The Army working on a battlefield AI 'teammate' for soldiers - FedScoop

The Army is working to deploy artificial intelligence on the battlefield to detect and classify real-time threats for soldiers in the years to come. The new systems, called the Aided Threat Recognition from Mobile Cooperative and Autonomous Sensors (ATR-MCAS), will scan and classify imagery from sensors that can be mounted on vehicles, aerial coverage and autonomous vehicles that will help soldiers recognize incoming threats. It is a tool that Lt. Col. Chris Lowrance, head of autonomous systems with the Army's AI Task Force, said will act as a "teammate" and reduce "cognitive load" by alerting soldiers of incoming threats. Soldiers in vehicles or holding mobile devices will be able to customize the feed of data that the ATR-MCAS will show and alert them to, Lowrance said. For example, a soldier driving a tank could set a laptop to only display images of enemy tanks when the computer-vision system detects them.