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(USA) US Army’s newest tracked vehicle will undergo initial operational test in early 2022 (Defense News)

Jen Judson The Army has scheduled the initial operational test for its newest tracked vehicle to begin the second quarter of fiscal 2022, a spokesperson for the...

(Turkey) Turkey’s Baykar begins designing AI-powered combat drone (Defense News)

Burak Ege Bekdil A Turkish drone maker has begun the conceptual design phase of what it hopes will become the country’s first combat drone. https://www.c4isrnet.com/artificial-intelligence/2021/03/01/turkeys-baykar-begins-designing-ai-powered-combat-drone/

(USA) NORAD is using artificial intelligence to see the threats it used to miss (Defense News)

Nathan Strout The U.S. military command charged with watching and protecting North American airspace is now using artificial intelligence to detect the threats that previously...

(USA/Ukraine) US announces $125 million in military aid for Ukraine (Defense News)

Aaron Mehta and Howard Altman The Pentagon announced Monday a $125 million military aid package for Ukraine, the first of its kind under the Biden administration. https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2021/03/01/us-announces-125-million-in-military-aid-for-ukraine/

(USA) New Senate defense appropriations chairman talks nuclear modernization, defense cuts and earmarks (Defense News)

Joe Gould If progressives aim to cut the U.S. Defense Department’s top-line budget or the ground-based leg of the nuclear triad, they’re likely see pushback from a...

(Canada) Canada’s CAE buys L3Harris military training unit, with eyes on US programs (Defense News)

Aaron Mehta Canadian firm CAE announced Monday its intent to purchase the military training arm of L3Harris Technologies, a $1.05 billion move that will double...

(Singapore) Singapore’s navy tests a new layer of surveillance: unmanned vessels (Defense News)

Mike Yeo Singapore is testing unmanned surface vessels with a locally developed, AI-driven navigation algorithm that could be used for maritime security operations in the...

The populists will not win (Charles Hankla, Marco Emanuele, The Science of Where Magazine)

The Science of Where Magazine meets Charles Hankla, associate professor at the Georgia State University In your article “Will Biden’s America change course on China and...

(USA/China) Air Force general worried US won’t field sixth-gen fighter in time to beat China (Defense News)

Valerie Insinna Since September, when the U.S. Air Force disclosed that it had flown a full-scale demonstrator of its future fighter, the defense community has been hungry...

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