George Muellner, president of Boeing’s Advanced Systems unit, says the company has restructured over the past year to align with the defense market. “We had a good year,” he told reporters at a company briefing at AFA’s Air & Space Conference in Washington, D.C., “but the DOD market is shrinking.” His unit is now focused on generating new business by stretching out to new customers—Coast Guard, civil agencies, and international—and offering fast-turnaround demonstrations of what technologies the company can offer. “We are increasing our ability to rapidly prototype,” he said. “In the last years, we’ve lost the rapid” aspect of that approach.
Concerned about how artificial intelligence might be used to generate target lists or operational plans, lawmakers want to expand limits on autonomous weapons to address mission planning and target selection. The House Armed Services Committee's version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization bill would direct the Pentagon to revise Defense…