The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled a three-year competition that seeks to develop machine-learning platforms designed to allow civilian and military wireless devices to gain access to the electromagnetic spectrum.

DARPA launched the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge at the two-day International Wireless Communications Expo that kicked off Wednesday in Las Vegas, the agency said Wednesday.

SC2 seeks to equip radios with machine-learning and artificial intelligence functions in order for the devices to collaborate with other types of radios in spectrum environments.

“DARPA Challenges have traditionally rewarded teams that dominate their competitors, but when it comes to making the most of the electromagnetic spectrum, the team that shares most intelligently is going to win,” said Paul Tilghman, SC2 program manager at DARPA’s microsystems technology office.

DARPA will start the competition in 2017 and will award a prize of $2 million to the winning team in early 2020.

The agency also plans to build a wireless testbed for the challenge in order to allow researchers to assess spectrum-sharing techniques and algorithms for radio platforms.

A Chinese national has entered a guilty plea in California for his involvement in a conspiracy to steal military technical information through intrusions into U.S. defense contractors’ computer networks and transmit the stolen data to China.

The Justice Department said in a release posted Wednesday Su Bin, a China-based businessman in the aerospace and aviation sectors, admitted to stealing data related to the C-16 transport aircraft and other fighter planes.

Su Bin — also known as Stephen Subin and Stephen Su — filed his plea agreement with U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder for the Central District of California Wednesday.

According to the agreement, Su conspired with two China-based individuals between October 2008 and March 2014 to breach into the computer systems of Boeing and other contractors in order to access data in the U.S. Munitions List and sell the data for financial gain.

Su agreed to be transferred to the U.S. in February following his arrest in Canada in 2014.

“Cyber crime represents one of the most serious threats to our national security,” said U.S. Attorney Eileen Decker of the Central District of California.

“Today’s guilty plea and conviction demonstrate that these criminals can be held accountable no matter where they are located in the world and that we are deeply committed to protecting our sensitive data in order to keep our nation safe.”

The cyber division within FBI’s Los Angeles field office continues to investigate the case in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force’s office of special investigations.

Snyder is scheduled to issue her ruling on Su’s case in July.

Su faces a five-year prison sentence and a fine of $250,000, according to DOJ.

Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker has appointed Kiersten Todt, former managing partner and president of Liberty Group Ventures, as executive director for the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity.

The Commerce Department said Wednesday Todt will work with DOC’s National Institute of Standards and Technology and help the commission devise near- and long-term strategies to secure public and private computer networks.

“Kiersten’s experience in both the public and private sectors make her uniquely qualified to assist the commission as it develops and recommends an agenda to enhance the nation’s cybersecurity,” noted Tom Donilon, chair of the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity.

Todt most recently led Liberty Group Ventures’ efforts to help clients develop risk and crisis management platforms in the cyber, homeland security, infrastructure, higher education and emergency management areas.

Before that, she held positions at Good Harbor Consulting and Business Executives for National Security as well as served as consultant at government-backed Sandia National Laboratories and an adjunct professor at Stanford University.

Her past work also includes stints at the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, former Vice President Al Gore’s domestic policy office and the Office of National Drug Control Policy.