An AI-powered network could save the US Navy billions of dollars

The United States Navy is reportedly expanding their ocean combat network, known as the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES), to seamlessly connect their ships, submarines, and on-shore locations using artificial intelligence (AI). The hope is that CANES will reduce the number of sailors required to maintain operations, thus potentially saving the Navy billions of dollars over years of use. By 2020, the Navy hopes to deploy CANES on 190 vessels and Maritime Operations Centers. "We are very interested in artificial intelligence being able to help us better than it is today," Rear Adm. Danelle Barrett, Navy Cyber Security Division Director, told Warrior. "We want to trust a machine and also look at AI in terms of how we use it against adversaries."