Silicon Valley venture capital blowing up the US defense industry
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The U.S. Department of Defense is on track to award its pivotal Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract by the end of the year, after missing a previous deadline, a Pentagon official said.
Pentagon on track for $9 billion contract award after abandoning JEDI
SpaceX Starlink satellites twice came too close, China tells UN chief
H/T: China Space Station conducted evasive manoeuvres to avoid collisions with Elon Musk’s Starlink statelites (archived)
What they leave out:
The Air Force And SpaceX Are Teaming Up For A ‘Massive’ Live Fire Exercise
SpaceX Starlink Impresses Air Force Weapons Buyer In Big Live-Fire Exercise
SpaceX Exec Says Company Would Launch A Weapon Into Space In ‘Defense Of This Country’
Pentagon cancels JEDI contract and plans more advanced cloud-based warfare platform
A primary concern of the Pentagon is to maintain technological superiority over international rivals such as Russia and China. According to Peter Asaro, a professor at the New School in New York and a cofounder of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, “The advanced militaries are pushing the envelope of these technologies. They will proliferate rapidly.”
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