Gen. John D.W. Corley, the Air Force vice chief of staff, believes that technology is indispensable to defeating terrorism, shaping the decisions of other countries, and preventing non-state actors from using weapons of mass destruction, reports the Montgomery Advertiser in covering the Air Force Information Technology Conference in Montgomery, Ala. According to the newspaper, “thousands of industry players” absorbed the message.
Unmanned aerial vehicles and autonomous aircraft may provide a solution to operating in heavily contested domains such as the Taiwan Straits, according to a panel of expert who suggested operationalizing artificial intelligence for such purposes sooner rather than later. The group gathered virtually to help launch the Mitchell Institute for…