“The Defense Department’s (DOD) secretive artificial intelligence task force called Project Maven is moving to a new home within the Pentagon’s intelligence and security apparatus. Now Defense officials are looking for an industry partner to manage the transition and provide ongoing support for the program…
“Project Maven, formally known as the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team (AWCFT), was established in 2017 to ‘accelerate the DOD’s integration of big data and machine learning,’ then-Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work wrote in a memo. Maven’s focus is to apply computer vision algorithms to tag objects identified in images or videos captured by surveillance aircraft or reconnaissance satellites. The program received national attention after Google Inc., one of several technology companies participating in the program, publicly withdrew amid uproar from employees about the ‘weaponization’ of artificial intelligence (AI)…”
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