{"id":3586,"date":"2018-05-26T22:46:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T22:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2018-05-26T22:46:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T22:46:58","slug":"us-senate-defense-bill-would-prep-for-high-tech-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/26\/us-senate-defense-bill-would-prep-for-high-tech-fights\/","title":{"rendered":"US SENATE DEFENSE BILL WOULD PREP FOR HIGH-TECH FIGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/Avangard.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3587\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/Avangard.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/Avangard.png 1000w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/Avangard-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/Avangard-768x578.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/Avangard-560x421.png 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/Avangard-260x196.png 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/Avangard-160x120.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Defense News<\/p>\n<p>By Joe Gould<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Armed Services Committee passed a version of the $716 billion defense policy bill Thursday that emphasizes investment in future warfare \u2014 with provisions on cyber, hypersonic weapons and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Its National Defense Authorization Act would sprinkle $600 million more than the Trump administration budget requests into science, technology and testing programs, to include hypersonics, space constellation technologies, rocket propulsion, directed energy and quantum information science \u2014 the \u201ckey to advancing warfighting capabilities,\u201d according to a summary of the bill released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The panel approved the massive bill after meeting behind closed doors this week, but the text of the bill itself is not expected for about another week. The panel was steered by its No. 2 Republican, Sen. Jim Inhofe, of Oklahoma, as its chairman, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was battling brain cancer at home in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>The NDAA is several steps from becoming law. The House passed its version of the legislation earlier Thursday, and the Senate must pass its version of the bill before the two versions are reconciled over the summer into a final bill for both chambers to pass.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2018\/05\/25\/us-senate-defense-bill-would-prep-for-high-tech-fights\/?utm_campaign=Socialflow&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Defense News By Joe Gould The Senate Armed Services Committee passed a version of the $716 billion defense policy bill Thursday that emphasizes investment in future warfare \u2014 with provisions on cyber, hypersonic weapons and artificial intelligence. Its National Defense Authorization Act would sprinkle $600 million more than the Trump administration budget requests into&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/26\/us-senate-defense-bill-would-prep-for-high-tech-fights\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US SENATE DEFENSE BILL WOULD PREP FOR HIGH-TECH FIGHTS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3588,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions\/3588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}