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Why AI must support not supplant human decision-making in defence

January 20, 2025

There is a fundamental difference between human and machine intelligence. But, increasingly, organisations look at artificial intelligence (AI) as an alternative to the people, teams and processes they already have; a way to cut people out of the loop and save on costs. For many organisations, it may be difficult ...

£1M funding for Humans in Systems competition

May 22, 2023

Can you help DASA enhance innovations in Human Machine Interaction (HMI); and interface technologies and approaches to support teamwork and collaboration? DASA has launched a new Themed Competition called, ‘Humans in Systems: Accelerating Interaction Innovation’ Funded by the Defence Science Technology Laboratory (Dstl) Up to £1M in funding available for innovative technologies that ...

BAE Systems to provide transparency and trust in machine learning

Homeland July 16, 2020

BAE Systems recently delivered software to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of a contract under the agency’s Competency-Aware Machine Learning (CAML) program. The delivery of the MindfuL software is the first milestone in the program to improve the transparency of machine learning systems. Transitioning artificial intelligence-based systems from ...

DASA announces AI contracts for warships

Maritime January 17, 2020

A new DASA project will provide £4million in funding for AI contracts. DASA (Defence and Security Accelerator) will provide funding for AI Contracts as part of its Intelligent Ship – The Next Generation competition, which aims to develop maritime technology. Intelligent Ship is focused on inventive approaches for Human-AI and AI-AI ...