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Drone Likely First to Receive Neuromorphic Computing Under U.S. Air Force Effort

Frank Wolfe

Friday, May 1st, 2020

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Drone Likely First to Receive Neuromorphic Computing Under U.S. Air Force Effort

The Air Force Research Laboratory and IBM built the Blue Raven supercomputer, which AFRL is using to develop neuromorphic computing for airborne platforms (AFRL Photo)

The United States Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) in Rome, N.Y., is working to develop neuromorphic computing for possible fielding on a drone in the next five years. AFRL is looking to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to boost processing power and give military operators analytical results, not raw data, to speed wartime decision making. "Current technology and humans cannot keep up with the deluge of data from high resolution sensors on air platforms, and the data…

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