Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Army’s artificial intelligence accelerator, Project Linchpin, is working with open source software firm Red Hat to unveil an initial version of its AI development architecture as early as next week, product lead Bharat Patel said.
The architecture, in essence, is a set of common technical standards — Application Programming Interfaces (API), data labeling protocols, and so on — to ensure that AIs built for the Army by different vendors are all compatible.
“We are defining some of these APIs and some of these architectures with Red Hat now, [with] an open source project being dropped end of November,” Patel told the Red Hat Government Symposium here on Tuesday. “This is going to be one of our first attempts at a public-private partnership.”
By creating a level playing field for competition among innovative companies of different sizes, this “open architecture” should allow the Army to use whichever algorithms it likes best into its suite of AI software, fully confident the different products will work together, Patel and other officials explained in public comments and interviews with Breaking Defense.
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