President Joe Biden has mandated the Department of Defense to look for ways to use artificial intelligence to protect national security networks. The requirement is part of the “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” executive order signed on Monday. Under the EO, the secretaries of defense and homeland security must identify, […]
The U.S. Navy has launched an experimental artificial intelligence program designed to answer thousands of help desk requests within 45 seconds. Called Amelia, the AI program will serve as a testing platform for conversational AI. Amelia responds to support tickets using natural language processing, which enables the system to understand text. According to Nathan Hagan, […]
DecisionPoint announced on Wednesday that it has secured a $9.6 million task order to lead the transition of the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services network to Internet Protocol Version 6 from Version 4. The company disclosed that the contract was competitively awarded via the General Services Administration Veterans Technology Services 2 […]
The U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX Prime and the Federal Aviation Administration have signed a flight test data exchange agreement to fast-track the development and safe integration of advanced aircraft mobility platforms into the national airspace infrastructure. The data exchange’s memorandum of understanding, which the Air Force Research Laboratory disclosed on Wednesday, will help AFWERX Prime’s […]
Voxeljet and General Electric’s research business have teamed up under a $14.9 million Department of Energy award to develop and market the Advanced Casting Cell, a 3D printer for large sand-casting molds used by the wind and hydro energy sectors. The ACC program is expected to support the United States’ transition to clean power, 3D […]
Jessica Rosenworcel, chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission, announced on Monday that she would circulate a plan to assess how artificial intelligence could address illegal robocalls and texts. The proposed inquiry would look into the strengths and weaknesses of using AI to combat such activities under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the FCC said. In […]
The U.S. Army’s Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office is seeking a system that can address drone threats. At the Association of the United States Army convention, JCO Director Maj. Gen. Sean Gainey invited industry players offering such capabilities to propose their technologies to his office, saying that JCO has allotted money to invest in […]
Illinois company NUTS Technologies announced that its Generative AI Encryption at the Edge solution has been added to the Department of Defense’s Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace. GAINE automatically protects users’ generative artificial intelligence requests made on network edge devices. It uses a distributed and centralized architecture, enabling seamless multi-domain AI session security and sharing in any […]
California-based startup BlueQubit announced that it was chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency for the Imagining Practical Applications for a Quantum Tomorrow program. DARPA’s decision reflects a commitment to quantum innovation with a focus on developing machine learning algorithms for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices, BlueQubit said Monday. According to BlueQubit CEO Hrant Gharibyan, […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is soliciting proposals for its Transfer from Imprecise and Abstract Models to Autonomous Technologies program, geared toward developing rapid learning methods able to deliver same-day autonomy transfer. TIAMAT is envisioned as a two-phase program featuring sim-to-sim and sim-to-real model competitions. Each phase runs for 18 months, with the first […]
