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Iu, Nswc Crane Partnering to Bolster National Defense Through 'smart Tech' Agreement
Capt. James Elder, commanding officer at the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (left), and Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing dean Raj Acharya sign the cooperative research and development agreement.
Credit: NSWC Crane
Indiana University (IU) and the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) have entered into a collaborative research agreement to improve military sensor technology.
Scientists at the IU School of Informatics and Computing will help the Crane, IN, naval base integrate machine learning and artificial intelligence into existing military technology. The collaboration will apply machine-learning models to the massive datasets collected by naval technology, such as drones and radar arrays, to deliver actionable intelligence to human operators.
A typical naval monitoring system uses more than 100 sensors to detect infrared light, microwave emissions, and other phenomena.
"With sensor technology growing so advanced and proliferating so quickly, human operators are unable to keep up with the information coming in," says Robert Cruise at NSWC Crane. "Increasingly, we need to augment human operators' intelligence with artificial intelligence."
Cruise says sensor technology strengthened by machine learning could identify objects based on data collected by drones or assess the potential danger of an incoming projectile.
In the first phase of the study, IU researchers will use test data drawn from controlled sensor experiments at NSWC to determine the accuracy of their system's interpretation, and later they will be granted access to actual data from naval sensors.
From IU Bloomington Newsroom
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