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The Pentagon’s key research arm is leading a new initiative to produce resources and assets designed to help its personnel approach and adopt disruptive and emerging artificial intelligence technologies more cautiously and responsibly, according to its chief. “We are trying to flesh out the recipe environment to focus on something we call ELSI — so the ethical, legal and societal implications of our new technology,” Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Director Stefanie Tompkins said this week at the NATO to the Future micro-summit hosted by Capital Factory. https://lnkd.in/eKKGPhaV

NATO seeks to confront the growing "pressure of hybrid war." Brandi Vincent talked to officials at the Washington summit about the alliance's approach: https://lnkd.in/ejC6SGkA

The Senate Armed Services Committee wants answers from Army, Navy and Air Force acquisition executives about their plans to scale the fielding of autonomous counter-drone weapons for U.S. conventional forces. A report accompanying the panel’s version of the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, which was released this week, highlighted members’ concerns about where things stand. https://lnkd.in/ei2hwVAw

Air Force issues presolicitation for next-gen target tracking https://lnkd.in/eJfWu7Qt

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The new NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training, and Education Centre (JATEC) being set up in Poland to help the alliance strategically apply lessons directly from the battlefield as the war provoked by Russia in 2022 wages on, is expected to be fully operational in the next year. In an interview on the sidelines of the Washington Summit on Thursday, a spokesperson for Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs shared new details with DefenseScoop about this in-the-works collaborative knowledge hub, which NATO leadership has been broadly hinting at launching in recent months. https://lnkd.in/eAnJnnWJ

In a move to collectively confront adversarial threats to NATO’s communications and computer networks that continue to intensify, allies are set to formalize and unveil plans this week for the creation of a new, first-of-its-kind integrated cyber defense center, the White House revealed. On the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington on Wednesday, a senior official from the alliance familiar with these plans briefed DefenseScoop on leaders’ strategic vision for the new cyber hub, which will be set up at the coalition’s military headquarters in Mons, Belgium. https://lnkd.in/eXB8FYMK

A group of NATO countries are set to begin implementing a new project aimed at improving the alliance’s ability to quickly share intelligence gathered by space-based assets operated by both member nations and the commercial sector. Seventeen NATO members signed a memorandum of understanding for the Alliance Persistence Surveillance from Space (APSS) program as part of the annual NATO summit being held in Washington this week, the alliance announced Tuesday. Members will now move into a five-year implementation phase of the project, during which allies will contribute more than $1 billion “to leverage commercial and national space assets, and to expand advanced exploitation capacities,” according to a press release. https://lnkd.in/e3DY9Mag

Amid the Department of Defense’s all-out push to adopt a zero-trust security framework across its enterprise by 2027, Senate lawmakers want to make sure that “internet of military things” hardware is included in that. The Senate Armed Services Committee on Monday released the full text and report for its version of the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act with a number of cybersecurity provisions included in it related to zero trust — a widely recognized, cloud-based concept that assumes an adversary has already gained access to a network and therefore looks to limit further movement internally by requiring constant monitoring and authentication of users and their devices as they pass from one part of a network to another. https://lnkd.in/eqp8d32V