Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has announced the signing of a statement of intent for U.S.-Singapore cooperation in defense data analytics and artificial intelligence deployment. Signed by the Department of Defense’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer and Singapore’s deputy defense secretary for technology, the SOI will promote ethical AI use and interoperability of U.S. […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a contract to Exiger and MetalMiner to develop technology enhance supply chain resilience and national security. The award is in line with the Open Price Exploration for National Security program, which aims to increase transparency in critical commodity pricing, supply demand and capacity forecasting, Exiger said. Under […]
Eight contractors are expected to compete for a multiyear, $3 billion Department of Defense contract to procure commercial data and artificial intelligence-driven analytics services for monitoring Indo-Pacific threats. The capabilities will be procured under the DOD’s Long-Range Enterprise Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Activity program on information processing from platforms on the ground, in the air […]
Two University of Central Florida researchers have received a $1.2 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to address the so-called “simulation-to-real gap.” Announced on Monday, George Atia and Yue Wang’s “Distributionally Robust Approaches to Transfer Learning” project will see the two experts work over the next 18 months to create artificial intelligence-powered […]
Three Democratic senators have asked the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into the big tech companies for their artificial intelligence consolidation activities, which involve hiring talents and getting access to products from AI startups without formally acquiring them. In a letter to the FTC and the DOJ, Sens. […]
Researchers and scientists from U.S. national laboratories have collaborated on a new report on artificial intelligence approaches that the Department of Energy can use to accelerate renewable energy development at lesser risks and costs. Behind the report titled “AI for Energy” are the Argonne National Laboratory, the DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory, the National Renewable Energy […]
The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has announced plans to partner with additional vendors to support the Advana enterprise data and analytics platform. The shift aims to promote competition and innovation in the procurement process for data, analytics, and artificial intelligence tools and services, the CDAO said. Previously, the General Services […]
BreakPoint Labs’ suite of solutions has received an “Awardable” status in the Department of Defense’s artificial intelligence/machine learning marketplace. In a press release on Tuesday, the cybersecurity services firm announced that it had received the designation from the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, making its cybersecurity solutions available to federal customers through the […]
The U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research has awarded Charles River Analytics a multiyear contract to develop the Hierarchical Optimized Planning with Heterogeneous Autonomous Network of Tactics tool. HIEROPHANT is designed to streamline the integration of autonomous systems into existing military command-and-control structures, Charles River Analytics said. According to Dr. James Niehaus, principal scientist at […]
An artificial intelligence algorithm developed by Heron Systems emerged victorious in a virtual dogfight simulation against a human F-16 fighter pilot during the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s AlphaDogfight Trials. The simulated battle ended with a lopsided result in favor of the AI algorithm, as it defeated the human pilot, who goes by the name […]
