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BigBear.ai, L3Harris Team On AI For Autonomous Surface Vessels

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, May 9th, 2023

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BigBear.ai, L3Harris Team On AI For Autonomous Surface Vessels

Mandy Long, CEO of BigBear.ai. Photo: BigBear.ai

L3Harris Technologies [LHX] and the artificial intelligence analytics solutions provider BigBear.ai [BBAI] have teamed to create an AI capability to enable autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) to better identify and classify vessels to improve their maneuverability. The partnership integrates L3Harris’s ASView ASV control system and BigBear.ai’s forecasting computer vision technology to enhance situational awareness of ASVs and support manned-unmanned teaming. “Integrating L3Harris’ ASView technology and BigBear.ai’s AI solutions will increase our ASVs’ sophistication by improving contact identification accuracy and pattern-of-life detection…

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