Navy Awards Applied Intuition $25 Million to Put AI Sensor Fusion on Five Destroyers
The production award pairs a fused bridge picture for watchstanders on five Arleigh Burke destroyers with the plumbing to collect shipboard data, retrain AI models ashore and update ships at sea.
The production award pairs a fused bridge picture for watchstanders on five Arleigh Burke destroyers with the plumbing to collect shipboard data, retrain AI models ashore and update ships at sea.
The Navy awarded Applied Intuition a production contract to put AI sensor fusion on five Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the company announced Oct. 22. A company spokesperson put the initial value at $25 million.
The Intelligent Perception System (IPS) detects, tracks and classifies vessels using shipboard cameras and infrared sensors, the release states. Built on the company's Acuity platform, it shows operators overlays and automated alerts for vessels on dangerous trajectories, and it replaces manual transcription from paper logs with machine-readable contact records.
Frequently Asked Questions
What did the Navy award Applied Intuition?
A production contract to deploy AI data infrastructure across the manned and unmanned fleet, starting with its Intelligent Perception System on five Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the company announced Oct. 22. A company spokesperson put the initial value at $25 million, per Tectonic Defense.
What does the Intelligent Perception System do?
It runs real-time detection, tracking and classification on shipboard cameras and infrared sensors, shows overlays and automated alerts for vessels on dangerous trajectories, and keeps machine-readable records of surface contacts, according to the company's release.
How do the ships get new AI models?
Useful sensor clips are sent ashore by satellite, models are retrained there and deployed back over the air without the ship returning to port, Applied wrote in its Oct. 22 blog post.
What was DECK?
The Data Edge Collection Kit, a prototype data-collection program delivered earlier this year that was not integrated with other ship systems so it could move quickly, Applied's Alex Campbell told Tectonic Defense.
Where does Applied Intuition come from?
The Sunnyvale, California, company was founded in 2017 and started in self-driving cars, which remain a major part of its business, Breaking Defense reported.
AI-generated summary, reviewed by an editor. More on our AI guidelines.
Read next — from the Lexicon
Below this point
5 more sections.
Marcus Schuler
Marcus Schuler edits BattlePolicy, a daily defense-technology brief connecting the companies and capabilities behind modern war to the contest among Europe, the US, Russia, and China.