The Veterans Affairs (VA) Department has appointed its first director of artificial intelligence. Dr. Gil Alterovitz – who has degrees from MIT and Carnegie Mellon in electrical, biomedical, and computer engineering – will be based […]
The engineering association, SAE International, recently announced the formation of the ‘SAE G-34 Committee for Applied Artificial Intelligence in Aviation Systems.’ The standards committee has been formed to evaluate applications of AI usage in aviation […]
The Department of Homeland Security has selected eight companies to further develop smart cities prototype technologies for the commercial marketplace under the second phase of its Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Smart Cities Internet of […]
Secretary of the Air Force, Heather Wilson recently announced a contract with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to start a new accelerator which will focus on accelerating artificial intelligence technologies that could improve Air Force […]
Technical advisory services firm American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), Google Cloud, and Ukrainian software company SoftServe have completed a pilot project using artificial intelligence models to detect corrosion and coating breakdown on ships and offshore […]
The US Air Force’s 1st Weather Group (1st WXG) is testing virtual reality training with the NextGen Environmental Weather Training System. The system simulates setting up and assembling a tactical meteorological observation system, the TMQ-53 […]
Researchers from Iowa State University and the University of Florida are working on a new system of “bury-and-forget” soil sensors and remote wireless data-collection networks that could help reduce the nitrogen fertilizer that leaves farm […]
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has established the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics (OEDA) to, “provide [their] customers timely, accurate, and bias-free data and information to prevent and remedy unlawful employment discrimination, and […]
Dubai Municipality recently launched a smart training center that provides hands-on training in urban planning and building supervision and control using the Virtual Reality (VR) Environment. The Smart Training Hub, supervised by the municipality’s Geographic […]
Recent crimes involving drones have heightened the need for the study of drone forensics, which enables investigators to retrieve photos and videos taken by the drone, along with GPS coordinates of flight paths and user […]
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