The Air Force Is Making an App That Basically Does What a General Doe

[discocrisco01]

The Air Force designing a new app with some fancy features as documented by Nextgov

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Washington—Can an app help decide what jets to scramble when Russia aircraft head its way?

Tentatively titled Arachnid, the nascent decision-support tool is a product of DARPA’s Adapting Cross-domain Kill-webs program, The vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs and other service vice chiefs were briefed on the app on Monday as part of a trip by the Pentagon’s Joint Requirements Oversight Committee, or JROC.

“You identify a threat and it's supposed to give you multiple options for what effect do you want to achieve on that threat,” said Lt. Col. Antony “Bigfoot” Braun, director Of operations at the Western Air Defense Sector of the Washington Air National Guard. “It says, ‘You want to scramble this base over here? You want to scramble this base over there? Here are the pros and cons and pluses and minuses associated with your timelines and all of those things.’”

[Generic Other]

1. From the power of the AI's save us!

Bejeebus and holy hell.

[abqtommy]

3. +100...

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[Mysterian]

2. More like an app that does what a general staff does

Presenting various courses of action to the boss for a decision.

[Generic Other]

4. It will be this

Until it’s not. Rule of unintended consequences.

[Layzeebeaver]

5. SkyNet v0.1a

Early access!! Lol

[Firestorm49]

6. Fine and dandy - until it's hacked! We can't protect our cyber security now.

When it’s too late, somebody will discover that the program was altered to show that Jamaica directed bombers to the US.

Human minds, though not perfect, are my first choice.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. WOPR

WarGames — WOPR
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WOPR scene from WarGames.

[iemitsu]

8. Entering the robot phase of US security.