JON HARPER
A screen displays a map of a simulated conflict during a joint training exercise with NATO partners April 28, 2023 in Blue Ash, Ohio. The Air Force is working to harness emerging information and communications technology and artificial intelligence technologies to provide targeting and decision support with the speed, adaptability, and resilience needed to fight in a highly contested environment. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Shane Hughes)
The Department of the Air Force released a presolicitation Tuesday as it looks for new target-tracking capabilities fueled by AI and other cutting-edge technologies.
The Air Force plans to spend approximately $99 million on the multiyear innovation effort and multiple awards are anticipated, according to the announcement.
The department is seeking research to “design, develop, test, evaluate, and deliver innovative technologies and techniques for Next Generation Target Tracking architectures, which exploit a wide array of data sources and leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Machine Inferencing (MI) algorithms in a High Performance Computing (HPC) enabled framework,” per the presolicitation.
That includes 3D pixel, vector, and point cloud processing and accelerations, as well as methods to use AI and machine learning for “identification, classification and pattern learning that inference over information from multiple data modalities” such as open-source intelligence, signals intelligence, imagery and geospatial intelligence.
The Air Force Research Lab, which will oversee the effort, also seeks tools to aid the ingestion and processing of GPS, non-GPS, inertial navigation system, radio frequency identification trackers, or telematic-based data into “traffic tracks that can measure utilization of lines of communication,” according to the announcement.
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