On this week’s Technology Report, Sam Caucci, the founder and CEO of 1Huddle — an innovative workforce performance and training platform — discusses new contracts with the Air Force and Navy special operations commands, how training that is mentally challenging improves retention and learning outcomes, and the changing nature of work in the wake of the covid pandemic; and Justin Sherman, the founder of the DC research and advisory firm Global Cyber Strategies, discusses Russia’s hacking conference, the evolution of the Russian cyber ecosystem after global sanctions in response to Moscow’s war on Ukraine, Montana’s move to ban TikTok and the company’s countersuit, the right approach to regulating foreign-owned social media, and the flaws in the House bill that aims to limit China’s ability to develop undersea cables with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this week’s Technology Report, Don Burnette, the co-founder and CEO of Kodiak Robotics, discusses the Silicon Valley company’s innovative autonomous technologies that can transform existing commercial and military vehicles into uncrewed ones; and John Cofrancesco, founder and CEO of the Applied AI Company, discusses the right approach to regulating artificial intelligence, why many large companies want legislation to ensure a level competitive playing field, and analyses the public elements of Pentagon’s new classified cyber strategy with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this week’s Technology Report, C3 AI Founder, Chairman and CEO Tom Siebel discusses the step-change implications of generative artificial intelligence, the magnitude of potential society-altering dangers as well as sweeping benefits, the smart approach to regulation that curbs negative impacts without stifling innovation, the use of the technology in weapons particularly by nations like China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, how to think about AI threats in a world where the barriers to developing the technology are falling, the kind of declaratory strategies needed to deter adversaries from employing weaponized AI against the United States and its allies, efforts to harmonize now-scattershot Pentagon AI efforts, and his company’s growth in the DoD market with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this week’s Technology Report, Jason Salata, a retired US Navy captain and former US Special Operations Command and the US Naval Special Warfare Command spokesman who is now with the Provision Advisors public relations firm that oversees SOF Week’s media center, discusses key messages from US special operations leadership at this year’s gathering in Tampa, standout technologies from the show floor, and changing in the works for next year’s event to better connect companies with good ideas with program officials who can turn them into reality; and Emily Harding of the Center for Strategic and International Studies discusses the National Defense Science and Technology Strategy issued yesterday, how to turn the strategy into reality, the need for greater risk tolerance, the report she co-authored — “Seven Critical Technologies for Winning the Next War” — that theorizes on the nature of future wars America and its allies may have to fight and seven critical technologies needed to win, and how the Pentagon needs to think about artificial intelligence and its uses in everything from decision making to automated weaponry with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

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On this week’s Technology Report, Dale Swartz, a partner at the McKinsey consultancy specializing in technology, innovation and national security and co-author of the report — “Government CHIPS on the table: How higher DOD microelectronics funding is here to stay” — discusses the US investment in America’s semiconductor ecosystem vital for national security and economic prosperity; and from the Navy League’s annual Sea-Air-Space conference a discussion on the importance of live virtual constructive training with Schuyler Moore, the chief technology officer of US Central Command, Capt. Tony Then, USN, the former commander of the US Navy’s Destroyer Squadron 22, Maj. Joe Silverio, USAF, of the US Air Force’s Air Combat Command, and John Bell, the technical director at HII LVC Solutions — the leading provider of live virtual constructive training across DoD — with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.