New Los Alamos National Laboratory research found that a quantum neural network can be trained using a small amount of simple data, paving the way for less complex machine learning on quantum computers. Authors of the paper include researchers from LANL, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Germany. Existing quantum computers use long circuits that produce […] Read more
Eric Stein, U.S. Department of State deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Global Information Services, said the department is looking for ways to quickly process Freedom of Information Act requests using automation tools and artificial intelligence. The federal government received over 900,000 new FOIA requests in fiscal year 2022, prompting the Chief FOIA Officers […] Read more
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is conducting a study aimed at detecting rogue nuclear threats using data analytics and machine learning algorithms. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s national laboratory are employing their knowledge of nuclear nonproliferation and combining it with artificial reasoning to monitor materials that can potentially be used for producing nuclear weapons, […] Read more
Booz Allen Hamilton has tapped Latent AI to assist the Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office with deploying machine learning models at the tactical edge. Latent AI offers the Efficient Inference Platform, a tool intended for compressing, compiling and deploying ML models across edge operating systems and hardware. According to Steve Escaravage, […] Read more
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Duality Technologies a multimillion-dollar, phase II Data Protection in Virtual Environments program contract. Duality will integrate new capabilities for privacy-protected machine learning developments under the DPRIVE program into its secure data collaboration platform. The capabilities are expected to allow customers to apply data science and machine learning […] Read more
Robotics company Stratom has booked a U.S. Army contract to build a perimeter safety system for the Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light that would help protect personnel or combatants. The Colorado-based, veteran-owned company announced that it won the contract for the Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light. Stratom’s solution, dubbed Perimeter Safety for Autonomous Vehicles, is a computer system that […] Read more
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has showcased the first iteration of Dioptra, a testbed that addresses cybersecurity matters aimed at machine learning algorithms. Dioptra allows researchers to find the best solution to defend against various cyber threats. According to Harold Booth, the project leader of the National Vulnerability Database at NIST, the testbed […] Read more
Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced that its researchers, working with counterparts in the Department of Veterans Affairs, Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a novel, machine learning-based technique to explore and identify relationships among medical concepts. The new technique involves using electronic health record […] Read more
Ajay Patrikar is the director of machine learning at Noblis, working out of Herndon, Virginia. His areas of expertise include computer vision, deep neural networks, convolutional neural networks, statistical pattern recognition, image and video processing, digital signal processing, audio signal processing, and speech and speaker recognition, according to his LinkedIn profile. Patrikar is a technical […] Read more
San Franciso-headquartered TurbineOne announced that it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research contract to advance its machine learning capabilities and deploy its software with the Air Force. Specifically, the Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX were the offices within the service to make the award, TurbineOne said Friday. In a statement, TurbineOne said […] Read more
