Army researchers seek to provide more data to soldiers through two projects

The U.S. Army Research Lab made breakthroughs this summer on two neural networks projects that could assist commanders' decision-making on the battlefield and provide soldiers' health information through fibers in their uniform. The advancements come as the U.S. military is preparing for data-driven battle, in which gobs of data are transmitted across the battlespace, processed and used in a commander's decision-making. Neural networks are a combination of algorithms that work together to recognize patterns in data through a process similar to that of the human brain. The first project is working to provide a tool to battle commanders that quantifies uncertainty in data analysis using neural networks. Researchers associated with the Army Research Lab created a new framework for neural network processing that would use artificial intelligence to provide confidence ratings.