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Army Testing Facial Recognition in Child-Care Centers
Live video feeds of daycare centers are common, but the Army wants to take their kid-monitoring capabilities to the next level. Under a new pilot program being rolled out at a Fort Jackson, S.C. child-care center, the military is looking for service providers to layer commercially available facial recognition and artificial intelligence (AI) over existing closed-circuit television video feeds to improve childcare and cut costs. The request for bids on the project, called Installations of the Future: Technology Pilot for Child Development Center, explained that the CCTV feeds aren't constantly monitored by humans and the pilot program will explore whether AI could fill in the gaps. "Video analytic software provides the added security of continual computer monitoring used as an addition to the human CCTV monitoring," the request for bid said. "Moreover, it provides instant notifications to staff on a wide range of important AR 190-3 monitoring parameters as events occur."