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Navy Acquires Underwater Drone for Mine Sweeping

The U.S. Navy and the Defense Innovation Unit selected L3Harris Technologies to provide an unmanned undersea vehicle for expeditionary undersea missions, particularly mine sweeping.The Next Generation, Small-Class, Maritime Expeditionary Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (MEMUUV) program took delivery of one Iver4-900 UUV for testing. Later will come two field-swappable modular payload sections to include real

Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Satellite Imagery Dataset

Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) released a new satellite imagery dataset to advance key frontiers in computer vision and develop new solutions for national security and disaster response. The release was in support of the DIUx xView 2018 Detection Challenge: OBJECTS IN CONTEXT IN OVERHEAD IMAGERY WHAT IS xVIEW?

Army to Use Artificial Intelligence to Predict Which Vehicles Will Break Down

The U.S. Army is turning to a little-known tech start-up to automate the job of an equipment technician: It will employ artificial intelligence to flag failing vehicle parts before they break down in combat. The company, Chicago-based Uptake Technologies, has finalized a $1 million contract agreement with the U.S. Army, under which the company”s technology