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Dunlap Offers Joint Warfighting Construct Glimpse In part two of our exclusive video interview, Preston Dunlap gives a sneak peek at what the key Joint Warfighting Construct, expected in December, might look like.

Learn By Losing: Give AI To OPFOR First The best way to show US troops the power of new technology like artificial intelligence, one general said, is to let them suffer defeat at its hands — in training exercises.

EXCLUSIVE Navy Makes Major JADC2 Push, Linking Sensors & Shooters Recent exercises like RIMPAC and Valiant Shield have tested some of this new data sharing. "There's a couple of ships on the bottom of the Pacific right now from those exercises that were demonstrating some of those concepts," said Vice Adm. Jeffrey Trussler.

Army Creates New Units To Use Iron Dome The two air & missile defense batteries will be based at Fort Bliss, Texas, with the first Iron Dome weapons systems arriving from Israeli manufacturer Rafael by the end of the year.

Dunlap Unveils First 'Global' ABMS Exercise Video interview: Dunlap says the F-35, the F-22, "even a KC-46 tanker" and ground assets will be able to share data in fiscal 2022.

QinetiQ Delivers Armed Scout Robot To Army: RCV-L The Robotic Combat Vehicle (Light), which can shoot missiles, launch mini-drones, and spot targets for artillery, combines a Marine Corps-tested unmanned vehicle with Army weapons and autonomy software.

Project Convergence: Its Success Could Draw Army Astray While Project Convergence's first big test, the Army's "experiment at scale for a combined arms operations," was deemed a great success, the service must resist the urge to scale-up so rapidly that the events lose their value as experiments or become a fat target for budget cutters. The convergence tests, linking weapons, sensors, systems and…

Starting Dec. 1, Cybersecurity Is No Longer Optional "This is the start of a new day in the Department of Defense where cybersecurity, as we've been saying for years is foundational for acquisitions, we're putting our money where our mouth is. We mean it," Katie Arrington says.

Air Force To Launch 4G LTE At 20 More Bases Next Month "While we're all focused on 5G, and we've got a lot of possibilities in 5G, we also know 5G is not an endpoint," said Dan Massey, one of three 5G program leads at OUSDR&E. "So, what goes beyond 5G?"

DES: Multi-Billion Dollar Effort To Modernize DoD's 'Fourth Estate' An exclusive Breaking Defense interview with Don Means, DISA's Defense Enclave Services Executive, on the DES network modernization effort for independent DoD agencies and commands.

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