By Geoff Fein Any plan to sacrifice a DDG-1000 to buy other ships could impact the Navy's surface combatant lines as the service begins developing new classes of ships, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) said. "I am very concerned we do not disrupt our combatant lines," CNO Adm. Gary Roughead told lawmakers yesterday. "Right now we are developing a new fleet of ships. If you look across from submarines to combatants to amphibious ships, we are introducing all new…
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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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Two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), have introduced the Airpower Acceleration Act, which would authorize multi-year procurements of […]
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