Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

The US is still great at designing chips but has offshored the ability to build prototypes, which slows innovation and risks IP theft, said OSD’s Dev Shenoy.

With Large Language Models, “you can make more of everything — misinformation, disinformation — but it doesn't mean it'll be very good,” said Clint Watts, general manager of the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center.

Boeing's approach goes beyond Chinese experiments with space-based Quantum Key Distribution and could enable ultra-precise timing and sensing, said chief engineer Jay Lowell.

“We're going to do our best to disprove anybody who steps through our door,” said DARPA’s Joe Altepeter, “[but if] you convince my team, we will be your advocate inside the government, in rooms you can’t go.”

“I describe PWSA, the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, as the Android model,” said Space Development Agency director Derek Tournear. “If we get vendor lock, if only one works, or if they can't talk to each other, that falls apart pretty quickly.”

As her signature “Open DAGIR” initiative seeks to bring in smaller, innovative software firms, “we’ve got to be a lot more explicit” in contracting langauge to protect their intellectual property and data rights, said Chief Digital & AI Officer Radha Plumb.

The new “Advanced Battle Manager” for the widely used Forward Area Air Defense (FAAD) command-and-control system was field-tested at Yuma Proving Grounds this summer, the company says.

New Army policy on “enabling modern software development” actually doubles down on some of DoD’s worst dysfunctions, argues Warren Katz, chairman of the Alliance for Commercial Technology in Government, violating the spirit – and perhaps the letter – of the law.

The aerospace titan wants to combine decades of detailed engineering data and test results with cutting-edge AI analysis to work out bugs in its designs before it builds them.

In the tech race with China, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan argued, American ethics aren’t a hindrance: “It's a little bit counterintuitive, [but] ensuring security and trustworthiness will actually enable us to move faster, not slow us down.”