By all accounts 2019 will bring significant expansion in the use and development of artificial intelligence by the U.S. federal government. Notwithstanding some well-publicized rejections by industry of the use of their AI technologies for offensive military and surveillance applications, the federal government remains a major supporter of and customer for AI technologies. Below we outline some of the current federal government players in the AI space and their plans for the coming year.
DARPA -
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is the research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, initially developed to compete with the Soviet Union’s technological developments in the Cold War era. Through a combination of innovative contracting methods and cooperative efforts, DARPA aims to include non-traditional defense contractors in the development of technologies with potential military applications.
Originally published in Law360 on February 22, 2019.
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