this around the globe.