Mary-Louise Hoffman
San Francisco-based analytics software company TurbineOne will undertake a prototype machine learning development project under a multiyear contract from the Department of Defense’s innovation arm.
TurbineOne said Monday the collaboration with the Defense Innovation Unit and DOD’s FutureG and 5G Office will pursue ML applications for geolocation and threat detection.
This award aligns with the company’s move to update its Sidekick frontline perception system to automate data generation for detection model-building work.
The company noted its platform uses the Zero Shot concept of identifying a previously unseen object.
“Industry is still in its early days of AI-driven perception,” TurbineOne CEO Ian Kalin remarked.
He forecasts that such technology will enable queries such as “Show me all the Chinese ships near Taiwan” in the near term and help intelligence analysts ask complex scenario-related questions such as “Which indicators have strong signals that China has started its initial phase of a Taiwanese invasion?”
Kurt Andrews, a principal investigator for the FutureG and 5G Office, said the company’s platform has potential military use cases for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
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