Pentagon Looking for AI to Interpret ‘Strategic Activity’ Around the Globe
Jack Corrigan By Jack Corrigan,
September 25, 2019 10:27 AM ET
The commercial tools, requested by the Defense Innovation Unit, would derive insights from global news outlets, social media platforms and other publicly available resources.
The Defense Department’s startup outreach office is looking for artificial intelligence tools that can keep help Pentagon officials understand trends in world events.
The Defense Innovation Unit last week put out a solicitation for commercial software that can automatically ingest, analyze and derive insights from publicly available information. The tool is expected to plug into a wide variety of global resources, including news outlets, blogs, social media platforms, patent databases and academic journals.
https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/09/pentagon-looking-ai-interpret-strategic-activity-around-globe/160122/
