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Warriors : Octo ' s battlespace ready AI solutions are making warfighters safer
Smarter Warriors : Octo ' s battlespace ready AI solutions are making warfighters safer
is to have the very best technologies on the battlefield and saving lives .
These ex-military employees work with an ensemble of AI luminaries and technology pioneers to form a formidable foundation of expertise . They , in turn , collectively partner with current military personnel to devise and build the beneficial real-world technologies America ’ s elite military units need and benefit from .
Octo builds its technologies during intense periods of research and development in its groundbreaking oLabs before striving to get them out in the field , acquired by the Department of Defence or taken up by the wider intelligence community .
Established targets Octo ’ s ‘ Hatteras project ’ is a Machine Learning Operations ( MLOps ) platform .
Machine Learning models aren ’ t static . Their performance degrades in inference mode at various rates and for various reasons .
Rob explains : “ Hatteras is designed not only to make data preparation and model training simple but also to monitor model performance in operational environments . On the battlefield , it ’ s critical that troops have the ability to monitor performance of the ML models they ’ re using to enhance in-mission situational awareness . A poorly performing model could mean life or death on the battlefield .”
Octo is also playing an important role in the development of IVAS – Integrated Visual Augmentation System – which is being rolled out at Fort Belvoir , Virginia for the US Army . This multi-billion dollar programme takes a Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality goggle and militarises it , adding new sensing
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