{"id":1927946,"date":"2023-05-10T07:25:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T11:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/military-that-hustles-new-technologies-into-battle-first-will-win-future-wars-panel\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T07:27:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T11:27:57","slug":"military-that-hustles-new-technologies-into-battle-first-will-win-future-wars-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/military-that-hustles-new-technologies-into-battle-first-will-win-future-wars-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel: Winning future wars depends on military&#8217;s ability to quickly adopt new technologies."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmilitary-that-hustles-new-technologies-into-battle-first-will-win-future-wars-panel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1927946&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Revolutionizing Defense with Emerging Technologies<\/h2>\n<h3>Introduction<\/h3>\n<p>The potential of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-national-intelligence-director-im-concerned-about-bidens-china-policies-not-backed-by-intel\/\" title=\"Former National Intelligence Director: \u2018I\u2019m Concerned\u2019 About Biden\u2019s China Policies, Not Backed By Intel\">emerging technologies<\/a> like artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform the defense industry has been a hot topic of discussion in recent Congressional hearings. However, the Pentagon&#8217;s slow and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/military-that-hustles-new-technologies-into-battle-first-will-win-future-wars-panel\/\" title=\"Panel: Winning future wars depends on military's ability to quickly adopt new technologies.\">cumbersome procurement process poses<\/a> a significant challenge to the timely implementation of new systems and programs. To address this issue, the Department of Defense established the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) in 2015 to facilitate the integration of commercial technologies into military operations.<\/p>\n<h3>The DIU&#8217;s Evolution<\/h3>\n<p>Initially launched as an experimental program, the DIU was reorganized under then-Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in 2016 and elevated to &#8220;secretary-level&#8221; importance. Carter&#8217;s foresight in establishing the DIU and nurturing it from incubation to maturity was praised by panelists at a recent &#8220;Innovation in Defense Research and Acquisition&#8221; presentation organized by the Special Competitive Studies Project.<\/p>\n<h3>Current Developments<\/h3>\n<p>Despite being downgraded during the Trump administration, the DIU has regained its status as a direct report to the Secretary of Defense under Lloyd Austin. In April, Austin appointed Doug Beck, an Apple vice president and naval reserve captain, as DIU director. Beck and other panelists at the presentation emphasized the need to scale up the DIU to achieve speed and scale in delivering new technologies to the military.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The DIU has already successfully bridged the gap between the military and technology developers, rapidly prototyping solutions to real military problems. However, there is still a long way to go in revolutionizing defense with emerging technologies. By continuing to scale up the DIU, the defense industry can keep pace with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-look-at-ukraines-attack-on-russias-black-sea-fleet-headquarters\/\" title=\"A Look at Ukraine's Attack On Russia\u2019s Black Sea Fleet Headquarters\">rapid evolution<\/a> of technology and stay ahead of potential adversaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exponentially evolving technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning have been exhaustively discussed and debated over the winter and spring during Congressional hearings on President Joe Biden\u2019s $860 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) defense request. But one stubborn systemic disconnect threatens to disrupt the timely delivery of new systems and programs into weapons and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":1927947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[16435,13179,22770,3899,7396,8636,18258,6520,5902],"class_list":["post-1927946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-ability","tag-adopt","tag-depends","tag-future","tag-militarys","tag-panel","tag-technologies","tag-wars","tag-winning"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}