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Kurilla Looks to Use Artificial Intelligence to Improve Targeting

Kurilla Looks to Use Artificial Intelligence to Improve Targeting
Two F-35Bs drop two, 1000-pound GBU-32s on an AI-derived target at Ft. Bragg, N.C. during the Scarlet Dragon 3 exercise in June last year (U.S. Army Photo)

Army Lt. Gen. Michael Kurilla, the commander of the XVIII Airborne Corps and the Biden administration's nominee to head U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), wants to use artificial intelligene (AI) to improve targeting in the CENTCOM area of responsibility. Before Kurilla's nomination hearing on Feb. 8, in response to a policy question from the Senate Armed Services Committee on what the U.S. and other countries could do to counter Iran's conventional military might, Kurilla wrote that "we must continue investing in…

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