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Automation Critical In Managing Future Fight, Kendall Says

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, December 4th, 2023

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Automation Critical In Managing Future Fight, Kendall Says

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall. Photo: DoD.

Automation based on artificial intelligence combined with human supervision to manage hundreds of aircraft and their weapons against as many targets will be critical to warfighting in the future, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said last week. “And we have to do that as efficiently as possible,” Kendall said December 2 at the Reagan National Defense Forum. “That is something that with emerging technologies, and we call it AI but it's automation basically, still with human oversight, you can aspire…

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