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DARPA Taps BAE Systems To Build New AI-Powered Signals Detection Platform

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, July 8th, 2019

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DARPA Taps BAE Systems To Build New AI-Powered Signals Detection Platform

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DARPA has tapped BAE Systems to produce a new machine learning-powered tool that allows for the rapid deciphering of unique radio frequency signals, the company said Monday. BAE Systems has received a potential $4.7 million deal to build a hardware platform that will use the data-driven algorithms it has been developing over the last year for DARPA’s Radio Frequency Machine Learning Systems (RFMLS) program. “RFMLS requires a robust, adaptable hardware solution with a multitude of control surfaces to enable improved…

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