The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is working with Deloitte to develop a prototype of a cloud platform that could enable developers to create uses for AI under an $80 million contract awarded in August 2020, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday.

JAIC said the AI development environment, also known as the Joint Common Foundation, will be backed by various cloud platforms including the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) program and Cloud One of the U.S. Air Force.

“This development environment is built on top of a cloud platform, so the JCF is not a cloud platform but it will ride on top of JEDI and actually other cloud environments,” Nand Mulchandani, acting director of JAIC, said Thursday during a Pentagon briefing. “So we are not envisioning this as a monolithic central system that is the only system that everyone will use.”

Mulchandani said the JCF will accommodate open-source platforms and other development tools.

“The point is Deloitte will actually be working with industry partners,” Mulchandani said. “We believe and want all of those products to be deployed through the JCF so that our developer community can actually have access to the best tech that is out there.”

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The Department of Energy (DOE) has earmarked $16 million in funds to support research efforts in the usage of artificial intelligence and machine learning for scientific studies and management of complex processes.

The funding opportunity will support the development of AI and ML-based predictive modeling and simulation technologies for physical sciences.

The program will also focus on research activities that will tackle the employment of a decision support approach in handling complex systems. The department will award $3 million for five modeling and simulation projects, while $13 million will be allotted for six decision support studies.

DOE picked the awardees via a competitive peer review process.

Air Force Global Strike Command is engaging with nontraditional innovators to establish a new hub for technology pursuits, National Defense Magazine reported Wednesday. The STRIKEWERX facility is open for engagement with small businesses, nontraditional inventors, universities and large companies in pursuit of innovation.

STRIKEWERX stands outside Barksdale Air Force Base, strategically located near but not within the command's headquarters. The command focuses on communications, command and control and nuclear weapon support technologies.

USAF based STRIKEWERX on AFWERX, the service branch's existing innovation program that engages with multiple sectors to develop needed technologies.

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has introduced a remote sensing approach that uses a millimetre wave radar to trace subtle vibration changes from moving targets. The radar will gauge vibrations and reproduce sounds from vehicles through the use of a new algorithm, NRL said Wednesday.

"We developed these techniques to analyze the motion of moving targets at long range, which people haven’t done before," said Christopher Rodenbeck, an electrical engineer at NRL's radar division.

"We showed that if the muffler is vibrating, we can tell if a parked car is on or not. If that car is about to go into gear, we can detect a strong impulse vibration from the gear change," added Rodenbeck.

Rodenbeck noted software modifications on automotive radars will potentially allow current and future vehicles to mitigate road accidents.

Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, commander of 16th Air Force, has said that forces need to eliminate “geographic bias” and consider location-based threats despite operating in the space of cyber domains.

Haugh told attendees at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit that adversaries like China and Russia deploy tactics such as influencing various regions through information-based or nonkinetic capabilities, C4ISRnet reported Wednesday.

He noted that the U.S. must update its warfighting structure to focus more on data-driven operations.

According to Haugh, a data-centric strategy entails the proper use of authorities to “determine what’s the best approach, whether that be from a Department of Defense (DoD) perspective or across our interagency or with our partners."

His comments come a month after Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and two-time Wash100 Award recipient, announced plans to establish a warfighting structure to address future battlefield needs.

Everbridge has entered a partnership with Planet, a provider of global satellite imagery data and insights, to advance satellite imagery for Everbridge’s Visual Command Center, Everbridge reported on Wednesday.

“Our partnership with Everbridge expands the way our new and existing users can combine global, high-resolution satellite imagery with effective crisis mitigation to protect people, operations and assets,” said Dina Kazzaz, head of Business Development for Planet. “These insights will allow our customers to better understand rapidly evolving conditions on the ground and respond to disasters more quickly and effectively.”

Everbridge’s command center has provided a platform for organizations to manage their operations, supply chain, IoT footprint and resiliency as part of the company’s CEM Platform. With the expansion of its satellite imagery, including advancing technology across remote areas where weather or terrain make it difficult to capture images by aircraft, Everbridge will further help governments and corporations mitigate the impact of natural and manmade disasters.

The partnership with Planet will enable Everbridge customers to effectively respond to crises such as hurricanes, floods, fires, chemical spills, cyberattacks, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Planet’s satellite data and insights will advance the visualization and orchestration component of Everbridge’s CEM Platform.

With the work under the partnership, Everbridge customers will gain access to high-resolution images of regions before and after disasters, enabling responders to pinpoint where infrastructure sustained damage, then coordinate a response. Everbridge Visual Command Center has enabled enterprises to gain situational awareness and risk resilience on an unprecedented scale.

The Everbridge CEM solution has provided an integrated, end-to-end approach that has assisted organizations assess the severity of events; determine their relevance to people, assets, customers, and supply chains; automate actions and workflows to mitigate threats and track progress; and analyze performance to improve future response.

“The addition of Planet’s satellite imagery into the Everbridge CEM solution will benefit our customers with unparalleled insights into local conditions to support a variety of high-impact customer use cases,” said Annie Asrari, senior director, Everbridge Partner Ecosystem. “Access to up-to-date satellite imagery anywhere in the world provides another valuable layer of intelligence for corporations and government customers alike.”

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