The Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Division at the Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. (Air Force photo) Silicon Valley might not like the idea of war, Lt. Col.

At Google’s campus in Mountain View, California, executives are trying to assuage thousands of employees protesting a contract with the Pentagon’s flagship artificial-intelligence initiative, Project ...

Remember Project Maven? It was the Department of Defense artificial intelligence initiative that hit the headlines when Google staff protested at being asked to build software that would improve drone ...

Maven is designed to be that pilot project, that pathfinder, that spark that kindles the flame front of artificial intelligence across the rest of the [Defense] Department. Air Force Lt. Gen. Jack ...