Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., chair of the House Armed Services Committee’s emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee, led a roundtable Thursday with industry representatives and subject matter experts on commercial artificial intelligence technology.

HASC said Friday the closed meeting sought to identify opportunities, challenges and implications of AI adoption efforts.

Accenture, FireEye, Boston Consulting Group and Pilot.ai were among the technology companies that participated in the roundtable.

“Over the last year, we have explored technology issues that could drastically change the way wars are fought, impacting not only our national security, but our economic security as well,” Stefanik said.

She added that the subcommittee aims to encourage partnerships between the government, industry and academia to integrate AI into Defense Department projects such as Project Maven.

Stefanik introduced a bill in March that calls for the establishment of an independent commission to help the federal government implement the technology.

The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy has established a new subcommittee tasked with managing a national agenda on quantum information science, Fedscoop reported Friday.

The QIS subcommittee will operate within the National Science and Technology Council to form and initiate quantum technology efforts across the U.S. federal government.

Stakeholders from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Energy and National Science Foundation will join Jacob Taylor, assistant director for QIS at the OSTP, to chair the subcommittee.

Additionally, the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Interior and State, along with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, NASA, and the National Security Agency, will also be involved in the subcommittee, the report noted.

The subcommittee will seek to address the technology’s effects to economic and national security, officials said.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has hosted a series of demonstrations through a program that seeks to increase the survivability, mobility and safety of combat vehicles.

DARPA said Friday several contract recipients under the second phase of the Ground X-Vehicle Technologies program demonstrated suspension and wheel-to-track technologies that work to allow the vehicles to navigate through slopes, elevations and other off-road terrain.

Those technologies include a reconfigurable wheel-track platform from Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center; electric in-hub motor from QinetiQ; and the Multi-mode Extreme Travel Suspension system from Pratt & Miller.

The GXV-T program also included demonstrations of crew augmentation technologies that work to provide situational awareness and those include a Honeywell-built windowless cockpit system in an all-terrain vehicle; Virtual Perspectives Augmenting Natural Experience technology demonstrator from Raytheon’s BBN Technologies business; and the Off-Road Crew Augmentation platform from CMU NREC.

“We’re looking at how to enhance survivability by buttoning up the cockpit and augmenting the crew through driver-assistance aids,” said Maj. Amber Walker, program manager for GXV-T at DARPA’s tactical technology office.

“For mobility, we’ve taken a radically different approach by avoiding armor and developing options to move quickly and be agile over all terrain,” Walker added.

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James Smith, acquisition executive at the U.S. Special Operations Command, has said SOCOM aims to put an operator into an Iron Man-style exoskeleton next year, Federal News Radio reported Friday.

He noted during the National Defense Industrial Association’s annual Special Operations International Conference held last month that the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit is designed to help enhance warfighters’ survivability, lethality, situational awareness and coordination.

TALOS operators are expected to work as a team in efforts to perform special operations with the use of submersible systems, satellites and the exoskeleton.

Smith added that SOCOM looks to use grants and partnership or intermediary agreements to address the command’s technology requirements.