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Cyber

Pentagon’s Project Maven AI Program Already Deploying Capabilities, Looking To Expand

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, May 1st, 2018

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Pentagon’s Project Maven AI Program Already Deploying Capabilities, Looking To Expand

Lt. Col. Garry Floyd (right) discusses Project Maven at Defense Daily's Modular Open Systems Summit. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

The Department of Defense’s flagship artificial intelligence program, Project Maven, has delivered half a dozen capabilities since launching last April with officials looking for new industry and open system opportunities to expand deployment of its algorithms. Lt. Col. Garry Floyd, deputy chief of the Algorithmic Warfare Cross Functional Team, told attendees at a Tuesday Defense Daily event that Project Maven’s AI algorithms for full-motion video data analysis have successfully been deployed to commands in Africa and the Middle East, and…

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