Month: May 2021

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Information Warfare

Video: U.S. Navy looks to up its IW Game | Defense News

According to Vice Adm. Jeff Trussler, the US Navy is set to test Information Warfare Cells later this year. The addition of information warfare composite commanders at the carrier strike group level sparked the concept. Since 2017, the Navy has assigned an information warfare commander to each strike group, who serves as a focal point for the strike group commander in integrating disparate facets of information warfare, such as the electromagnetic spectrum, cyberspace, intelligence, and oceanographic operations.

Source: https://www.defensenews.com/video/2021/05/10/us-navy-looks-to-up-its-iw-game/

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Gaming

Opinion: The most successful games are just a tool players use to create fun | Esports Observer

Credit: Nintendo

Esports have exploded in popularity in recent years. Every company wants to implement a gaming plan, which means a lot of people are looking in from the outside. But what distinguishes esports from all other forms of entertainment? Yes, gaming is entertaining, but it also serves as an open-ended resource for players to build special shared experiences. Games offer players the freedom to choose how they want to spend their gaming time. This means that games are resources that encourage us to have fun by providing us with a degree of freedom that we do not have in any other aspect of life.

Source: https://esportsobserver.com/opinion-success-tools-fun/

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Drones

Jamming strikes OSCE drones tracking Russian forces | Breaking Defense

An OSCE drone in Ukraine

After its GPS was jammed, a drone run by a group tracking the war in eastern Ukraine made an emergency landing. This isn’t the first time this issue has arisen; since March, OSCE drones have experienced increased levels of GPS signal interference, which have affected both of their GPS receivers. Moreover, the EW attacks increased this spring, coinciding with Moscow’s deployment of 110,000 troops along the Ukrainian border, raising fears in Kiev and the West that Russian forces would invade Ukraine.

Source: https://breakingdefense.com/2021/05/jamming-strikes-osce-drones-tracking-russian-forces/

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Cyber Security

Air Force cyber school will add online training tool | C4ISRNET

U.S. Cyber Command Public Affairs

In its upcoming curriculum, the Air Force will be introducing the Persistent Cyber Training Environment for its students. The Persistent Cyber Training Environment (PCTE) is an online training platform that enables soldiers from the US Cyber Command to sign in anywhere in the world for individual or community training and mission training sessions. PCTE’s long-term objective is to serve as the training ground for the cyber mission army. The services have mainly used PCTE for active-duty unit training and drills to date.

Source: https://www.c4isrnet.com/cyber/2021/05/05/air-force-cyber-school-will-add-online-training-tool/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EBB%2005.06.21&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief

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Artificial Intelligence

Tough Conditions and Contested Communication Are Forcing the US Military To Reinvent AI | Defense One

The US Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, is collaborating with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, on new projects and experiments to introduce artificial intelligence to operators operating in areas where the computational resources and data needed to operate commercial AI applications aren’t available. This entails fully re-inventing artificial intelligence from the ground up and gaining entirely new insights into how humans interact with it. With this, SOCOM is creating an entirely new concept of artificial intelligence to determine which problems operators face could be solved with a small amount of AI.

Source: https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/05/how-tough-conditions-and-contested-communication-are-forcing-us-military-reinvent-ai/173833/