Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned at the U.S. Army’s annual convention that America faces an era of broadening global conflict in which adversaries such as China threaten to outpace the U.S. military, especially if the Pentagon does not move more quickly to modernize. Source: The Washington Times
Pete Hegseth called the nearly $1,500 billion defense budget proposal a “generational investment” needed to keep the U.S. from falling behind in the race for autonomous devices, robots and artificial intelligence (AI).