Air Force’s AI ambitions mean simplifying its tangle of networks
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—The Air Force is eager to use AI widely but is still struggling with the infrastructure to make it all work, said the service’s top buyer for battle-network systems.“One of my biggest challenges is the underlying infrastructure that actually makes it all work,” said Maj. Gen. Luke Cropsey, the Air Force’s program executive officer for command, control, communications, and battle management, or C3BM, during the Air and Space Forces Association&rs
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