Defense and aerospace companies launched an all-out offensive yesterday against any additional Pentagon budget cuts by a committee charged with reducing the federal deficit. Marion Blakey, president and chief executive officer of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) trade group, told reporters in Washington yesterday the new Second to None campaign won’t be a “typical...high-on-advertising, short-on-substance, short-term, inside-the-Beltway blitz which you often see…is often followed by a deafening silence after one piece of legislation or another is filed.” Rolling out the…
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The Pentagon should be using Anthropic‘s recently announced Mythos artificial intelligence model to spot gaps in cyber security, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said on Tuesda. “I think the thing that […]
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