With billions of people around the world accessing platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Instagram, to name a few, social media has become a powerful force for political and cultural change, and a force that is more than capable of influencing global geopolitics. In the past three years alone, …
Read More »Artificial Intelligence(AI) enabling prediction and prevention of terrorist attacks
One of the most important threats to today’s civilization is terrorism, which has affected the quality of lives of people in the whole world. Terrorism is defined as the use of intentional indiscriminate and illegal power and violence for creating terror amongst the general population in order to gain some …
Read More »Military Sensors trends and technologies promise complete situational awareness under all weather, day/night, through natural and man-made obstructions
A Sensor is an electronic device that is used to measure some sort of physical parameters (e.g. temperature, pressure, light intensity, etc). The output of an electronic sensor is an electrical signal that is either analog or digital. Processing the sensor’s output can be done in hardware (using discrete electronic …
Read More »System of System’s (SOS) engineering for Integrated and Joint defence capability planning, Acquisition and development of Defense System of Systems (SOS)
Systems Engineering (SE) is defined as the process by which a customer’s needs are satisfied through the conceptualization, design, modeling, testing, implementation, and operation of a working system. Today, engineers and developers have fairly well codified the processes and techniques for building large, complex systems, and when executed properly, resulting …
Read More »Threat of AI enabled or Autonomous Nuclear weapons
AI is projected to create 11 trillion dollars of economic value in the next decade. This is driving vigorous AI race among countries led by US, China, Russia who are spending billions of dollars to assume leadership in its development and utilization for economic and military advantage. In Defense …
Read More »LRASM, an autonomous long-range, precision-guided, anti-ship missile designed for A2/AD threat environments.
China is fielding a large number of long-range of anti-ship ballistic and cruise missiles, strike aircraft, and submarines designed to overwhelm both US air bases and carrier strike groups. China is fielding an ASBM, referred to as the DF-21D that is a theater-range ballistic missile equipped with a maneuverable reentry …
Read More »Artificial Intelligence in the Military Training
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key driver for Industry 4.0, with the potential to disrupt numerous business verticals. The technology’s ability to perform human-like cognitive functions such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, planning, and self-correction, and to make decisions based on simulations drives its large-scale adoption. AI enables the creation …
Read More »Military race to develop autonomous and intelligent missiles and missile swarms to strike targets in anti-access, area-denial environment
Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers. A computer system able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. Machine learning is a subset of AI. AI has a …
Read More »Navies integrating AI into Naval vessels
The general definition of AI is the capability of a computer system to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition and decision-making. Machine Learning (ML) is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence which attempts to endow computers with the capacity of learning from data, so that …
Read More »DARPA SIGMA+ using advanced intelligence analytics to detect chemical, biological, and explosives threats
Since the invention of nuclear power, there have been numerous “accidents.” From Three Mile Island and Chernobyl to the more recent problems in Fukushima, it would seem nuclear power is not fully under our control. Recently a Chinese scientist has warned that the single mountain under which North Korea most …
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