All posts tagged "defence"

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  Biden picks first woman to lead the US Navy

  President Joe Biden has nominated admiral Lisa Franchetti to lead the US Navy. If confirmed, she would be the first woman service chief in the Pentagon and the first female

  • Posted July 25, 2023
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  Australia’s defence department sets 50% recruitment target for women in STEM

  Australia’s Department of Defence is working towards doubling the number of women hired through science, technology, engineering and mathematics recruitment programmes. The 50% target announced last week will apply to

  • Posted June 14, 2023
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  Agencies ‘don’t have the tools’ to head off ChatGPT threat to national security, warns Pentagon’s AI chief

  The US Department of Defense’s chief digital and AI officer Craig Martell said he is “scared to death” of the potential for generative artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT to deceive

  • Posted May 11, 2023
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  Services Australia exposed in robodebt deal controversy; UK education department scolded for data protection law breach: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Services Australia gave US$3.6m in additional work to prosecuted robodebt collector It has been

  • Posted November 10, 2022
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  Australia to increase military headcount by 30% as global security tensions rise

  The Australian Defence Force has committed to adding 18,500 personnel to its headcount. The 30% rise marks the biggest increase in peacetime, according to the federal government. This will take

  • Posted March 15, 2022
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  UK creates science & tech office with $10bn funding pledge

  Boris Johnson’s government has announced a pivot towards science and technology as a means to deliver “solutions for the public good”, in a bid to capitalise on the UK’s success

  • Posted June 25, 2021
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  Air Commodore Paul Godfrey to lead UK’s new Space Command

  Air Commodore Paul Godfrey OBE from the Royal Air Force (RAF) will become the first leader of the UK’s new Space Command. The new organisation – due to be formed

  • Posted February 5, 2021
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  US defense must have foundations for AI integration by 2025, new report says

  The US Department of Defense (DoD) must set “an ambitious goal” to have the foundations for widespread integration of artificial intelligence (AI) across defence in place by 2025, according to

  • Posted February 4, 2021
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  The Defence and Security Accelerator: finding innovation for a safer UK

  The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) finds and funds exploitable innovation to support UK defence and security quickly and effectively. DASA links the Armed Forces, Government departments and security organisations

  • Posted November 9, 2020
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  Use your intelligence: former UK spy chief on good decisions and poor information

  These days, the public discourse is awash with fake news; but intelligence operatives have always worked in an environment of uncertainty and incomplete data. At a lecture last week, former

  • Posted November 6, 2020
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