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GA-ASI awarded smart sensor JAIC contract

Air November 30, 2020

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.(GA-ASI) has been awarded a $93.3 million contract from the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) to enhance the autonomous sensing capabilities of unmanned aircraft. The goal of the JAIC Smart Sensor project is to advance Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology by demonstrating object recognition algorithms using an unmanned ...

New strategic sites monitoring solution developed by Airbus and Earthcube

Homeland October 19, 2020

Airbus has joined forces with Earthcube, a French company specialising in the analysis of geospatial data using Artificial Intelligence (AI), to develop and market “Defence Site Monitoring”, an online solution for strategic site monitoring dedicated to defence actors, combining advanced satellite imagery and AI. The new “Defence Site Monitoring” solution combines ...

Rolls-Royce makes breakthroughs in AI ethics and trustworthiness

Homeland September 10, 2020

Rolls-Royce has announced two breakthroughs in artificial intelligence ethics, which could help gain society’s trust of the technology and accelerate the next generation of industrialisation, known as industry 5.0. The first breakthrough from Rolls-Royce is an AI ethics framework, which is a method that any organisation can use to ensure the ...

GA-ASI demonstrates high-powered computing with AFRL’s Agile Condor Pod

Air September 9, 2020

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.(GA-ASI), with the support of SRC Inc., has successfully integrated and flew the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Agile Condor Pod on an MQ-9 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) at GA-ASI’s Flight Test and Training Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The Agile Condor Pod provides on-board high-speed ...