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The U.S. Navy uses an automated target recognition (ATR) system on unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to search for mines.
The U.S. Navy's automated target recognition system for mine detection is an ensemble of deep learning models that runs on an NVIDIA processor onboard its unmanned underwater vehicles.
The AI-based automated target recognition system on U.S. Navy UUVs can dynamically trigger pre-programmed changes to the vehicle's mission, such as searching an area more extensively upon detecting a potential mine.
A primary difference between civilian autonomous vehicles and military systems is the requirement to design for and withstand regular, repeated, and intentional adversarial cyber attacks.
The U.S. Navy's effort to cyber harden a commercial unmanned underwater vehicle resulted in a 90% change to the system, far exceeding the initial 10% estimate.
John Hasse predicts that the future of warfare will involve more robotic systems, a more connected battlefield, and AI agents assisting in decision-making, leading to a faster pace of operations.
The U.S. Navy is exploring pilot programs to use intelligent agents to replace traditional PDFs and tech manuals for tasks like field maintenance and mission planning.
Naval mines are considered an asymmetric threat because they are relatively low-cost but can be incredibly dangerous and halt naval operations.
Google Cloud has obtained Impact Level 5 (IL5) approval, allowing it to offer cloud services to the U.S. Department of Defense alongside Amazon and Microsoft.
Encouraging underwater acoustic communications on a U.S. Navy UUV increased signal transmission time, which caused a digital signal processor to overheat and a circuit card to fail, necessitating a physical redesign.
The U.S. Department of Defense finds it more effective to adapt its requirements to fit an existing, at-scale commercial solution rather than building a bespoke system from scratch.
According to John Hasse, software has never been the deciding factor in winning a war and will not be in the future.