Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton

“We will have to dial back our activities and our exercise and operational activity if the level of resource funding that’s available to us does not increase. Now that’s still to be debated and decided”

“He also warned that the impact of higher inflation, particularly the rise in jet fuel prices, has eroded budgets in recent weeks”

“military leaders must update their assumptions about the technology every six months or risk falling behind adversaries.”

“Knighton announced the creation of a new Rapid AI Delivery Task Force, dubbed “task force RAID”, which will report directly to him and be given powers to bypass traditional procurement and recruitmen…”

“Knighton outlined four priority areas for the task force: intelligence fusion, electronic warfare, automated military planning and AI-enabled drone swarms.”

“Knighton said some intelligence processes that previously took weeks can now be completed in hours.”

“NATO and our allies have an advantage,” Knighton said. “I believe that free societies with world-class universities, deep capital markets and allied mission-driven militaries can innovate and combine…”