Sentences with phrase «military weapons systems»

* Consumer product and military weapons systems development.

Deploy, use, and service a variety of military weapon systems, and successfully served in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2008 — 2009.

Not exact matches

The placement of the defensive weapons also comes on the heels of China's recent South China Sea installation of military jamming equipment, which disrupts communications and radar systems.

NATO officials, however, appear to still be wary of the deal and the looming introduction of a Russian weapons system into the military of one of their partner forces.

«No military system is 90 percent effective,» said Philip E. Coyle III, who once ran the Pentagon's weapons - testing program and recently left a White House security post.

On Tuesday, at an annual military parade in Tehran, Iran put on display new S - 300 air defense missile system, as well as other weapons seen under banners calling for «Death to Israel» in Persian.

Thus, military technocracy is to create military mega-machines to perfect the weapon systems that maximize destruction, even the total destruction of the whole humanity, in the name of the security.

Some of these components may be innocuous in themselves but, once outside EU control, they can be incorporated into weapons systems that may then be exported on to countries the EU would not otherwise supply military equipment to.»

Created by Dr. Alexander Leveringhaus, who specializes in moral responsibility and robotic weapons, this initiative analyses how militaries can design ethically responsible combat systems using increasingly sophisticated and potentially autonomous technology.

In 2014, Putin asked the Russian military to domestically manufacture 90 of Russia's 200 most frequently imported weapons systems by 2020 and to transition towards complete self - sufficiency as soon as possible.

Military spending on expensive major weapons systems built in large cities like aircraft, ships, and submarines, has grown much faster than military spending on personnel, (which has actually declined as military spending overall has surged), who frequently hail from ruraMilitary spending on expensive major weapons systems built in large cities like aircraft, ships, and submarines, has grown much faster than military spending on personnel, (which has actually declined as military spending overall has surged), who frequently hail from ruramilitary spending on personnel, (which has actually declined as military spending overall has surged), who frequently hail from ruramilitary spending overall has surged), who frequently hail from rural areas.

During the roundtable discussion, which was led by Rep. Stefanik, Vice Chair, House Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Readiness at the nonpartisan Oneonta Vets Club in Oneonta, Faso emphasized the need to strengthen our military, modernize our weapons systems and ensure our forces are well equipped around the globe — while also streamlining expensive and burdensome procurement procedures.

Liberal and conservative coalitions have also tried to kill military projects, such as particular weapons systems.

The biggest waste, I would suggest, lies in the Pentagon budget, which now stands at around 5 percent of GDP and finances two expensive wars, hundreds of overseas military bases, and overpriced service contracts and weapons systems.

Private military suppliers drive the procurement of unneeded weapons systems.

Like any good military unit, infectious bacteria have access to numerous weapons and efficient communication systems.

At the end of October, the aerospace company BAE Systems revealed that it is developing small, directed energy pulse weapons designed to be deployed on military drones.

Last month, a group of over 50 AI scientists, including those from UC Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute, signed an open letter to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), announcing a boycott against the university due to its recent partnership with South Korea's largest defense company, Hanwha System, to open a Research Center for the Convergence of National Defense and Artificial Intelligence, which will aim to «develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to be applied to military weapons, joining the global competition to develop autonomous arms.»

Instead it focuses more on exactly how screwed up the U.S. military's weapons - purchasing system was in the very recent past.

BZC's products are used to complete rescue operations and military insertion / extraction operations, move and transport cargo, and load weapons onto aircraft and ground - based launching systems.

The base budget covers programs that constitute the department's normal activities, such as the development and procurement of weapon systems and the day - to - day operations of the military and civilian workforce.

General Dynamics Corporation is one of the largest defense and aerospace contractors in the United States, with business areas in military and business aviation, combat vehicles, shipbuilding, weapons systems, and information technology systems.

For instance, the monetary system — based on military grade ammunition — is of little concern for the majority of the game, as ammo and weapons are easy enough to discover.

-- Defense System have 7 Weapons, each weapon can be upgraded the Power up to 5 times that created massive military power for Defender

Features: — post apocalyptic open world, which will immerse you in the atmosphere of the world that survived its end — diverse story missions and plenty optional additional jobs — intriguing comic story — variety of vehicles, from fast passenger to unstoppable truck — variety of weapons, designed for destroying your enemys and zombies — vehicle and weapon upgrade system — variety of enemys, among wich decayed corpses, selfish military and local bandits

In the multiplayer mode, there is a ranking system in which you can progress through various military ranks - each rank allows you access to a new variety of parts and weapons.

The exhibition includes Maisel's photographs and video projections based on his work at Dugway Proving Ground, a classified military setting in Utah's Great Salt Lake Desert devoted to testing and development of chemical and biological weapons and defense systems.

When the term national security comes up in Washington, people automatically think of expanded military budgets and more - advanced weapon systems.

If the services are indeed to use alternative fuels in tactical weapon systems, these fuels must be able to substitute for one or more of the three petroleum - based distillate fuels that currently support the majority of military operations: the two military jet fuels, JP - 8 and JP - 5 («JP» stands for «jet propellant»), and naval distillate (F - 76).

Lobby for an increase in these appropriations and a cut in military appropriations, pointing out that advanced weapons systems are useless in dealing with the new threats to our civilization.

A large segment of the U.S. 2006 military budget of $ 492 billion, accounting for half of the world total, goes to the development and production of new weapon systems.

In the near term, world militaries are considering autonomous weapon systems that can choose and eliminate targets.»

Unlike other large sectors of the economy such as retail, general manufacturing, media, or technology, the ~ $ 1.5 trillion aerospace, defence and government (ADG) market is driven by «programmes», often large and long - term activities such as those to develop and field a new type of commercial aircraft or weapon system, manage a government information technology architecture, or support military forces deployed overseas.

This follows earlier news that Russian arms manufacturer Kalishnikov is designing an autonomous small - arms weapon system for military use.

If we populate our military with autonomous weapons systems, our adversaries would adapt.

Discussions of the legal, military and ethical implications of these weapons among government and independent experts in the framework of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) have shown that there is broad agreement that human control over the critical functions of weapon systems must be retained.

Armed drones and other autonomous weapons systems with decreasing levels of human control are currently in use and development by high - tech militaries including the US, China, Israel, South Korea, Russia, and the UK.

Mines Action Canada, as a co-founder of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, believes that the way forward must lead to a pre-emptive ban on autonomous weapons systems as a tool to prevent humanitarian harm without damaging research and development on autonomy and robotics for military or civilian purposes.

The ICRC welcomed the increased attention paid to autonomous weapons systems with recent discussions of the technological capabilities, military intent, and legal and ethical issues they raise.

Several autonomous weapons systems with various degrees of human control are currently in use by high - tech militaries including the US, China, Israel, South Korea, Russia, and the UK.

Although autonomous weapons systems as described herein have not yet been deployed and the extent of their development as a military technology remains unclear, discussion of such questions must begin immediately and not once the technology has been developed and proliferated.

... We welcome the constructive ongoing discussions in the CCW on the technical, ethical, legal, operational and military aspects of lethal autonomous weapons systems.

Under «frontier issues,» the UN Secretary General's High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, remarked that: «Rapid advances in the civilian and military application of artificial intelligence should continue to give impetus for formal deliberations on lethal autonomous weapon systems within the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.»

On 5 March, physicist Dr. Mark Avrum Gubrud from the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) briefed the board for almost three hours on emerging military technologies, particularly autonomous weapons systems.

Only two nations have stated policy on autonomous weapons systems: a 2012 US Department of Defense directive permits the development and use of fully autonomous systems that deliver only non-lethal force, while the UK Ministry of Defence has stated that it has «no plans to replace skilled military personnel with fully autonomous systems.»

The technical sessions begins on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning with a review of the state of play on research and development of autonomous weapons systems as well as an exchange on the military rationale for autonomous functions in weapons systems.

Several autonomous weapons systems with various degrees of human control are currently in use by high - tech militaries, including CCW states China, the US, Israel, South Korea, Russia, and the UK.

Heather M. Roff of Arizona State University published the first publicly - available dataset tracking military autonomy, identifying 284 weapons systems with autonomous features.

They want to see the sale of military - grade weapons and high - capacity magazines banned, increased safety at schools and improvements to the mental health system.

Expertise in identification and acquisition of materials for military aircraft and aircraft weapons systems.