Marine requirement for lightweight counter-drone tech to be released in coming months

WASHINGTON — A new requirement for handheld counter-drone capabilities aimed at taking down small unmanned aerial systems is coming soon, a Marine official told Breaking Defense today.  Such counter-unmanned aerial systems are lightweight tools that can be attached to a Marine’s person, Lt. Col R.M. Barclay, Marine Air Command and Control System branch head, said…

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Risk as design input: The Eight-Factor Risk Framework for cognitive operations

Risk in cognitive operations is not additive. It is multiplicative. A missile strike has a defined blast radius, effects are immediate, observable, and bounded. Cognitive operations have none of these characteristics. Messages spread through networks in ways no one fully controls. Attribution may be ambiguous or deliberately obscured. Cognitive effects may unfold over weeks, months,…

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Pentagon workers vibe-code 100,000 AI ‘agents’ to use on unclassified networks

WASHINGTON — Military personnel and Defense Department civilians have used a version of Google Gemini’s Agent Designer to create over 100,000 semi-autonomous AI agents in less than five weeks since the tool became available, a Pentagon official told Breaking Defense. “We’ve seen remarkable adoption since its launch, with over 103,000 agents built and a total…

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