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Army Seeking Partnerships To Grow AI Network Protection Capabilities

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, November 15th, 2017

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Army leadership is set on shifting its network protection apparatus to leverage automated artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities as it looks to free up its growing cyber branch service to develop new tools to combat future threats.Officials are seeking greater partnerships with industry to address future cyber warfare needs, and hope to speed up the transition to machine learning capabilities with input from the private sector.“We are getting to a point now with artificial intelligence and machine learning that is really…

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