The Army Team That Is Trying to See, and Shape, the Future
By Patrick Tucker
June 26, 2020
The team’s scientists are charting how advances in various fields will unlock more advances, out to 2050.
An eight-month-old team at U.S. Army Futures Command is putting a 21st-century spin on a Cold War idea: employing technology scientists and watchers to forecast trends and help prepare for war in coming decades.
Like Herman Kahn at RAND in the 1940s, Team Ignite scans the technological horizon for upcoming advances in electronics, artificial intelligence, space, biotech, and more. Its forecasts, informed by data and machine learning, are intended to help the Army arm, organize, and train itself for conflicts around 2040 to 2050.
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/06/army-team-trying-see-and-shape-future/166496/
