AI in Military (and GOV)
Applications of AI in the Military and tactical implications: Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being integrated into military operations, offering both opportunities and challenges.
AI Military in combat and tactical operations, decision support systems and logistics/training. AI in warfare was coming and it’s here.
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☑️ #16 Dec 16, 2024
Lockheed Martin Launches Astris AI To Enable Secure AI Solutions Across Industries
news.lockheedmartin.com: [Excerpt] Embracing the Future: Astris AI Provides Access to Lockheed Martin’s Proven AI/ML Platforms.
Astris AI’s solutions are positioned to address the rapid pace of technological advancements, costs and scaling challenges that organizations face in developing reliable, high assurance AI solutions.
The foundational tools available through Astris AI include Lockheed Martin’s proven AI Factory Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) and generative AI software platforms, built with the security and compliance required for entities operating in highly regulated environments.
With an open-architecture approach, these platforms offer technology and cost advantages through modularity, providing adaptable and resilient AI built to keep customers ahead of the continuously evolving technology environment.
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astrisai.com: [Excerpt] Proven in Defense. Optimized for Business.
Transformative Solutions to Unlock Business Potential.
Astris Genesis: Gen AI Platform.
Unlock the full potential of AI with our secure, enterprise-grade GenAI platform.Read More
Astris Services: Strategy & AI Engineering.
Drive transformative operational results at scale with our AI engineering experts. Read More
Astris AI Factory: AI/MLOps Platform.
Develop and deploy enterprise-grade AI solutions for scalability, flexibility, and security. Read More
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☑️ #15 Dec 12, 2024 🟠 opinion
$173,827,400,000
@creatine_cycle: no one even knows what palantir does.
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☑️ #14 Dec 10, 2024
Lattice
@anduriltech: The Lattice Partner Program connects the brightest defense innovators to deliver interoperable capabilities focused on mission success in complex, multi-domain environments. Partners receive dedicated developer resources and hands-on support to accelerate applications, streamline integrations, and deploy new capabilities to warfighters at the edge. This program is now live.
Launch partners include: @ApexSpacecraft, @ForterraDrive, @GoToImpulse, @numerica_corp, @Oracle, @Saronic, @scale_AI, @SpireGlobal, @Striveworks_US, @TXTSystems and @valinortech.
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☑️ #13 Dec 6, 2024
Logistics deters and wins wars
@AirSpaceIntel: At ASI we believe that logistics deters and wins wars, and our current threat landscape makes that more complicated than ever before. America's logistical networks must be as formidable as our weaponry.
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airspace-intelligence.com > Capabilities > Defense
a16z.com (12/7/23): Investing in Air Space Intelligence.
Enter Air Space Intelligence (ASI), a modern aerospace company addressing the software crisis in aerospace in both the enterprise and government sectors. ASI’s first product, Flyways AI, acts as an AI-powered air operations platform for airspace surveillance, flight monitoring and optimization. It enhances decision-making between air traffic control coordinators, flight dispatchers, and pilots by fusing hundreds of data sources, such as aircraft position reports, flight information updates, FAA feeds, weather forecasts, and other software systems. This allows air operators to optimize their network and flight operations, leading to significant time and fuel savings, and increased situational awareness that can enhance safety for everyone.
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☑️ #12 Dec 4, 2024
Anduril Partners with OpenAI to Advance U.S. Artificial Intelligence Leadership and Protect U.S. and Allied Forces
anduril.com: [Excerpt] U.S. and allied forces face a rapidly evolving set of aerial threats from both emerging unmanned systems and legacy manned platforms that can wreak havoc, damage infrastructure and take lives. The Anduril and OpenAI strategic partnership will focus on improving the nation’s counter-unmanned aircraft systems (CUAS) and their ability to detect, assess and respond to potentially lethal aerial threats in real-time. As part of the new initiative, Anduril and OpenAI will explore how leading edge AI models can be leveraged to rapidly synthesize time-sensitive data, reduce the burden on human operators, and improve situational awareness. These models, which will be trained on Anduril’s industry-leading library of data on CUAS threats and operations, will help protect U.S. and allied military personnel and ensure mission success.
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dhs.gov (): Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS)
The rapid increase in the availability and sophistication of UAS represents a significant challenge, as their capabilities progress faster than the ability to assess and mitigate the threat posed by nefarious small UAS.
The Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T’s) program assesses C-UAS technologies both in laboratory and real-world operational environments and assists DHS Components in: developing and refining requirements, completing the Congressionally mandated 6 USC 124n process to test and evaluate prototype C-UAS capabilities at a covered asset or mission, and in executing limited-duration C-UAS technology pilots at DHS Component locations. The program also guides the development of new and innovative technologies to deliver critical C-UAS capabilities to DHS Components.
anduril.com (10/28/24): [Excerpt] Artificial Intelligence is Key to Advancing Our National Security. Leading the world on AI will require the next president to build on last week’s memorandum, as well as recent legislation, by leading a large scale mobilization of public- and private-sector talent, infrastructure, and resources to advance AI development and deployment for national security missions. Our objective should be clear: the United States will cement our lead in AI by the end of this decade and sustain that advantage through the end of this century.
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☑️ #11 Nov 30, 2024 🟠 opinion
Where are the George Hotz's tweets?
@Bunagayafrost: 0 posts
wiped clean a day after talking about the NSA and the government influence in AI
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@Bunagayafrost: the govt plan looks like a "managed control" strategy give them defense contracts, bring them into the military industrial ecosystem, work out a regulatory scheme that favors the incumbent, maintain handful of players to foster healthy competition, and retain talent(no where else to go)
AI corps gain long term stability, lucrative contracts, and backing of the govt to overcome regulatory hurdles govt gets to make oversight simple, use in military, keep the industry domestic, and gains reign on trajectory of AI development i suppose the darkhorse is elon jumping over all of them directly into the white house
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☑️ #10 Nov 27, 2024
Autonomous Vessels and the Future of Maritime Warfare: Integrating AI and C4ISR Systems
systematic.com: [Excerpt] The battlespace of tomorrow.
To gain the real benefit from such distributed systems, especially in an environment where the electromagnetic spectrum, and thus communications, is likely to be contested and congested, many more of these functions, higher up the rank scale, will need to undertaken and decided upon by the Artificial Intelligence and algorithms onboard of our autonomous systems and in the Force C2 hubs. It may not be possible, for example, to pass back in real-time all of the radar or sonar data of an uncrewed picket, stationed far ahead of the main Task Group. And so, the onboard systems will need to be trained to identify, classify and prioritise the tracks of interest that are communicated to the main Force C2 hub, filling in the rest when the bandwidth is available.
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systematic.com > SitaWare > [] Enabling coalition interoperability and multi-domain C2 – everything is connected.
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☑️ #9 Nov 25, 2024
Pokémon Go Data ‘Adding Amplitude to War Is Obviously an Issue,’ Niantic Exec Says
404media.co [Excerpt] A Niantic executive said that he “could definitely see” governments and militaries purchasing the company’s newly announced AI model for navigating the real world, which would be based on scan data generated by Pokémon Go players, but that if the use case is specific to the military and “adding amplitude to war, then that’s definitely an issue.”
The comment was made by Brian McClendon, Niantic’s Senior Vice President of Engineering and formerly the co-creator of Google Earth, Street View, and Google Maps, at the investigative journalism group Bellingcat’s Bellingfest event on November 14. McClendon was giving a talk titled “Coordinates of tomorrow: Why spatial computing needs a new map,” which covered his history in the industry, his work at Google and Niantic, and some details on Niantic’s Large Geospatial Model, or LGM, that the company announced two days earlier.
During a questions and answers portion after his talk, Bellingcat’s open source analyst and ex-British Army officer Nick Waters said that LGMs would be “unbelievably useful” to the military and asked if McClendon could see governments and militaries purchase LGMs from Niantic.
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nianticlabs.com (11/13/24): Engineering Pokémon Playgrounds: Using Niantic’s Visual Positioning System to Anchor Pokémon to Real World Locations.
What is the Niantic Visual Positioning System (VPS)?
The camera-based augmented reality (AR) experiences in Niantic games have, until now, lacked a true sense of persistence because there hasn’t been a way to relate Pokémon to the world with the precision required to make them feel like they were part of it. While we’re able to use signals like GPS and compass data to place Pokémon on the 2D map, there is far too much error in those signals to place AR content convincingly in the 3D physical world. To place content accurately in AR, developers rely on anchors, a concept in computer vision that defines relationships between the physical characteristics of an environment and digital content. Until now, anchors have not been easy to persist across gameplay sessions, meaning players who place content in a game session could not share that content with other players or recover it in subsequent sessions. To address this challenge, Niantic developed its Visual Positioning System (VPS). VPS creates and serves anchors for real-world locations at scale. With VPS, anchors and their associated content can be easily stored and retrieved within any database solution by simply associating each digital asset in relation to its VPS anchor.
nianticlabs.com (11/12/24): Building a Large Geospatial Model to Achieve Spatial Intelligence.
As part of Niantic’s Visual Positioning System (VPS), we have trained more than 50 million neural networks, with more than 150 trillion parameters, enabling operation in over a million locations. In our vision for a Large Geospatial Model (LGM), each of these local networks would contribute to a global large model, implementing a shared understanding of geographic locations, and comprehending places yet to be fully scanned.
The LGM will enable computers not only to perceive and understand physical spaces, but also to interact with them in new ways, forming a critical component of AR glasses and fields beyond, including robotics, content creation and autonomous systems. As we move from phones to wearable technology linked to the real world, spatial intelligence will become the world’s future operating system.
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☑️ #8 Nov 24, 2024 🟠 opinion
META-powered military chatbot advertised giving “worthless” advice on airstrikes
theintercept.com: [Excerpt] The marketing of a new military tech tool powered by Meta’s artificial intelligence is “irresponsible” and “clumsy,” experts said.
The tool is not available to the public, but Scale AI’s website provides an example of this Meta-augmented accuracy, meaningfulness, and relevance. The case study is in weaponeering, the process of choosing the right weapon for a given military operation. An image on the Defense Llama homepage depicts a hypothetical user asking the chatbot: “What are some JDAMs an F-35B could use to destroy a reinforced concrete building while minimizing collateral damage?” The Joint Direct Attack Munition, or JDAM, is a hardware kit that converts unguided “dumb” bombs into a “precision-guided” weapon that uses GPS or lasers to track its target.
Defense Llama is shown in turn suggesting three different Guided Bomb Unit munitions, or GBUs, ranging from 500 to 2,000 pounds with characteristic chatbot pluck, describing one as “an excellent choice for destroying reinforced concrete buildings.”
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scale.com(11/5/24): Defense Llama: The LLM Purpose-Built for American National Security.
scale.com > Donovan: Purpose-built models for defense and intelligence communities. Available exclusively in controlled U.S. government environments on Scale Donovan, custom LLMs for defense are built on Meta's LLama 3. They enable national security users to apply generative Al to defense-related problem sets:
Military and Intelligence Operations Planning: Defense LLM empowers service members and national security professionals to use generative Al to understand adversary vulnerabilities and effectively plan military or intelligence operations.
Target Analysis: Defense LLM allows military planners to understand how an adversary could plan an attack against a U.S. military base and explore possible ways to counter such an attack.
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☑️ #7 Nov 19, 2024
AI-enabled unmanned systems
@epirus: AI-enabled unmanned systems? Fiber-optic controlled drones? Weaponized drone swarms?
These and other low-cost, commercially available threats are redefining conflict in today's age of asymmetric, electronic warfare.
These new adversarial tactics must be met with superior defense systems that leverage deep tech innovations from the component to system level in order to evolve with the shifting threat environment.
Epirus' Leonidas high-power microwave systems do just that, emitting a powerful and precise shield of energy to protect against a spectrum of electronic threats.
See for yourself
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☑️ #6 Nov 18, 2024
AI machine guns to counter AI drones
u/MetaKnowing: US military is planning to use AI machine guns to counter AI drones.
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u/akaBigWurm: Palmer Luckey, took his money from Oculus and started a drone defense company Anduril Industries that seems way more advanced than this.
u/smellyfingernial: Anduril's drone defense system is using a suicide drone to attack the offending drone. Seems actually incredibly inefficient in comparison to an autonomous sentry gun.
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allaboutai.com: [Excerpt] AI-Powered Machine Gun Tested by US Military for Future Use!
Key Takeaways
The Bullfrog, an AI-powered machine gun developed by Allen Control Systems (ACS), is designed to combat drones with unprecedented precision and efficiency.
Inspired by the widespread use of drones in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, this system addresses the challenges of targeting fast-moving, hard-to-hit aerial threats.
While the system currently requires human authorization to fire, its capacity for full autonomy raises ongoing debates about the ethics of AI in warfare.
Compared to traditional laser or microwave systems, the Bullfrog offers a more economical solution to counter-drone technologies.
@worldmilitarynews1: Pentagon reports successful testing of AI controlled machine gun.
anduril.com: [Excerpt] Our Mission > Transforming defense capabilities with advanced technology.
The battlefield has changed. How we deter & defend needs to change too.
Security threats are evolving at machine speed. To keep pace, Anduril puts products ahead of process and builds technology to bring the United States and partners quantum leaps ahead in capability.
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☑️ #5 Nov 18, 2024
AI suicide drones?
pyongyangtimes.com.kp: [Excerpt] [URL link tagged as not secure by Safari] Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un guides performance test of suicide attack drones of various types.
The competition for using UAVs as the main means of military capabilities by introducing innovative technology is being accelerated in the world. It is easy to use them as a component of striking power in a new domain for their ever-expanding range of use in military activities, low production cost and simple production lines. The military authorities in the world might have recognized that the UAVs are achieving clear successes in big and small conflicts. This is a current trend that has emerged as an essential requirement in military aspects. Such an objective change poses a pressing need to update many parts of military theory, practice and education and keenly calls upon the fields of defence science and education to take prompt practical actions and redouble their efforts.
He affirmed that the DPRK has full possibility and potentiality to produce and introduce various types of UAVs and it would open a prospect of combining and applying new and promising tactical methods also in the aspect of art of war as required by modern warfare.
+ Continue reading | kcnawatch.org/?s=unmanned+aerial+vehicles
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☑️ #4 Nov 16, 2024
AI Control Over Nuclear Weapons
whitehouse.gov: [Excerpt] Readout of President Joe Biden’s Meeting with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China.
Building on a candid and constructive dialogue on AI and co-sponsorship of each other’s resolutions on AI at the United Nations General Assembly, the two leaders affirmed the need to address the risks of AI systems, improve AI safety and international cooperation, and promote AI for good for all. The two leaders affirmed the need to maintain human control over the decision to use nuclear weapons. The two leaders also stressed the need to consider carefully the potential risks and develop AI technology in the military field in a prudent and responsible manner.
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☑️ #3 Nov 15, 2024
Skynode S
wsj.com: [Excerpt] Killer Robots Are About to Fill Ukrainian Skies. Kyiv’s drone suppliers are ramping up production of computer-guided drones that are cheap and can’t be electronically jammed.
WSJ: Ukraine orders tens of thousands of AI-powered “killer drones” The drones feature the Skynode system by U.S. company Auterion, which uses artificial intelligence for “computer vision.” Skynode, a mini-computer and flight controller, is integrated into drones produced by Ukrainian companies1. The technology bypasses electronic warfare interference, enables swarm control, and supports fully autonomous flight. Ukraine is set to receive tens of thousands of Skynode units, with deployment on the battlefield expected early next year. Additionally, drones with fiber-optic guidance, already in use, offer further protection against electronic warfare. Other companies are also developing similar systems for Ukraine’s defense.
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auterion.com (6/28/24): [Excerpt] Auterion introduces breakthrough drone technology for kinetic military use to help democracies defend themselves.
Auterion’s Skynode S is the first purpose-built all-in-one solution to allow fully autonomous flight to reach and destroy ground targets with significant accuracy increase.
Novel software immune to electronic warfare countermeasures like jamming during terminal approach phase.
First software offered at a competitive price – combat drones at the cost of smartphones.
Proven combat-readiness in successful missions in Ukraine. Read more
Source: Auterion LLC
auterion.com: [Excerpt] Bring AI and computer vision to small autonomous systems. Skynode S is the compact, low-cost, chip-down controller that enables any small UAS system with the Auterion software platform. Featuring a custom designed, powerful mission computer to deploy AI and computer vision applications at scale
wsj.com: Killer Robots Are About to Fill Ukrainian Skies. Kyiv’s drone suppliers are ramping up production of computer-guided drones that are cheap and can’t be electronically jammed.
The minicomputers reportedly provide guidance, targeting and networking functions, are capable of stabilizing drones and maneuvering around obstacles to targets, and cost about $300 apiece.
Source: The Wall Street Journal - News Corporation
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📌 Notes: pending content
⇢ What is FedRamp (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program)?
⇢ What is AWS GovCloud (US)?
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☑️ #2 November 2024
Software First
politico.com: [Excerpt] Turning observations into action. How artificial intelligence and commercial satellite imagery can help DOD act quickly against dynamic evolving threats.
Leading on speed and accuracy with AI
The secret to BlackSky’s system — the first of its kind in the industry — is its “software-first” mindset, which allows customers like DOD to purchase not only imagery from the company’s satellites, but also analytic products with which to make sense of it. And because the service is immediately available, they aren’t spending time or dollars building it on their own.
“Software-first means enabling our customers with insights from day one of a partnership,” explains Currie. The beating heart of a software-first approach is AI that can automatically process data from satellites, ground sensors and open-source platforms like news outlets and social media, then analyze it quickly and accurately to put actionable information into the hands of strategic and tactical leaders.
“Automated analysis, powered by AI, is part of speeding up the whole workflow to get information to the decision-maker,” Currie continues. “DOD, in particular, needs AI outputs because of how narrow the decision windows are.” Human analysts are a vital link in the intelligence supply chain. However, when mission success hinges on speed and accuracy, machines prove to be far more proficient.
“Earth observation systems produce copious quantities of data, making AI enormously valuable for actually dissecting all of it and understanding what’s happening,” O’Neil explains. “We’ve developed a platform that allows us to take very, very large quantities of satellite imagery, then through that imagery, use AI to detect activity patterns like new construction or new roads being built.”
With that kind of capability, analysts and decision-makers can avoid the tedious and time-consuming work of parsing pixels from collected imagery and focus, instead, on planning and executing strategic responses to the information therein.
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blacksky.com (@blacksky_inc): BlackSky: Harness the Power of a Superpower.
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☑️ #1 Nov 7, 2024
Classified environments
@PalantirTech: Palantir will be the first industry partner to bring Claude models to classified environments for U.S. government intelligence and defense operations.
Learn more about our partnership with @AnthropicAI and @awscloud to deliver this asymmetric AI advantage to our most critical missions:
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Joe Lonsdale: Our Duties as Defense Technologists. As we bolster our defenses with technology, we must remember - and teach - our duties as citizens.
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