US Army Wants Its Weapons Systems to Talk to Each Other
A US Army soldier pilots a drone during a simulated exercise Hohenfels, Germany.
Photographer: Alex Kraus/BloombergArmy Secretary Dan Driscoll is assembling top defense contractors as well as Palantir Technologies Inc. and Anduril Industries Inc. in a bid to get their weapons to communicate better with each other and to more closely integrate AI.
The initiative, dubbed the “Right to Integrate Hackathon,” was inspired by a recent trip Driscoll took to Germany where he saw for himself an age-old problem: The Army’s technology often operates in isolation. Integrating systems typically requires custom engineering work, slowing operations and limiting how quickly new tools can be deployed.