SALLY COLE, SENIOR EDITOR

A study found that less-than-competent users of artificial intelligence (AI) on the battlefield – presumably those who would need that AI boost most of all – are actually the least likely to be swayed by rational justifications, even with AI thought to be infallible.

JENNIFER KEENAN, MERCURY SYSTEMS

Today's autonomous and artificial intelligence (AI) military systems process an ever-growing amount of sensor data. To handle this extreme workload, system architects must design boards using the fastest FPGA [field-programmable gate array] devices and Intel multicore processors. 

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Officials at the Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory, the U.S. Army's corporate laboratory (ARL), announced that Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) will lead a consortium of multiple universities to work in collaboration with the Army lab to accelerate research and development (R&D) of advanced algorithms, autonomy, and artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance national security and defense.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials launched the Science of Artificial Intelligence and Learning for Open-world Novelty (SAIL-ON) program, which intends to research and...

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has released the summary of its strategy on artificial intelligence (AI) -- called "Harnessing AI to Advance Our Security and Prosperity -- in which the DoD outlines how it will leverage AI into the future.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Applied Insight officials -- back by The Acacia Group -- announced the acquisition of Applied Technology Group (ATG) and Stratus Solutions. These acquisitions strengthen Applied Insight’s advanced cloud, analytics, and artificial intelligence capabilities.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

The U.S. Army awarded Charles River three related contracts to design artificial intelligence-based components for an Automated Ruggedized Combat Casualty Care (ARC3) system.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

BAE Systems will be able to compete for future cyber engineering task orders awarded under a seven and a half-year, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ), U.S. Navy contract..

PARABRICKS & SKYSCALE

Modern genomics is characterized by rapid production of vast amounts of raw sequencing data (sequencing reads) using next-generation sequencing (NGS) and the equally massive computing requirements for conversion of that data into useful results.