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General Motors Gets License for Oak Ridge National Lab’s ‘MENNDL’ AI Software

General Motors has secured a commercial license for an artificial intelligence software from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in support of its vehicle technology development efforts. The company will use and evaluate the potential of the Multinode Evolutionary Neural Networks for Deep Learning AI system in speeding up the development of driver assistance technologies.

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by Jane Edwards April 28, 2021, 6:18 am
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Companies Work on AI-Based Sensors, Weapons for Use in Image Processing, Target Identification

Defense contractors are working on artificial intelligence-powered sensors and other partially autonomous machines that could help the U.S. Army process images and identify targets, Breaking Defense reported Thursday.

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by Jane Edwards October 19, 2020, 3:18 am
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DARPA Seeks Research Proposals for Moving Target Recognition Program
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Leidos Seeks to Help Warfighters in GPS-Denied Environments With Positioning Tech

The Department of Defense is looking for alternative platforms that could provide navigation and positioning data in GPS-denied environments and Leidos is one of the companies that could help meet the need, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday.

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by Jane Edwards October 17, 2019, 3:23 am
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DoD Needs “˜Smart Edge' Infrastructure to Back AI Initiatives; Cameron Chehreh Quoted

The Department of Defense needs a “smart edge“ computing infrastructure to better leverage the capabilities of artificial intelligence and support warfighters at the tactical edge, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday.

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by Jane Edwards September 19, 2019, 5:16 am
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Nick Weir: In-Q-Tel Advances AI Through SpaceNet Project

Nick Weir, a data scientist at In-Q-Tel and challenge manager for SpaceNet project, told Federal News Network in an interview published Monday how IQT's CosmiQ Works laboratory leverages artificial intelligence through the SpaceNet initiative.

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by Jane Edwards July 1, 2019, 10:17 pm
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IBM's Dan Chenok: Data Governance, Explainable Algorithms Could Help Agencies Address AI-Related Risks

Dan Chenok, executive director of the IBM Center for The Business of Government, wrote in a Nextgov article published Thursday that government agencies should address ethical issues and risks associated with the implementation of artificial intelligence and one of the measures to consider is developing explainable algorithms.

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by Jane Edwards June 21, 2019, 12:45 am
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Intel's David Hoffman: Government, Industry Should Collaborate on National AI Strategy

David Hoffman, associate general counsel and global privacy officer at Intel, has said government and industry should work together on a national strategy that would advance the adoption of artificial intelligence. Hoffman wrote in a FedScoop article published Tuesday the national AI strategy should address four areas and one is to foster AI innovation across government and industry.

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by Jane Edwards April 10, 2019, 2:47 am
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AI.Reverie Gets In-Q-Tel Investment for Computer Vision Simulation Platform
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Hortonworks“™ Shaun Bierweiler: Open-Source Tools Could Help Agencies Gain Actionable Intelligence From Data

Shaun Bierweiler, president of Hortonworks“™ federal business, told Emergency Management in an interview published Wednesday that developers have come up with enterprise open source tools such as Hadoop and Apache NiFi designed to process and generate actionable intelligence from data. “The beauty of using an enterprise open source platform in a disaster response setting […] More

by Jane Edwards December 3, 2018, 10:05 am
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IARPA, NIST Seek Cross-Lingual Data Retrieval Algorithms via Prize Competition

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have invited academic and industry researchers worldwide to develop algorithms for retrieval of cross-lingual information through a $30K prize competition. IARPA said the OpenCLIR Challenge seeks technology that will work to help English speakers to identify content from blogs, social media, speeches, newswire and […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman November 26, 2018, 8:13 am
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Lockheed, Boeing Execs Discuss Measures to Help DoD Achieve Mission Capability Target for Fighter Jets

Executives from Lockheed Martin and Boeing have discussed how their companies could help the Defense Department increase readiness of fighter jets, Defense News reported Wednesday. Defense Secretary James Mattis issued in October a memo that directs the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy to boost the mission capability rate to up to 80 percent […] More

by Jane Edwards November 1, 2018, 11:25 am