There's No Turning Back on AI in the Military

For Countless Americans, the United States military epitomizes nonpareil technological advantage. Thankfully, in many cases, we live up to it.

But our present digital reality is quite different, even sobering. Fighting terrorists for nearly 20 years after 9/11, we remained a flip-phone military in what is now a smartphone world. Infrastructure to support a robust digital force remains painfully absent. Consequently, service members lead personal lives digitally connected to almost everything and military lives connected to almost nothing. Imagine having some of the world’s best hardware—stealth fighters or space planes—supported by the world’s worst data plan.