Israel sets up new department to boost development of AI and autonomy
Israel will continue to develop autonomy for its weapons and platforms as it brings together defence personnel, academia and industry.
Navies must contend with the same cyber threat as other military services. However, there are unique aspects to the shipboard environment, from the complex mix of onboard systems to the nature of naval missions, which often require the platforms to operate largely independently for long periods of time.
Cyber is today a war-fighting domain, and therefore a contested environment, according to David Weddel, director of Lockheed Martin Navy and US Marine Corps maritime government affairs, who previously worked in the US Navy's Senior Executive Service, most recently as assistant deputy chief of naval operations for information dominance.
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Israel will continue to develop autonomy for its weapons and platforms as it brings together defence personnel, academia and industry.
Clavister CyberArmour, an integrated defence cybersecurity system, will be used on BAE Systems Hägglunds’ CV90 platform in deployments with a Scandinavian country, as well as in an eastern European nation.
The tactical satellite (TacSat) is an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system and will participate in exercises in 2025.
The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
DARPA’s Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC) programme was set up to develop an autonomous tactical network and enable critical data flow in contested environments.
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