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Cyber

Lead Official Details Mission Of Pentagon’s New AI Center

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, October 24th, 2018

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Lead Official Details Mission Of Pentagon’s New AI Center

Brendan McCord, chief architect for the Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center

A lead official for the Pentagon’s artificial intelligence center offered details Wednesday on the new office’s initial mission to operationalize new capabilities to assist with humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts.Brendan McCord, chief architect of the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), told attendees at a Nvidia [NVDA] conference the new office’s work will run through “National Mission Initiatives” to implement the latest object recognition and big data capabilities, beginning with a focus on personnel recovery and unmanned…

Congress

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Unmanned Systems

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