Georgetown University Center for Security and Emerging Technology Archives

Georgetown University Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Tech workers don’t hate the military that much — most don’t even really care

A new study deals a blow to the narrative that Silicon Valley doesn't want to work with the Military.

Nov 17, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

Army robot — U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to Bravo Company, 54th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade prepare the Dragon Runner 10 robot for operation in Grafenwoehr Training Area during the 2019 Saber Junction exercise in Germany. (DOD / Spc. Ryan Lucas)

DOD must pay more attention to building people’s trust in AI, researchers say

The Pentagon plans to use AI to assist on the battlefield, not to replace humans entirely. But to successfully pair human and machine, the military needs to…

Oct 16, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

Chief of Staff of the Army, Gen. James C. McConville, testifies before the House Armed Services Committee, in Washington D.C., Mar. 3, 2020. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. James Harvey)

Army ‘aggressively pursuing’ unmanned ground system, but will it run into familiar roadblocks?

The Army is "aggressively pursuing" AI programs to remove drivers from ground vehicles, and from harms way. But will it work?

May 5, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

White House aims to answer WHO’s coronavirus questions using natural language processing

The Office of Science and Technology Policy released a database of about 29,000 scholarly articles for the tech community to mine for answers.

Mar 16, 2020 By Dave Nyczepir