SOF WEEK 2023 If US Special Operations Command wants to keep up with its counterparts in China, it’s got to leverage private equity to speed the integration of commercial tech, a panel of VCs and experts warned. Addressing USSOCOM’s commander, Gen. Bryan Fenton, and delegates at the inaugural SOF Week conference in Tampa, Fla., last week, the panel described how the commercial market and small-medium enterprises (SMEs) continue to drive hi-tech development in defense, particularly in the areas of artificial intelligence, cyber and autonomy all tech special operations forces needs to stay on the cutting edge. “VCs are critical to this,” Joseph Felter, director of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University urged before suggesting commercial investment in US defense was “incomparable” to that of China. RELATED: AI will be ‘key to every single thing,’ SOCOM acquisition chief says Thomas Tull, founder and chairman of the US In
Famed for its bald, leathery visage and astonishing wingspan, the federally endangered California Condor symbolizes both a species on the brink of extinction and a thundering success story for conservationists.
Famed for its bald, leathery visage and astonishing wingspan, the majestic California Condor are facing a biological catastrophe they may not be able to overcome: avian flu.
Famed for its bald, leathery visage and astonishing wingspan, the federally endangered California Condor symbolizes both a species on the brink of extinction and a thundering success story for conservationists.