The second phase of funded proposals has been announced for the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) Intelligent Ship competition to revolutionise military decision-making, mission planning and automation.<\/p>\n
Phase 2 of Intelligent Ship, run by DASA on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), sought novel technologies for use by the military in 2030 and beyond.<\/p>\n
Nine innovative projects have been funded, sharing 3m.<\/p>\n
With a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), the projects will support the evaluation and demonstration of a range of human-machine teams and their integration with an evaluation environment. Phase 2 will develop AI for wider application across defence platforms.<\/p>\n
Julia Tagg, Dstl Project Technical Authority said:<\/p>\n
The Intelligent Ship project aims to demonstrate ways of bringing together multiple AI applications to make collective decisions, with and without human operator judgement.<\/p>\n
We hope that the use of AI in the future will lead to timely, more informed and trusted decision-making and planning, within complex operating and data environments. With applications for the Royal Navy and more broadly across defence, we are very excited to see what these Phase 2 projects might bring.<\/p>\n
Rachel Solomons, DASA Delivery Manager said:<\/p>\n
DASA is focussed on finding innovation to benefit the defence and security of the UK.<\/p>\n
Artificial Intelligence and human-machine teaming are such innovations, and by taking this competition to Phase 2 we hope to help find solutions that could make a real difference to future decision making in defence.<\/p>\n
The companies awarded funding for Phase 2 are:<\/p>\n
Examples of proposals funded include an intelligent system for vessel power and propulsion machinery control to support the decision-making of the engineering crew, and an innovative mission AI prototype Agent for Decision-Making to support decision making during pre-mission preparation, mission execution and post mission analysis.<\/p>\n
Phase one contracts were announced last year.<\/p>\n
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