Key House committee passes divisive $886 billion national security spending bill
One Republican-backed amendment funds a special inspector general for Ukraine spending, while a Democrat-backed add-on targets “excessive contractor payments.”
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One Republican-backed amendment funds a special inspector general for Ukraine spending, while a Democrat-backed add-on targets “excessive contractor payments.”
At the moment, “generative” AI systems have “limited utility” for the US military, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said, but could help with some tasks if applied “in an ethical way.”
“They were very interested in our plane in the past, but to be honest with you, we are not in touch with them anymore,” Bosco da Costa Junior told Breaking Defense during the Paris Airshow. “I don’t have any kind of open conversation with them.”
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With a GOP-controlled House and a Democrat-controlled Senate, nothing in the bill is final until the last minute conference negotiations are completed, but here are the key issues to watch.
New Delhi’s adherence to the accords represents a boost to US efforts to rally allies to help counter China’s expansion of its own civil and military space activities, as well as Beijing’s use of space as a soft-power tool on the glob…
CEO Bill Lynn described the firm’s recent experience going public and its narrowed focus on four key growth areas.
Eurodrone is a four-nation European consortium, involving Germany, France, Spain and Italy, which aims to develop an unmanned aerial system for operation in a non-segregated airspace.
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