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You you need , you need to innovate to ,

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to survive and to stay ahead and to

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stay at the cutting edge and as a

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brigade , the first step towards

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artificial intelligence on the

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battlefield is aggregating our data .

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So I used to be an executive officer in

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an airborne , uh , rifle company for

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the 173rd . I'm an 11 Alpha infantry

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officer currently I am the director of

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data for the Bana Innovation team . Sky

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soldiers . Now I work in the Bana

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Innovation team , otherwise known as

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the BIT . I , I think that

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communication and , and our ability to

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proliferate and gather data . And that

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could be from UAS systems , from

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different sensors , or even from people

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from every piece of the battlefield

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using things like Starlink or Star

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shield terminals , new types of radios ,

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new types of computing power , uh ,

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innovation is just problem . Solving I

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think innovation at the brigade level

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is all about making soldiers more

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lethal . What makes the United States

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military one of the best militaries in

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the world is that we have the capacity

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to innovate . One of the best things

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that artificial intelligence offers is

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the ability to do things that humans

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aren't good at pattern recognition

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across millions of rows and and

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thousands of columns isn't something

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that a human can do . And I think . The

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173rd has done a great job of putting

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an emphasis on innovation and getting

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ahead and staying ahead , um , being

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able to protect troops or your resupply

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formations by doing it with a drone is

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awesome and you know it could save

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lives on the modern battlefield . We

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just like had non tactical UAS

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operators get certified to fly FPV

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drones that they themselves built . We

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had a resupplied drone which can carry

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up to like 200 kg of payload capacity

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carrying MREs to a trench and then

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dropping off the MREs and picking up a

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rescue Randy from the trench and taking

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that away . And it's , it's an

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octocopter like a UAS system that

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carries a massive amount of weight . We

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want to operate independently , we want

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to have our own procurement channels .

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We want to be able to manufacture on

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our own . The more that we can do on

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our own , the more self-sustaining we

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can be . You look at . Things that

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Google and and Meta and and Palantirer

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are doing that there's no reason that

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the army shouldn't be able to operate

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at that speed . We just all need to buy

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in , um , and innovate together

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innovation is not just , uh , a problem

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for a select group of individuals , uh ,

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in , in , in the brigade . Innovation

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is , uh , like something that anyone ,

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anyone can do anyone can innovate , you

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know , if you , if you see a problem ,

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just . Come up on the net and tell one

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of your leaders like , hey , this is a

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problem I wanted to change and uh

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that's that in itself is innovation .