Cold, wet and sandy… as God intended. 🇺🇸 "The map is not the territory." A(n) - Bounded Continuity Layer - @AUTOWAR25
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I've been waiting for this. @jockowillink made a movie – the way movies used to be made. The culture war against boys is not lost.
Everyone, "you can't make computers with American parts and labor!"
Palmer Lucky, "go f'k yourself."
Today, @anduriltech and @qualcomm announced a new laptop that will eventually be 100% made in America, a “first step” toward creating a market for U.S.-manufactured components and total technological self-sufficiency.
Building computers in America should be a matter of “national pride,” says @PalmerLuckey.
@JonasYDu reports 👇
This week's Open Opportunities post.
AUTOWAR25 Open Opportunities, week of Oct. 26. Open defense-innovation calls for autonomy and defense tech. 🧵
64 calls are open this week, 1 new. Newest: a Navy RFI on training, simulation and mission-rehearsal systems for Group 1 and 2 drones. Closing soonest: SOCOM's maritime survivability (TMS/TVEE) Vulcan call tonight at 10 PM ET, three Vulcan calls Tuesday, and four Air Force small-drone and counter-drone RFIs plus DIU's I-MEPDIS power call on Wednesday. Links in every post below.
Good morning! The AUTOWAR25 Morning Edition is up.
We're going to be playing with story mix the rest of the week – trying to weed out a little of the repetition of the same stories day-to-day.
AUTOWAR25 Morning Edition, Tuesday, Oct. 27. The top 25 autonomous-warfare stories, ranked. 🧵
Russia hit Kyiv overnight with ballistic missiles and 280 attack drones, striking a university campus and the city's Southern Bridge. U.S. Marines flew live-warhead attack drones into targets at Japan's Camp Fuji for the first time, and Saudi air defenses downed Houthi drones and missiles. Links in every post below.
Because at any one moment, it’s a one-to-one ratio, man to drone. The technology will produce diminishing returns.
*The only people I've talked to that are remotely on the right path are not military. It's surprising actually.
Two controversial statements:
1) FPV has peaked as a technology – even as the world ramps up production and training. It will fade in importance starting today.
2) Making weapons “smarter” is actually the wrong (next) objective.
No matter how much compute we put on an effector, there will always be another 'dark spot in the woods.' Another unknown. Another reason to stop and ask a human. Another distraction from the larger mission.
We keep putting more autonomous weapons into the field, only to put a leash on every one. The warfighters have become professional dog walkers – watching what every dog sniffs.
That type of architecture will never scale. Smarter weapons are not enough. We need operational continuity.
Why haven’t autonomous drones fully replaced human FPV operators on the battlefield? Luke Allen (co-founder/CTO of @allencontrol discusses a key issue.
Computer vision can recognize a vehicle or person, but battlefield targets aren’t always visually identifiable. A bunker might look like nothing more than a dark spot in the woods. Identifying it as a target requires intelligence and context that an autonomous system may not have.
The American news media is the worst…
Have you met European news media?
🔴#ÚLTIMAHORA Detenido un joven de 26 años por agresión sexual a una mujer de 22 en la acampada de la Puerta del Sol
abc.es/espana/madrid/detenid…
6 months ago, I would have been inclined to disagree with the creation of the 4 star command. After personally witnessing the status quo, the gatekeeping, and the absolute lack of followthrough on SecWar directives, I’m 100% for the command… as long as it’s run by an absolute monster against old guard.