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If you could build an Air Force base from scratch…
AFWERX's Base of the Future showcase will take advantage of the nearly wholesale rebuilding of Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida.
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Why the Air Force put Kubernetes in an F-16
The Air Force is increasingly deploying solutions like Kubernetes, the open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, to quickly deliver advanced capabilities to warfighters.
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DISA seeks military-wide identity management
The Defense Information Systems Agency is looking for vendors to establish a federated identity service that will allow it to centrally manage identity, credential and access management across DOD.
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ROBOpilot turns manned aircraft to drones in first 2-hour flight
A modular mechanical "pilot" recently completed a two-hour flight at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.
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DARPA to add reasoning to autonomous teams
A new program aims to build autonomous systems that can react to changing context and learn from experience.
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DISA streamlines cloud authorizations
Defense Department mission partners and service components can now host DOD Impact Level 2 data on FedRAMP-compliant clouds without waiting for an explicit written authorization from DOD.
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DARPA uses nature as a muse for new computing model
The Nature as Computer program is interested in models and concepts that exploit biological systems to crack currently unsolvable computational problems.
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Marines test AI, autonomous systems for battlefield intel
The technology allows infantry squads to tap into networked sensors, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems to make better decisions in complex, time-critical combat situations.
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Navy wants 'see something, send something' system
The Naval District Washington is looking for ways to make it easier for analysts to react to reports of suspicious activity in real time.
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DOD builds laser that IDs remote subjects by their heartbeat
The Defense Department has developed a device that uses an infrared laser to detect unique cardiac signatures of people 200 meters away.
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DARPA dives into undersea networks
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to build an undersea network so that the military can have connected command and control capabilities across all domains.
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The National Guard's cyber escape room
The Massachusetts Army National Guard is building a cyber and network security themed escape room it can take to schools to get students interested in cybersecurity.
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Air Force Lab wants wearables to monitor warfighter health
The Air Force Research Lab teamed with a biosensor startup to develop implanted sensors that would allow medical personnel to continuously monitor troops for indications of a potential illness.
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AI-enabled drones expand search and rescue options
Researchers at Virginia Tech are working to inject machine learning into search and rescue protocols and optimize autonomous, multi-drone teams to make searches more effective.
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ARL wants anticipatory AI to adapt to soldiers' needs
Brain activity could be harnessed to optimize a performance of a human-machine team, according to an ARL researcher.
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DISA's milDrive delivers personal cloud storage
Defense Department users can now get Dropbox-like storage and file sharing and syncing services for unclassified data from their laptops and mobile devices.
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DARPA wants AI to learn like a child
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to build an automated language acquisition system that learns language the way children do -- extracting meaning from hearing sounds while observing the environment.
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IARPA seeks security footage for better algorithm training
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity wants 960 hours of annotated video data to help it train computer vision algorithms for law enforcement and public safety.
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Army looks to put ground-penetrating radar on drones
Mounted on unmanned aerial and land vehicles, the lightweight radar-on-a-chip technology could expand the military's ability to map the shapes, sizes and features of objects in the environment.
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Machine learning on the fly
The Real-Time Machine Learning Grand Challenge aims to create processors that can interpret and learn from data in real-time with the energy efficiency of the human brain.
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