Tag: military
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My grandfather was mildly obsessed with organizing and documenting the history of his life: a memoir about a career in the military from 1938 to ~1975, growing up in a Depression era Oklahoma “dirt farm.” There was also geology. I think all old people have that project. Us soon to be old Gen-X’ers have more…
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Related to your interests – Week of March 2nd, 2025
The Links Claude, without me asking, rewrote many of my original description below. Enjoy! Pentagon Leverages AI in Iran Strikes Amid Feud With Anthropic – One artillery unit doing the work of 2,000 staff with a team of just 20 people. Anthropic didn’t want their model used for this; the Pentagon used it anyway. The…
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How Ukraine’s Killer Drones Are Beating Russian Jamming – “A missile worth perhaps a million dollars can kill maybe 12 or 20 people. But for one million dollars, you can buy 10,000 drones, put four grenades on each, and they will kill 1,000 or even 2,000 people or destroy 200 tanks.”
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What is an Authority to Operate (ATO)? – Governance in the military.
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Pair Programming is a great fit for large organizations because of this one unexpected benefit. CLICK NOW.
I have another video today. You’ve heard of pair programming and you probably think it’s bonkers. Not many people benefit from this practice. Here, I go over how teams in the US military have been using pair programming to improve how they do software and spread that change to other teams. Some real DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION!…
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Link: Cyber Airmen fuel innovation
Any problems discovered in the software can be more easily corrected, a small failure being preferable to correcting the shortfalls of an entire software suite. Changes requested by the customer can sometimes be delivered in just a couple days. Prior to Jigsaw, the tanker mission planners would use whiteboards to plot out their fueling rendezvous.…
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Link: ‘No longer an experiment’ — DIUx becomes DIU, permanent Pentagon unit
‘“There is no doubt in my mind that DIUx will not only continue to exist, it will actually — it will grow in its influence and its impact on the Department of Defense,” Mattis said in a press conference.’ Original source: ‘No longer an experiment’ — DIUx becomes DIU, permanent Pentagon unit
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Link: Start a nuclear war? There’s an app for that – US military teams up with Silicon Valley to revolutionise the battlefield
‘And they ended up saving $1million in fuel per week – but more importantly speeding up decision making when time is of essence. “We paired with them and we taught them this new way of building software and we built the software application side-by-side with them,” Mr Salisbury said.’ Original source: Start a nuclear war?…
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